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		<title>Privacy and your person</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/privacy-and-your-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am frustrated and almost irate with my private information being provided to companies I haven&#8217;t authorized be given my data.  More then that, I think you should be too and that we need to have our rights restored to us in Canada so that such abuse ceases.

What drove this is a call I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=431&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think small(er) to live big</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/think-smaller-to-live-big/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s mid-evening as I write this post; why is that important, it isn&#8217;t.  But it&#8217;s when my mind came up with the germ for this post.
So, why am I saying &#8220;think small to live big&#8221; and what do I mean by it.  What I mean, and this is a continuation of the post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=423&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ah technology, change and problems therein&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/ah-technology-change-and-problems-therein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlackMacX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 3rd time I&#8217;ve been &#8220;bitten&#8221; and so I&#8217;ve decided to leave my home-run WordPress site dead and move into the &#8220;cloud&#8221; permanently.  I enjoyed the running of my site from my home Mac, but with issues over the past year or so, I have increasingly realized that I don&#8217;t want to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=415&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Sufficiency doesn&#8217;t have to start out big</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/self-sufficiency-doesnt-have-to-start-out-big/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a friend&#8217;s blog yesterday and reflected on the idea of self-sufficiency/preparedness and realized that planning for a permaculture garden, being able to build my own furniture and repair things is great; but what happens in the here-and-now if I were to get trapped in an elevator, hurt or needed to survive if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=407&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decluttering your home and being prepared for things.</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/decluttering-your-home-and-being-prepared-for-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlackMacX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s the middle of August in Ontario and that means hot, humid and gross (made worse as we don&#8217;t have air-conditioning).  But that&#8217;s not the point of this post, the point is that we&#8217;re cleaning house and getting rid of stuff we don&#8217;t need (either selling in online) or if it&#8217;s not viable, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=405&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The shrinking world we are moving into&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/the-shrinking-world-we-are-moving-into/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlackMacX</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just started reading Jeff Rubin&#8217;s book Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller; it got me to thinking, how would I and we deal with less of everything.  Less food (imported or otherwise), less stuff (be that computers, coffee, cloths, clutter) and less waist (pun intended).  Would we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=403&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mini-farms for food security and improving your life</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/mini-farms-for-food-security-and-improving-your-life/</link>
		<comments>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/mini-farms-for-food-security-and-improving-your-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlackMacX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer&#8217;s here and the time is right, for enjoying your home and your garden.  So, it&#8217;s also time to maybe think about changing the garden and the grass lawn you have to something more useful (not that you have get rid of all your flowers and grass, just convert some of both into a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=401&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off the beaten garden path</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/off-the-beaten-garden-path/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlackMacX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sofar at CtC, most of the focus has been on reducing one&#8217;s impact upon the environment by using energy more efficiently, turning off things when you don&#8217;t need them and/or evaluating if that new gadget is really something needed. Also, it&#8217;s been about looking at what we as a society are willing to accept being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=383&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Downshift or not to Downshift (and why)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/to-downshift-or-not-to-downshift-and-why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 11:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlackMacX</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of Downshifting has really appealed to me (and now my family) for a couple of years.  Why Downshifting though&#8230;

Well, simply put, life&#8217;s rat-race (as we commonly call it these days) is becoming less enjoyable, more costly (in so many ways) and we&#8217;re getting nothing really better for us while enriching the pockets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=399&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Urban Homestead&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://controlthechange.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/review-of-the-urban-homestead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A book Review of The Urban Homestead by Kelly Coyne and Erick Knutzen.
I decided to buy this book in January 2009; being at times a lazy reader, I&#8217;ve only just finished with the book.  Saying that, in the end it is a good primer on starting to turn your home in the city into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=controlthechange.wordpress.com&blog=4719832&post=397&subd=controlthechange&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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