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		<title>Clean Water Scarce for 3 Billion People Worldwide</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/10/08/569/clean-water-scarce-for-3-billion-people-worldwide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clean, safe drinking water is scarce for over 3 billion people across the world. At least 1 billion literally never have access to clean, safe drinking water, putting them at constant risk of severe thirst-related ill health effects, infectious diseases or toxic contamination. Over 100 countries face either sporadic or chronic crisis-level problems related to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>53 Million in ‘Emerging Markets’ Plunged into Poverty by Great Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/08/15/545/53-million-in-%e2%80%98emerging-markets%e2%80%99-plunged-into-poverty-by-great-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A World Bank study has projected that the global financial crisis and resulting recession will plunge some 53 million people across "emerging markets" —like China and India— into absolute poverty, in 2009 alone. In China, tens of millions of people have lost jobs related to the export-dependent manufacturing sector. ]]></description>
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		<title>Diversify Wheat Crops to Prevent Fungus-induced Global Harvest Collapse (discussion)</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/07/08/484/diversify-wheat-crops-to-prevent-fungus-induced-global-harvest-collapse-discussion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/07/08/484/diversify-wheat-crops-to-prevent-fungus-induced-global-harvest-collapse-discussion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A crop-borne fungus that targets wheat, named Ug99 because it was first identified in Uganda in 1999, has become one of the primary threats to global food security. Newfound virulence in the evolving stem-rust strain suggests the fungus could destroy as much as 80% of the world’s most widely grown crop: wheat. ]]></description>
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		<title>Global Climate Destabilization is Major Security &amp; Economic Threat</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/03/09/337/global-climate-destabilization-is-major-security-economic-threat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/03/09/337/global-climate-destabilization-is-major-security-economic-threat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building the Green Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[African monsoon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new administration in Washington, DC, has taken notice: climate change is not about a mild 1º increase in temperature on any given day; it is about a sweeping destabilization of global climate patterns, which could undermine the entire layout of civilization across the world. Building the infrastructure necessary for implementing and sustaining a green energy economy is a security priority in this new environment. ]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing the Rainbow: Wall St. Gambled on Fictional Expansion-potential</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/03/02/339/chasing-the-rainbow-wall-st-gambled-on-fictional-expansion-potential/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/03/02/339/chasing-the-rainbow-wall-st-gambled-on-fictional-expansion-potential/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hardest thing to understand about the current, and deepening, economic crisis, is that it came about largely because some of the most experienced, well-staffed and prestigious financial institutions in the world gambled on untenable projects of unlimited expansion, without ever producing sound mathematics to back up the projections. Philosophical exuberance replaced philosophical underpinnings, and the dynamo of financial speculation greased the wheels of commerce in a way that masked underlying shortfalls. ]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Competitive-Lending Bank Could Be Used to Spur Credit</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/02/13/332/federal-competitive-lending-bank-could-be-used-to-spur-credit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/02/13/332/federal-competitive-lending-bank-could-be-used-to-spur-credit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is talk of a major overhaul of the US banking system, with some analysts and economists saying the situation is so dire that widespread "nationalization" —or government takeover— will be necessary, and others saying there needs to be a bad-debt takeover bank, that takes on the huge financial risk of major banks' "toxic assets", so that the banks can "clear their books" and begin to lend. But another possibility looms as the likely more appealing option: the creation of a Federal Competitive-Lending Bank (FCLB)... ]]></description>
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		<title>Resilient Complexity versus Exposure to Entropy</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/01/31/320/resilient-complexity-versus-exposure-to-entropy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/01/31/320/resilient-complexity-versus-exposure-to-entropy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building the Green Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hyper-convergence paradigm]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/?p=320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All systems fail, all organized interactions are vulnerable to entropy, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. And at best, we are but stardust, a beautiful yet haunting explanation of our origins. Infused with light. Doomed to shadow. Whatever your spiritual beliefs, in the mortal physical realm, entropy is always interfering. The intellect often uses convenient conceptualizations to feel it is better understood or more secure, more real and lasting, than it is. ]]></description>
