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	<description>Wren Tuatha's Complicated Adventures in Simple Living</description>
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		<title>FREDERICK, MARYLAND POW-WOW SCHEDULED FOR May 2011: Frederick Food Bank TO Benefit From Pow-Wow</title>
		<link>http://hippiechickdiaries.com/2011/05/05/frederick-maryland-pow-wow-scheduled-for-may-2011-frederick-food-bank-to-benefit-from-pow-wow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 15:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forwarding a press release.&#8212;WT:
Hollister, NC- Pow-Wow, an American Indian owned and operated company, will sponsor the Frederick, Maryland American Indian Pow-Wow and Show at the E-Eventplex at the Frederick Fairgrounds (797 E. Patrick Street  Frederick, MD  21705) on May 21-22, 2011.  The Pow-Wow is an opportunity for the public to interact with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 22 Fundraiser for Heathcote Land, Permaculture; Features Jamie Anderson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my world, Permaculture education and comedic Lesbian folk music are a luscious combination, like chocolate and peanut butter. Remember those Reese&#8217;s commercials in which one person is walking down the street eating a chocolate bar and someone is walking towards them eating from a jar of peanut butter and they&#8217;re both so self absorbed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Missed Saturday&#8217;s Gaia U Open House, Here&#8217;s Your Second Chance!</title>
		<link>http://hippiechickdiaries.com/2011/02/23/if-you-missed-saturdays-gaia-u-open-house-heres-your-second-chance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 18:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come to our Gaia University Open House!
March 5, 2011, 7:30 – 9:00 PM at Heathcote Community
Come learn about Gaia University, an institution for higher learning with a unique approach. The students (called associates) are able to earn accredited Bachelors &#38; Masters degrees and Graduate Diplomas whilst being actively engaged in self and planetary transformation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaia University Open House: Feb. 19, 2011, 1-3 PM at Heathcote Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wren</dc:creator>
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Come to our Gaia University&#8217;s Open House!
Feb. 19, 2011, 1-3 PM at Heathcote Community
Learn about Gaia University, an institution for higher learning with a unique approach. The students (called associates) are able to earn accredited Bachelors &#38; Masters degrees and Graduate Diplomas whilst being actively engaged in self and planetary transformation and ecosocial regeneration.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STILL A Revolutionary Decision-Making Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Wren:  I&#8217;m reproducing this article from several years ago, with C.T.&#8217;s permission. C.T. Butler and I, along with a forming collective of facilitators, have been putting new language to the many paradigm shifts that help practitioners of consensus decision-making succeed in conducting meetings that reflect the egalitarian, non-violent, post-privilege world in which we want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Spread Consensus Decision-Making Through Indymedia and the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[***PRESS RELEASE***PLEASE CIRCULATE***
The opportunity of a lifetime is before me. I’m writing for support of a project to train members of media cooperatives and collectives around the world in consensus decision-making and community building.
Consensus author/trainer C.T. Lawrence Butler and I have been working with organizers to structure an event leading up to 2011’s World Social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Classroom: A Great Year Closes</title>
		<link>http://hippiechickdiaries.com/2010/05/28/open-classroom-a-great-year-closes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
What an amazing year Heathcote Community&#8217;s Open Classroom had, thanks to our curious, energetic learners and my apprentice, Gloria (above, left) and Heathcote intern Kwame (above, right), both of whom practiced putting down their expectations of the kids&#8217; academic acheivment and finding their curiosities about our students&#8217; emotional, social and environmental lives.
Gloria, a Heathcote Community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid Atlantic Cohousing Conference, March 20, 2010</title>
		<link>http://hippiechickdiaries.com/2010/02/05/mid-atlantic-cohousing-conference-march-20-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://hippiechickdiaries.com/2010/02/05/mid-atlantic-cohousing-conference-march-20-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently visited Liberty Village Cohousing Community near Frederick, Maryland. About an hour from my own Heathcote Community, Liberty Village had been on my list of places I&#8217;d like to visit for some time. I was invited by my friend C.T. Butler, author of On Conflict and Consensus, A Handbook on Formal Consensus Decisionmaking. C.T. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Rule: No Saying, &#8220;No Touching&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://hippiechickdiaries.com/2009/08/10/new-rule-no-saying-no-touching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first weekend of the Howard County, Maryland Fair (&#8220;How Cow&#8220;) 2009 is through the chute. I am wiped out and hoarse, but also exhilarated to be camped out in the forest my beloved necklace branches and Karuna Arts batiks again. The sounds of customers tinking on the bamboo xylophone and rubbing the frog mating [...]]]></description>
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