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		<title>Real Irish Magic Versus Plastic Shamrocks and Green Beer.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 02:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Everyone is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough" said Yeats "but the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching.” 


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		<title>Beaver Medicine.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Native people refer to the "medicine" of each animal]]></description>
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		<title>Thoreau, the Woods &amp; a Cure for Modern Life.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/02/thoreau-the-woods-and-a-cure-for-modern-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It sometimes happens that I cannot easily shake off the village. The thought of some work will run in my head and I am not where my body is - I am out of my senses."]]></description>
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		<title>Melancholia the Film &#8211; and Psychological Responses to Planetary Crisis.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/01/melancholia-the-film-and-psychological-responses-to-planetary-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill McKibben]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I watched the film it occurred to me that the crisis I was seeing on the screen and in particular the unique ways that each of the central characters related to it provided a not-so-metaphorical template for the ecological mega-crisis of our own times, as well as our individual emotional responses]]></description>
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		<title>A night in the forest at Windhorse Farm.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/05/a-night-in-the-forest-at-windhorse-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 18:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friends, Jim and Margaret Drescher, live at Windhorse Farm,  a working model of sustainable living that they co-created in perfect collaboration with nature. Recently I spent three nights there, one of which was spent out in the forest under a bright (and cold!) full moon. I am still contemplating all that I experienced there. On my first visit to Windhorse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice for Native Americans.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/04/justice-for-native-americans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say “My God! What are these people doing to themselves? They’re killing each other. They’re killing themselves”. ]]></description>
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		<title>Ostara &#8211; The balance of light and dark</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2011/03/ostara-the-balance-of-light-and-dark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 15:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the spring, or vernal equinox. On this day, as well as on the fall equinox (September 21st) the length of day and night are equal in proportion across our whole planet.]]></description>
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		<title>Samhain: The true meaning of Halloween.</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/10/samhain-november-1st-the-true-meaning-of-halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/10/samhain-november-1st-the-true-meaning-of-halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeding the dead can fulfill the longings of physical, emotional and spritiual hunger that we and they experience...]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair: Showcasing Community Builders</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/09/rocky-mountain-sustainable-living-fair-showcasing-community-builders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/09/rocky-mountain-sustainable-living-fair-showcasing-community-builders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been particularly impressed by those who are working to create real community in Northern Colorado]]></description>
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		<title>Time for the Sustainable Living Fair in Ft. Collins, Colorado!</title>
		<link>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/09/whats-blue-and-green-and-spins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/09/whats-blue-and-green-and-spins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 03:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Tolstrup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 11th annual Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair is this weekend in Fort Collins and I will be covering the highlights all weekend. ]]></description>
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