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		<title>Enthralled to Finance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t have to be captive to the financial institutions, but we will continue to be so long as we try and use money as a substitute for security. This requires attention: the reason we are controlled by &#8220;finance&#8221; is because we have given our lives to finance, meaning we have tried to use money [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=933&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to a Future: Flat Sharing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my entire working life the conventional wisdom seems to have been that only a mug would pay their full share of taxes, and that it was every citizen’s duty to reduce their responsibilities in this area to a minimum. Those who succeeded in paying the least amount of taxes have generally been lauded as heroes. It’s a shame [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=822&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to a Future: The Mind of Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To support super-democracy, super-security and build a thriving super-economy we to need to make substantial investments in our societies. To make those changes to our infrastructure we will have to leverage the strengths of private enterprise to help us reach our public policy objectives. We struggle with the interface between public initiatives and private enterprise, and the debate tends to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=819&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to a Future: LOVE Thy Neighbour</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we are to make the urgent progress that we need to on The Path to a Future, we need to do it together. Areas of blight and conflict will be a drag on all of our progress, because they will suck resources away from more effective uses. The people in conflict are unlikely to participate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=808&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#OCCUPY the Ballot Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conundrum of the Occupy movement's "missing list of demands" is the key to understanding what has to be done.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=846&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: The Indian Highway problem.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in the waiting room of a garage the other day with my son, while I scribbled notes for this book. I reached the end of a section and, looking for inspiration, I turned to him and asked him what problem in the world he thought we should think about next. “The Indian highways.” was his response. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=815&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More money is not the answer</title>
		<link>http://standardsoflife.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/more-money-is-not-the-answer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We need to occupy our communities and demand less money, rather than occupying corporate spaces and demand more money.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=832&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to a Future: The Digital Kimono</title>
		<link>http://standardsoflife.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/tptaf-digital-kimono/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most shocking developments today is the proliferation of digital surveillance and identity profiling, with little or scant regard for the protection of individual liberties or the sanctity of our society as a whole. What makes this particularly galling, is that despite there being so much wellrespected, high quality and widely read literature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=559&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to a Future: Middle East Peace</title>
		<link>http://standardsoflife.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/tptaf-middle-east-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The touchstone or the tombstone of modern politics, depending on your perspective. Finding a solution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, and for peace in the region more generally, has been the avowed intention of many a politician, inside and outside the region, for many a year. But as I write this, the arc of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=554&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: Politicians!</title>
		<link>http://standardsoflife.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/tptaf-politicians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 08:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics has become a dirty word, and politicians the definition of an untrustworthy profession. It’s not hard to see why, from blatant corruption to obvious incompetence the world is littered with good reasons to distrust anyone linked with politics. Yet everywhere we still yearn for effective action, and nowhere more so than in the political [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=547&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LIFE SPAN &#8211; 2011.08.20 &#8211; Europe&#8217;s Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special edition of LIFESPAN : A LIFE Plan for Europe.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=774&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: Economics 001</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy, and implicitly the development of wealth, is a core issue that too often suffocates the debate about our options for change. Many of us come to the table with assumptions about the relationship between wealth and prosperity. We need to reevaluate these assumptions if we are to develop solutions to our problems. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=541&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LIFE SPAN &#8211; 2011.08.10 &#8211; Fire, Riots &amp; Remedies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIFE SPAN 2011.08.10 Situational Policy Analysis &#38; News from LIFE Subscribe at lifespan@standardsoflife.org Situation &#8211; No Growth without Fire The industrial world is trapped, surrounded by a ring of fire. The only way forward for them is to &#8220;grow their economies&#8221;, but they are finding that they cannot grow. They cannot grow for two reasons, a double [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=738&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief History of TEA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Total Economic Awareness (TEA) is used in this article to describe a philosophical framework, adopted by many people today, in which every activity is perceived as being of monetary value. It is not entirely new, King Midas had a touch of it, but it has never been so broadly adopted as it is now that it has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=730&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: The Great Gamble</title>
		<link>http://standardsoflife.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/tptaf-the-great-gamble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We, as a species, are engaged in the greatest gamble of our brief existence. The outcome will affect all of us, but not everyone has a place at the table nor is everyone playing with the same hand. The gamble we are taking is embodied in two questions. Questions we have to answer if we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=527&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: Two Words about the Destination</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable prosperity. It’s a simple description that will not get embellished much in the course of this book, hopefully because it is self explanatory. But it is worth taking a moment to clarify what is not included in that description. It is not utopian. It does not suggest equality of outcome. It does not speak [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=522&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: Congruity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congruity, [con-gru-ity]: simultaneous,mutual reinforcement in proximity and extremity. Congruity is our word used to describe the process of building The Path. It symbolizes the unification, interdependence and broad reach that our actions must have, because although we can accurately describe The Path as linear, going from peace to security to sustainable prosperity, we will have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=517&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: Landscape Lessons</title>
		<link>http://standardsoflife.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/tptaf-landscape-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 07:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what can we glean from this brief review of the features (conflict, traditions and morality) we must navigate on our path? • First, all those features do exist and must be navigated. We cannot wish them away. • Second, they have formed naturally. That is to say that they represent some basically natural aspect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=510&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: The Quagmires of Morality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 08:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most dangerous of the landscape features that need to be navigated are the bogs and swamps of the lowlands. These seemingly flat and vegetated expenses are the premature terminus of many a journey. Offering the delusion of easy passage, their self-reflecting pools and slippery sod are the perfect traps for fools. Seen from a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=504&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Economics paper published!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have just completed our paper showing a practical path to reaching a sustainable state. This paper brings together various aspects of the Standards of LIFE to focus specifically on why and how universal services are the key to saving our environment. This is an important document &#8211; please read it. Armed with the knowledge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=725&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: The Mountains of Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Towering over the landscape we can also see the great icy peaks of mountains formed out of the chance encounter of great land masses, rising up faster than the natural forces of erosion can soften their edges. Their peaks are cold because they rise up to where the air is thin, and the clouds gather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=500&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: Valleys of Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 08:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most recognizable features of our landscape today are the valleys of conflict that cuts across the view, trapping people and resources into separated schisms covered by whirling fog. These are the conflicts which obsess our headline writers and dominate our news. They are not most people’s everyday experience of life, but they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=497&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LIFE SPAN &#8211; 2011.05.01</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 03:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIFE SPAN 2011.05.01 - First Edition of the new LIFE newsletter - subscribe now!
Situation - Nu-clear Power. Policy - No Alternative to Voting. Analysis - The inflation tiger is out of it's cage and walking around the world economy with a gaggle of central bankers holding onto it's tail.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=661&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Path to A Future: The Landscape of the Path</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before we build our Path we should understand the nature of the landscape we intend to cross: the state of the world today. We need a clear view of reality, so we can determine the line our Path should take. We live in a world that is still ravaged by many conflicts, and where the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=491&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wake up!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep-walking would be a particularly tragic way to go. After all that evolving, developing and civilizing, to just sleep walk into oblivion would hardly seem to do those millennia justice. The good news is that there some fairly sharp jabs to the collective ribcage happening, and there seems to be some awakening. America makes for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=standardsoflife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5429898&amp;post=638&amp;subd=standardsoflife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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