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		<title>Toward a &#8216;Transactional&#8217; Cosmology: Web Dynamics for the Information Age</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/01/06/305/toward-a-transactional-cosmology-web-dynamics-for-the-information-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2009/01/06/305/toward-a-transactional-cosmology-web-dynamics-for-the-information-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bucky Fuller]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/?p=305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Each information transaction, sometimes as exemplary, sometimes as single element added to a sweeping aggregate of historical sway, is a precedent, which can motivate, influence or redirect the push of future happenstance. And, we must take note, every transaction involving matter or energy contains information, traces of a history of its coming into being, and generates a "footprint", a trace of its appearance and its transition into something beyond the transactional moment. ]]></description>
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		<title>India Impacted by Rise in Food Insecurity Worldwide, Deteriorating Economic Conditions</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/12/21/296/india-impacted-by-rise-in-food-insecurity-worldwide-deteriorating-economic-conditions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/12/21/296/india-impacted-by-rise-in-food-insecurity-worldwide-deteriorating-economic-conditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are over 230 million people suffering from hunger or undernourishment in India. No other nation has so many people suffering chronic malnutrition, and the undernourished in India represent 27% of the worldwide hunger-stricken population. While India's economy develops and the potential for an expanded middle class takes root, the total number of Indians going hungry has risen, despite the overall percentage of undernourished, as part of the whole population, having been reduced in recent years. ]]></description>
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		<title>Cholera Epidemic Spreads in Zimbabwe, as Health Services Collapse (video)</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/12/13/271/cholera-epidemic-spreads-in-zimbabwe-as-health-services-collapse-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/12/13/271/cholera-epidemic-spreads-in-zimbabwe-as-health-services-collapse-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The spread of cholera due to Zimbabwe’s foundering hygienic infrastructure is reaching crisis proportions. UNICEF is calling for an emergency fund of $17.5 million to fight the spread of cholera in Zimbabwe, calling the outbreak “a cholera crisis of unprecedented levels”. With 13,960 cases already declared and an estimated 589 dead to date, the UN warns upwards of 60,000 people could become infected if drastic and immediate action is not taken to contain the epidemic. ]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Downturn Cannot Be Allowed to Slow Shift to Green Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/11/25/216/economic-downturn-cannot-be-allowed-to-slow-shift-to-green-resources/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/11/25/216/economic-downturn-cannot-be-allowed-to-slow-shift-to-green-resources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue is not, as so many would like to believe, whether carbon-based fuels are affordable to the end-user. They are not. The total costs per gallon of gasoline are estimated at more than $11, covered by government subsidies, public-private research funding, tax incentives, military spending, public health funding, and funds devoted to cleaning up the ill effects of pollution. Capitalist markets need not be dependent on unsustainable excesses in resource use, but we are in the current global economic crunch, because they have been. ]]></description>
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		<title>5 Million May Be at Risk of Starvation in Zimbabwe, Says WFP</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/11/14/209/5-million-may-be-at-risk-of-starvation-in-zimbabwe-says-wfp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/11/14/209/5-million-may-be-at-risk-of-starvation-in-zimbabwe-says-wfp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denver Lessing</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that shortfalls in food aid to Zimbabwe could leave as many as 5.1 million people at risk of starvation by early next year. The southern African nation, beset by incomprehensible rates of inflation and an agricultural crisis, is now facing what may be the single most severe food security crisis in the world. WFP has made the announcement in conjunction with a cut in aid to Zimbabwe, due to lack of funding and a failed drive to raise funds to increase aid to the troubled state. