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	<title>Matthew Savage&#039;s Blog</title>
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	<description>Musings on Sustainability, Community and Creativity</description>
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		<title>Links to my Triple Pundit Articles from the 2009 Net Impact Conference</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2009/11/links-to-my-triple-pundit-articles-from-the-2009-net-impact-conference/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m blogging at the Net Impact Conference for TriplePundit.com!</title>
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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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		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2009/11/im-blogging-at-the-net-impact-conference-for-triplepundit-com/</link>
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		<title>How can a flock of birds give us hope?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2009/10/hello-world/</link>
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		<title>Cool Rainwater Harvesting Promotional Video&#8230;</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/12/cool-rainwater-harvesting-promotional-video/</link>
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		<title>Can We Talk About This? &#8211;&gt; &#8220;Greensumption&#8221;</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/10/can-we-talk-about-this-greensumption/</link>
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		<title>The Vice of Capitalism</title>
		<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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		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/09/the-vice-of-capitalism/</link>
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		<title>All Foods at Anytime?</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/09/all-foods-at-anytime/</link>
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		<title>Going Local is a Matter of Life and Death!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/08/going-local-is-a-matter-of-life-and-death-2/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Electricity: The &#8220;Smart Grid&#8221;</title>
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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>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/08/the-future-of-electricity-the-smart-grid/</link>
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		<title>A Gold Medal for Banning Plastic Bags?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[China is often perceived as a major polluter on the world stage, sacrificing the environment for rapid economic growth. This perception is often buttressed by images of polluted rivers and smog-infested landscapes.
In some ways, however, China is way ahead of the ball in protecting the environment. One prime example: China just placed a nationwide ban [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsavage.com/2008/08/a-gold-medal-for-banning-plastic-bags/</link>
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