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	<title>The Capacity Evolution Blog &#187; abundance</title>
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		<title>The Abundance Dynamic</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2010/03/28/the-abundance-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate social responsibility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[me to we]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[plastic gyres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scarcity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Story of Stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade imbalance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tuna]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is a shift in progress.
For hundreds of years we have been living, working, consuming and discarding without much concern for the consequences of our actions. The dominant paradigm has been one of individual, corporate and national profit making and taking. The costs of these pursuits has been consistently and conveniently “externalized”, meaning, simply, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consuming Thoughts: Y</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2010/01/10/consuming-thoughts-y/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[credit line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortgages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Gabriel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategic defaults]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[We hold the line]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Y is for Yes and the Power of Intention. Peter Gabriel: And the tears roll down my swollen cheek, I think I&#8217;m losing it, getting weaker&#8230;I hold the line, I hold the line. Record numbers of homeowners are walking away from mortgages that they are fully capable of paying. According to a Times Magazine article [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy &#8220;New&#8221; Year</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2010/01/01/happy-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2010/01/01/happy-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiyomizudera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At Kiyomizudera they have chosen &#8220;shin&#8221; as the kanji most representative of the past year, 2009. Shin means &#8220;new&#8221;. The kanji &#8220;新米&#8221; means a new crop of rice, new growth and symbolizes a fresh beginning. It is easy and, perhaps, more comfortable to think of the last year as a year of loss. Over 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consuming Thoughts: W</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/12/27/consuming-thoughts-w/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/12/27/consuming-thoughts-w/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Serious Man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burgerville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CO2 limits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hemp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instant karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lennon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalundborg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Gopnick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scarcity mindset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Carpenters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[W is for Me, Becoming We. John Lennon: Instant Karma&#8217;s gonna get you, gonna knock you off your feet. Better recognize your brothers, ev&#8217;ryone you meet. Why in the world are we here &#8211; surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there &#8211; when you&#8217;re ev&#8217;rywhere, Come and get your share.
I wonder if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gratitude</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/11/27/gratitude/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/11/27/gratitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
It begins with an awareness of breath. My breath, my wife&#8217;s breath, rain falling lightly in the fog outside the bedroom window. My son stirs, clambers down from his loft and crawls into our bed. Family, the three of us half-awake, half-asleep, still this early morning.
Memories of Thanksgivings past dance through the fog Douglass Fir [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consuming Thoughts: S</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/11/23/consuming-thoughts-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate social responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lydon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[koyaanisqatsi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[savings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scarcity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[S means Savings Through Which We All Win. John Lydon; Anger is an energy! Anger is an energy! So is money. It is the water cycling through our economic ecosystems, the electric currency powering the prosperity of our communities. Life is a big &#8216;ol square dance of energy exchange.
Money is kind of funny because it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consuming Thoughts: ABC</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/08/31/consuming-thoughts-abc/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/08/31/consuming-thoughts-abc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chrissie Hynde]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dancing cats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[externalized costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local currencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Stipe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Wordsworth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last post on consumerism catalyzed a considerable cavalcade of conversations. So, here are some more mangled musings in alphabetical order on the art of consumption.
A is for Appetite Grown Uncontrol&#8217;d: Michael Stipe: &#8220;&#8230;What we want and what we need has been confused&#8230;&#8221; Let&#8217;s face it. Our current consumer economy depends on us buying, accumulating, consuming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving the Needle: From Less Bad to Abundance</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/26/moving-the-needle-from-less-bad-to-abundance/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/26/moving-the-needle-from-less-bad-to-abundance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate social responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cradle to cradle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janine Benyus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life creates the conditions conducive to life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will McDonough]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ikan.biz/blog/?p=239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you&#8217;re looking at a gauge. The left half of the gauge has black hash marks with numbers that go from &#8220;-10&#8243; to &#8220;0&#8243; at the top. The background color on this half is red. The right half of the gauge has numbers that start from &#8220;0&#8243; at the top of the gauge and go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the Value of Business</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/20/rethinking-the-value-of-business/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/07/20/rethinking-the-value-of-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate social responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abound]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asset valuation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cash flow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[complex open systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Hammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relational capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ROI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TBLI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[triple bottom line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I talk with prospective members of Abound about their businesses, the business of sustainability and the challenges of being a leader in sustainable business, one of the recurring themes we encounter is that of value.
This theme of value was echoed at the Triple Bottom Line Investment (TBLI) conference I attended in Tokyo. A number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media &amp; Sustainability 2.0</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/04/07/social-media-sustainability-20/</link>
		<comments>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/04/07/social-media-sustainability-20/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[capacity evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instant karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Gladwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polarity management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[turquoise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UDX]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wiki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WiserEarth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be giving a talk on the connections between social media and sustainability next week. As I was doing some research on the topic I came upon this slightly dated piece over at Max Gladwell.
They make a good point that there is nothing &#8220;inherently green about social media.&#8221; Indeed. Social media is exactly what it sounds [...]]]></description>
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