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       Becoming stewards of our social, cultural, and natural heritage.
       
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    <title>For Thriving Public Spaces, Just Add Seating</title>        
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    <description>Could it be as simple as that? Author Jonathan Rowe thought so, and tried it out in his own hometown.</description>        
    
    
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      <dc:creator>Jonathan Rowe</dc:creator>
    
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    <title>Why Post-Sandy America Needs State Banks More than Ever</title>        
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    <description>If we the people want the sort of security in emergencies that is available to the owners of Wall Street banks, we need to own some banks ourselves.</description>        
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    <dc:date>2013-01-07T19:21:03Z</dc:date>        
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    <title>Detroiters Question “World’s Largest Urban Farm”</title>        
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    <description>To many Detroit residents—and especially to its established urban gardeners—the approval of a large-scale urban farm raises serious questions about the future of food and land in the city. </description>        
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    <dc:date>2012-12-18T20:51:22Z</dc:date>        
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    <title>To Change Our Direction, It’s Time to Follow Nature’s Lead</title>        
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    <description>It takes humility to recognize that what we’ve called progress isn’t always for the better. Sometimes nature’s original idea was a better one.</description>        
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    <title>5 Ways to Protect the Rights of Future Generations</title>        
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    <description>This fall, 150 women gathered in the desert town of Moab, Utah, to discuss the changes we would need to respect the rights of future generations.</description>        
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      <dc:creator>Melanie Jae Martin</dc:creator>
    
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    <dc:date>2012-10-23T00:37:07Z</dc:date>        
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    <title>For Sale: The Sacred Center of the Sioux Universe</title>        
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    <description>The site of Pe’ Sla has been privately owned since 1876, but indigenous people have always been free to worship there. All that could change on August 25, when the land is set to be auctioned off. </description>        
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    <dc:date>2012-08-24T16:58:06Z</dc:date>        
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    <title>The Story of the Commons</title>        
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    <description>Tired of the privatization of everything? You’re not alone. Annie Leonard on how we can recognize and rebuild the things we all share.</description>        
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    <dc:date>2012-03-16T07:57:05Z</dc:date>        
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    <title>Is It Time to Occupy the Commons?</title>        
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    <description>A report from the Occupy Wall Street Forum on the Commons.</description>        
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      <dc:creator>Alexa Bradley</dc:creator>
    
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    <dc:date>2012-03-02T21:02:22Z</dc:date>        
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    <title>What If Corporations Couldn’t Use Our Commons For Free?</title>        
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    <description>Peter Barnes: How our shared resources could become a source of common wealth.</description>        
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    <dc:date>2012-02-24T23:03:09Z</dc:date>        
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    <title>A People’s History of Robin Hood</title>        
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    <description>For hundreds of years, he’s fought tax injustice, tyranny, and the seizure of the commons. Why we still need him today.
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      <dc:creator>Paul Buhle</dc:creator>
    
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    <title>Graduates Get a Crash Course in Sharing</title>        
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    <description>How new graduates are improvising when expected careers aren’t panning out.</description>        
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      <dc:creator>Malcolm Harris</dc:creator>
    
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    <dc:date>2011-10-28T16:53:46Z</dc:date>        
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    <title>Inside Occupy Wall Street’s Nearly Last Night</title>        
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    <description>What was it like to be in Zuccotti Park in the hours before the owners’ planned eviction of protesters?</description>        
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      <dc:creator>Olivia Rosane</dc:creator>
    
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    <title>The Resilient Library</title>        
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    <description>Even in a time when libraries are facing steep cuts, we’re using them more than ever—in more ways than ever. </description>        
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      <dc:creator>Cat Johnson</dc:creator>
    
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    <title>Living Right on the “Wrong” Side of Town</title>        
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    <description>When Corbyn Hightower’s financial world fell apart, a ragtag community came together to show how lively neighborhoods grow new livelihoods.</description>        
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    <title>Arrivederci, Water Profiteers</title>        
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    <description>“Water is a common good.” Why 96 percent of Italian voters rejected their government’s push for water privatization.</description>        
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