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	<description>sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives.</description>
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		<title>The San Isidro, Costa Rica area&#8230; a grassroots epicenter!</title>
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I am writing from Finca Amrta, a small nature reserve and farm in the foothills of the Talamaca mountains in Costa Rica’s southern zone.  Finca Amrta has, among other things, served as base for me to explore the area around San Isidro, Costa Rica. This area has so much to offer and is truly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Intern in Panama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am writing from Bocas del Toro, Panama after a 3 week whirl wind of travel.

The Rainbow Hostel




I began my travels at The Rainbow Hostel, a forming community whose intention is to serve as a school for social sustainability. My time there was extremely grounding. Jananda, one of the residents had a lot of useful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/08/23/travel-intern-in-panama/</link>
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		<title>Chiapas Rainwater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(This is part of a five project series on HSU Chiapas 2010 started here)






Rain.  Coming back from a summer in Mexico, everyone expects me to be tanner. Like other assumptions about a country as big and diverse as Mexico, not necessary so...  San Cristobal de las Casas was gorgeous.  San Cristobal was interesting.  San Cristobal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/08/17/chiapas-rainwater/</link>
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		<title>HSU Chiapas 2010 Follow-up</title>
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After the Zapatista armed uprising in Chiapas during the 1990's, you may find it surprising that the Humboldt State University, Spanish and Appropriate Technology, summer abroad program had to move from Coahuila in Northern Mexico to Chiapas in Southern Mexico for safety reasons.  Yet, that is where we found ourselves this year... with the drug [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/08/12/hsu-chiapas-2010-followup/</link>
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		<title>Travel Intern: Back to work after a….Peruvian appendectomy!?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed: This was written 7 days ago, but we were only able to post it now. We'll have another update from Isabel very soon.
Hello, this is Appropedia Travel intern, Isabel.
I arrived in Costa Rica today after a series of interesting detours…

My last blog was written about a month ago from the dreamy town of Mancora, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/08/11/travel-intern-back-to-work-after-a%e2%80%a6-peruvian-appendectomy/</link>
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		<title>Tell your friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I chatted to a stranger at an Indian diner, and when I mentioned Appropedia, he asked me to send him some links for his friend, who is a wastewater engineer.
I'll share my message here, in case you know a water or wastewater engineer, or other knowledgeable person, and perhaps to prompt you to invite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/07/29/tell-your-friends/</link>
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		<title>Poverty in a rich country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm in Jakarta, and discussing the state of Indonesia (you know, solving the world's problems after dinner). The most pertinent comment:
"This is not a poor country. It's a rich country with lots of poor people."
As in many other countries, there's no sign of a major change in the distribution of wealth any time soon. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/07/07/poverty-in-a-rich-country/</link>
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		<title>The Future We Deserve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Future We Deserve is "a curated collaborative collection of 100 essays about the future." The contributions are being coordinated on Appropedia - see The future we deserve.
From the homepage :
The Future We Deserve is a new book project about collaboratively creating the future we deserve. We will be working together at internet scale on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/07/04/the-future-we-deserve/</link>
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		<title>Geek Moment: Shiny New CrunchBang Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CrunchBang Linux is an operating system based ona philosophy of lean code and usability. It doesn't aim to be the easiest version of Linux, but for someone with a moderate amount of computer ability it's straightforward and not bloated.
The upcoming version switches to the proven and stable base of Debian. This is version 10, named [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/07/03/geek-moment-shiny-new-crunchbang-linux/</link>
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		<title>Earthquake mitigation for buildings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Design and choice of building materials have a major impact on a building's earthquake safety.
Less rigidity in buildings and a combination of flexing and tensile strength allows for more resistance to earthquakes. Lightness of the building material reduces likelihood of injuries or of people becoming trapped if the building does collapse.
That's a taste of "Earthquake [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.appropedia.org/2010/07/02/earthquake-mitigation-for-buildings/</link>
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