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		<title>A Farm on Every Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I wander around my central Washington, DC neighborhoods, I pass by empty lots on nearly every other block. Sometimes, these are where houses once fell victim to fires, uncompleted construction projects, or general disrepair, and sometimes where property owners have held onto them in the hopes that they can eventually turn a profit on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikcooke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9015372&amp;post=577&amp;subd=erikcooke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much information is enough?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 16:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Originally posted at The SufficiencyProject.net] Just because we have easy access to fast internet connections, Google, and an information-driven and information-obsessed economy, does not mean that we, each of us, need to be the nexus for all of it. How long do you take to read a book, article, or newspaper? Do you ever stop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikcooke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9015372&amp;post=572&amp;subd=erikcooke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t need&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t need&#8230; Permission More books, more sources, more information Another day to think it over More brain power To have had a better upbringing, richer parents, more privilege A degree from a better school, or even a higher degree To wait until the kids are grown up, or until your spouse gets on board [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikcooke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9015372&amp;post=564&amp;subd=erikcooke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So it begins&#8230;the Sufficiency Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happened in the most ordinary location. I was pleasantly trolling the aisles at the grocery store when the pre-sliced beets smacked me upside the head. Well, not literally. But, I was pulled out of a grocery trance when the sliced beets in the produce section grabbed my attention. Like a bolt: Who needs their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikcooke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9015372&amp;post=557&amp;subd=erikcooke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Acknowledgments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was struck by an interaction my wife and I had this evening. I was cocooned at the desk and she sweetly checked to make sure I was still breathing. &#8220;You&#8217;re actually reading the acknowledgments? That&#8217;s so cute.&#8221; &#8220;I always read them!&#8221; These particular acknowledgments were to Paul Brass, James Coleman, Jon Elster, the Ostroms, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikcooke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9015372&amp;post=553&amp;subd=erikcooke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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