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		<title>Winter Allies</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/winter-allies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Natural Farming / Forest Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wild Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foraging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuyuichigo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gamazumi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kadsura japonica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kampo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oenanthe javanica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rubus buergeri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sanekazura]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[seri]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viburnum dilatatum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This winter I have been making new friends and deepening my relationship with some older acquaintances. Allow me introduce you to a few of them. The first began reaching out to me some time ago. Exactly when I can&#8217;t say. Sometimes I am not the most attentive and the earliest advances were lost on me. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1654&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tokyo Event</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/tokyo-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eco-anarchism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permaculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workshop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Returning to the Way of Nature A workshop facilitated by Dion Workman and Takuya Sasa. Nerima-ku, Tokyo 17th Dec. Sat. 10:00~17:00 Donations appreciated. Please bring food for a shared lunch. RSVP required: tabi0419[at]gmail.com Returning to the Way of Nature A presentation and discussion about the state of modern society, the destruction of the environment and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1959&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift Economy (part II)</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/the-gift-economy-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engaged Withdrawal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anarcho-primitivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sacred economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scarcity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, the second part of a series on gift economies, [part one can be read here], I contrast the dynamics of a money economy to those of a gift economy, and discuss the casting of spells and how to break spells. In a future post I shall look at the practicalities of gift [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1688&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intermission</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/intermission/</link>
		<comments>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/intermission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engaged Withdrawal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Eisenstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gift economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indignados]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indignant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Revolution is Love]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Part II in my gift economy series will be posted soon but in the meantime here is a little half-time entertainment. In this short video Charles Eisenstein, author of The Ascent of Humanity and Sacred Economics, works that I am drawing on heavily in The Gift Economy posts talks about the Occupy Wall Street Movement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1849&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift Economy (part I)</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/the-gift-economy-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/the-gift-economy-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engaged Withdrawal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anarcho-primitivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunter-gatherer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scarcity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Goods and Services This past week I have been feeling deep gratitude for the gifts of October. The delicious Akebi (chocolate vine) fruits that have appeared everywhere amongst the trees, the walnuts and chestnuts littering the ground, the first of the winterberries, little raspberry like fruits peeping out from under a carpet of deep green [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1648&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Hero&#8217;s Farewell</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/a-heros-farewell/</link>
		<comments>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/a-heros-farewell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wangari Maathai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hero is not a word I bandy about. In fact it is a word I hardly ever use, at least not in earnest. People are just people after all, right? Well, yes&#8230;but there are some people on whose every word I hang, whose writing fills my head with ideas and visions, whose life inspires my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1616&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Garden to Forest-Garden to Forest</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/garden-to-forest-garden-to-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/garden-to-forest-garden-to-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engaged Withdrawal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Farming / Forest Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wild Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foraging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[permaculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s coming up for ten months since we moved into these mountains and already great big tap roots have sprouted from the soles of our feet and sunk deep into the earth. As our roots grow and spread we proceed lightly and slowly, finding our way of inhabiting these forested mountains, becoming forest people, mountain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1536&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">pomegranate and kumquat</media:title>
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		<title>The Inexpressible</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/the-inexpressible-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burning radioactive material]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fukushima Daiichi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear disaster Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegetables]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on the floor around a low table with friends visiting from Tokyo, eating fresh produce from the garden not ten metres away. Spirits enlivened with a light buzz from the mugwort homebrew. During the course of the evening the conversation inevitably turns to Fukushima and, like a dark storm cloud filling a summer sky, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1419&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Itadori (Japanese Knotweed)</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/itadori-japanese-knotweed/</link>
		<comments>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/itadori-japanese-knotweed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wild Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fallopia japonica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[itadori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japanese knotweed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low energy food preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicinal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sansai]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All too often when I look up a plant online to see how other folks are utilizing it I get pages and pages of how to eradicate it before (if) I find anything on how one can use it. Why are we such haters? We need to be lovers people! Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica, syn. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1247&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for #6</title>
		<link>http://nakazora.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/waiting-for-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mountains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[number 6]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past couple of days we have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of typhoon #6  &#8211; the first in this years typhoon season to pose any sort of threat to us. Being up in the mountains, yet near the coast, we have to take the typhoons very seriously. These are steep mountains prone to landslides [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nakazora.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12351367&amp;post=1206&amp;subd=nakazora&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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