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Future is Not Simplicity, but Complexity, Better Understood &amp; Managed</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/11/12/200/the-future-is-not-simplicity-but-complexity-better-understood-managed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complexity is not an outlandish tendency of troubled souls and pretentious intellects; it is the basic state of nature as we know it. The more we discover, the more certain we can be of this: even elemental particles are less solid than they seem, behaving like tightly bound arrangements of spherical bodies —irreducible monads—, they apparently achieve this physics by behaving like something they are not (now widely accepted in particle physics, "string theory" proposes that elemental particles are actually 2-dimensional vibrating "strings" whose vibration causes them to interact as if they were not strings at all). ]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Volatility is Not Gain or Loss, but Volatility</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/10/13/203/the-nature-of-volatility-is-not-gain-or-loss-but-volatility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA/Dow) today had its single biggest day of gains in history, climbing 936 points. It could be a good sign, that on Friday the market "established a bottom", but it's important to remember: the nature of volatility is not that it is ripe for gain or ripe for loss, but that it is volatility, and one's will and judgment are not always as relevant as one would like. ]]></description>
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		<title>US Supreme Court Rules EPA Must Regulate Carbon Emissions, Next Move: Greening Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/10/09/174/us-supreme-court-rules-epa-must-regulate-carbon-emissions-next-move-greening-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Supreme Court, in the spring of 2007, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate carbon emissions. That ruling could now be the basis for legislation moving the nation toward a fully combustion-free economy. ]]></description>
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		<title>US Recession Takes Root as Job-loss, Housing, Banking, Energy Crises Converge to Slow Growth</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/07/21/189/us-recession-takes-root/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CafeSentido.com :: The United States is firmly in the thrall of a banking meltdown, in which the normal structures, the means of measuring performance, and the meaning of debt-holdings, are all out of balance. More than one Wall Street firm or investment bank has written of tens of billions of dollars in uncollectable debt. Financier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food price crisis: more complex than first thought &amp; putting food beyond the reach of the planet&#8217;s poor</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/07/19/188/food-price-crisis-more-complex-than-first-thought-and-putting-food-beyond-the-reach-of-the-planets-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food prices are skyrocketing. Initially, many put the blame on the rising demand of biofuels in the transport sector, but bio-ethanol is far from the only thing driving up food prices. New diets, soaring oil prices and climate change are all in the complex soup of explanations behind the recent development putting food beyond the reach of the planet’s poor. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Generational Challenge to Repower America: Text of Gore Energy Speech, as Prepared</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/07/18/186/a-generational-challenge-to-repower-america-text-of-gore-energy-speech-as-prepared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen: There are times in the history of our nation when our very way of life depends upon dispelling illusions and awakening to the challenge of a present danger. In such moments, we are called upon to move quickly and boldly to shake off complacency, throw aside old habits and rise, clear-eyed and alert, to the necessity of big changes. Those who, for whatever reason, refuse to do their part must either be persuaded to join the effort or asked to step aside. This is such a moment. ]]></description>
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		<title>Al Gore Calls on U.S. to Produce All Energy from Renewables within 10 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/07/17/184/al-gore-calls-on-us-to-produce-all-energy-from-renewables-within-10-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former US vice-president Al Gore is calling on the nation to marshal its resources and divorce itself from the combustible fuels economy. Gore says the US can produce all its energy requirements from renewable resources within 10 years, if concerted action is taken. The bold initiative is designed to drive debate on the topic and move discussions about how to deal with high fuel prices toward the new opportunity they provide for funding renewable infrastructure development. ]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Chief Says US Congress Should Legislate to Limit Carbon Emissions</title>
		<link>http://www.casavaria.com/hotspring/2008/07/12/169/epa-chief-says-us-congress-should-legislate-to-limit-carbon-emissions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.E. Robertson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chairman of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stephen Johnson, says the Clean Air Act is "ill-suited" to fighting the greenhouse effect, and that Congress should pass laws mandating the regulation of carbon emissions, with global warming in mind. The move may lead to a more comprehensive regulatory regime, but as the Guardian newspaper notes: "Last year's Massachusetts v. EPA Supreme Court ruling had found that greenhouse gases can be regulated under the U.S. Clean Air Act. The decision pressured the EPA to reconsider its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new cars and trucks." ]]></description>
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