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		<title>A final word &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/a-final-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[wellsharp has covered a lot of ground since November 2007, summarising and reflecting upon the work of many insightful people. We’ve learned a lot from writing wellsharp; hopefully it provides some interesting food for thought for you too. But it’s &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/a-final-word/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=871&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building social capacity – not social capital</title>
		<link>http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/building-social-capacity-%e2%80%93-not-social-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>parker62</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[James Coleman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social capacity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it’s the need for social economy, the importance of civil society, the potential benefits of deliberative democracy, the means to address climate change, or the idea of ecological citizenship, we consistently find a common theme at the root of &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/building-social-capacity-%e2%80%93-not-social-capital/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=849&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Organisation and action for social change</title>
		<link>http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/organisation-and-action-for-social-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[David]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hannah Arendt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political theorist Hannah Arendt wrote a brilliant commentary on a biography of Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-German socialist revolutionary murdered in Berlin in 1919. I came across it recently in a collection of Arendt’s essays, and I just want to note &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/organisation-and-action-for-social-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=843&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questions for activists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently checked out the Thwink.org website again. Since David first wrote about their work, they have continued to develop their ideas. They have some good ones too. Sometimes I find the approach a bit too simplistically rationalist, but there&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/questions-for-activists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=838&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The rebirth of social democracy</title>
		<link>http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/the-rebirth-of-social-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[social justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraternity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inequality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2006 Clive Hamilton wrote an obituary on the “Death of social democracy.” His view was that sustained increases in living standards for the great bulk of working people have so transformed social conditions as to render social democracy redundant &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/the-rebirth-of-social-democracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=835&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming the growth mania through the social economy</title>
		<link>http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/overcoming-the-growth-mania-through-the-social-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 03:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>parker62</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Giorgos Kallis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[growth obsession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herman Daly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ivan Illich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jordi Garcia Jane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limits to growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yves Cochet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In his splendidly provocative Tools for conviviality, Ivan Illich (1973) describes the pursuit of growth as a general affliction of industrial society. He writes that “While evidence shows that more of the same leads to utter defeat, nothing less than &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/overcoming-the-growth-mania-through-the-social-economy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=825&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Sector holds the key to successful action on climate change</title>
		<link>http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/the-third-sector-holds-the-key-to-successful-action-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>parker62</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Hale is a former environmental policy adviser to the UK government from 2002-2006 who now directs the think tank Green Alliance. In his 2010 paper on “The new politics of climate change”, Hale articulates the reasons for the present &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/the-third-sector-holds-the-key-to-successful-action-on-climate-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=818&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing for the future: civil society, adult education, and Transition Towns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 22:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Institutional Change and the Politics of Reform: The Great Transition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Fidrmuc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[László Bruszt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liefelong learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nauro F Campos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social capital]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The massive upheavals and traumas that befell the nations of the former Soviet-bloc following the collapse of the Communist regimes provided a kind of &#8216;natural experiment&#8217; for social scientists: their different experiences and outcomes can be compared, contrasted, and lessons &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/preparing-for-the-future/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=811&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warning! Beware the toxic textbooks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 10:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>parker62</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What can we do about the toxic textbooks that infest our education systems? How can we counter the pervasive neoliberal ideology which masquerades as &#8216;objective knowledge&#8217;? I&#8217;m not a fan of book burning for any cause. A healthy dose of &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/warning-beware-the-toxic-textbooks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=809&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The new republicanism, part 2: The green republic</title>
		<link>http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/the-new-republicanism-part-2-the-green-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>parker62</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[green politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concrete utopia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Barry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neo-republicanism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I described in my previous post, republicanism is founded on key concepts such as public politics and self-government. In an article published in The Good Society in 2008, John Barry notes that this “language of civic republicanism has been &#8230; <a href="http://wellsharp.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/the-new-republicanism-part-2-the-green-republic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wellsharp.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2191066&amp;post=804&amp;subd=wellsharp&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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