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		<title>The Quality of Life Foundation, planting seeds of happiness!</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2010/04/the-quality-of-life-foundation-introduces-a-spiritual-underpinning-to-the-environmental-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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I have just started working for a great organzation called The Quality of Life Foundation with my good friend, Lee Hwang. The Quality of Life Foundation is a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit startup that seeks to engage volunteers to plant trees in public spaces in order to build stronger and healthier individuals, communities, and ecosystems. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links to my Triple Pundit Articles from the 2009 Net Impact Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2009/11/links-to-my-triple-pundit-articles-from-the-2009-net-impact-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the articles that I wrote for TriplePundit.com during and after the 2009 Net Impact Conference at Cornell University.

Adam Werbach&#8217;s Strategies for Sustainability
How are we Going to Solve the Water and Sanitation Crisis?
Is Bottled Water a &#8220;Dead Man Walking&#8221;?
Net Impact Conference: Suggested Improvements

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		<title>I&#8217;m blogging at the Net Impact Conference for TriplePundit.com!</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2009/11/im-blogging-at-the-net-impact-conference-for-triplepundit-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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I am excited to be covering this event for TriplePundit.com.  I am hoping to cover bigger trends surrounding lifecycle analysis, supply chain and water scarcity/quality. Please contact me if you have any ideas for juicy stories!
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		<title>How can a flock of birds give us hope?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2009/10/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen a flock of birds or a shoal of fish change direction very quickly? This is called an emergent behavior; according to Wickipedia: An emergent behavior or emergent property can appear when a number of simple entities (agents) operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviors as a collective.
Think of how we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Rainwater Harvesting Promotional Video&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/12/cool-rainwater-harvesting-promotional-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/12/cool-rainwater-harvesting-promotional-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We need more efforts like this here in the US. This one was done for India.
Anyone want to put together an ad campaign?

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		<title>Can We Talk About This? &#8211;&gt; &#8220;Greensumption&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/10/can-we-talk-about-this-greensumption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/10/can-we-talk-about-this-greensumption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[fossil fuels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this video called &#8220;Greensumption&#8221;. This is something that needs to be discussed. We think we have it all figured out, don&#8217;t we???

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		<title>The Vice of Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/09/the-vice-of-capitalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/09/the-vice-of-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Socialism collapsed because it did not allow prices to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow prices to tell the ecological truth.&#8221; 
— Oystein Dahle, retired VP of Esso Norway
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		<title>All Foods at Anytime?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/09/all-foods-at-anytime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/09/all-foods-at-anytime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[going local]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plastics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers expect all types of food, with no concession to season or geography. This used to be mainly a habit of the richer countries, but now the developing world is taking our example.
Why is this like this? Well part of the reason is that there was a little-known international treaty signed in Chicago in 1944 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Local is a Matter of Life and Death!</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/08/going-local-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/08/going-local-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewsavage</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community-building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Memory of my sister, Jessica Brigida Stevens.
When my sister died last summer suddenly, I was struck by the most amazing realization. She had lived in Alaska with her family, my brother lives in Sydney, Australia with his family, and the rest of the family lives here in San Francisco. It seemed ridiculous to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Electricity: The &#8220;Smart Grid&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/08/the-future-of-electricity-the-smart-grid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/08/the-future-of-electricity-the-smart-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewsavage</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
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Imagine a utility grid that is smart, distributed and more localized. What does that mean? Well, think electricity combined with the technology and structure of the Internet.
In our current electricity grid, the electrons flow from huge, centralized power plants, sometimes quite a distance from the end user, and simply go one way; picture thousands of [...]]]></description>
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