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		<title>The indigenous forester of Smutsville</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Pedro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous trees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was staying in Wilderness over the holidays, a friend took me to meet William Pedro of Smutsville township, Sedgefield, who has for the last 15 years been running a successful indigenous tree nursery tucked away in the forest &#8230; <a href="http://lepage.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-indigenous-forester-of-smutsville/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=98230&amp;post=379&amp;subd=lepage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhist economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ecocide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently done a couple of public talks on &#8216;Buddhism and economics&#8217;, explaining how the absence of values from contemporary discussions of economics undermines human life and dignity. While people tend to think of religions as being either Christianity, &#8230; <a href="http://lepage.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/buddhist-economics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=98230&amp;post=357&amp;subd=lepage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in Business Day, 25 November 2011 ‘The nuclear path will compound centralisation and elitism, and necessitate importing skilled foreign labour’ IS SA about to multiply and repeat the R40bn arms-deal debacle that has haunted our politics for more than &#8230; <a href="http://lepage.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/business-day-stop-giving-the-government-a-free-pass-on-nuclear-power/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lepage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=98230&amp;post=352&amp;subd=lepage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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