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		<title>The Earthquake in Copenhagen:  Reflections on CoP-15 and its Aftermath</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After attending CoP-15 (as a UN Observer, on temporary assignment to the Division for Sustainable Development, though of course I write entirely in my individual capacity), talking to numerous delegates and observers and NGO activists during the event, and reading over a hundred articles on the process and the outcome, I have come to an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=344&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever Works:  Of Green New Deals, Marshall Plans, and Energy Revolutions in Copenhagen at CoP-15</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I received a telephone call from Tariq Banuri, head of the UN&#8217;s Division for Sustainable Development.  At the time, I was wandering around the building site where my wife and I are constructing an eco- and climate-friendly house, outside of Stockholm.  &#8220;Can you talk now?&#8221; said Tariq.  I sat myself down [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=340&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Changer pour Durer&#8221;:  Change to Endure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The French think differently,&#8221; said nearly every one of us who was not actually French. Of course, we said this to each other in French, so perhaps we were thinking differently too.
Last week (19-24 Sept 2009) I attended an inter-disciplinary colloquium at a castle in Normandy called Cerisy-la-Salle. The central massive stone structure (see photo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=326&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Year Without Coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting in my favorite cafe in Stockholm&#8217;s south side, laptop out, sipping on a strong cafe latté &#8230; for the first time in a year.
It tastes wonderful.
To those of you who love coffee, I can almost recommend taking a year-long fast, just to rediscover how wonderful this drink truly is.
But I jump ahead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=317&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camping at Tällberg &#8211; Epilogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Note: This is the final installment in a six-part series. You might want to read them in sequence.
My tent is back in the closet.  The great circus tent used for the Tällberg Forum&#8217;s plenary sessions is undoubtedly on its way back home to Italy.  The Tällberg Companion &#8212; the little book with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=309&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camping at Tällberg &#8211; Episode 5:  Cold Water Cooking</title>
		<link>http://alanatkisson.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/camping-at-tallberg-episode-5-cold-water-cooking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Elkington is leading a very lively discussion on aid and entrepreneurism.  &#8220;Does aid work?&#8221; says a young Kenyan entrepreneur, whose name I missed (he is a late addition to the program). His answer is a clear no, backing up, strengthening, a point made by Iqbal Quadir.  Quadir asked Sweden directly &#8212; because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=303&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camping at Tällberg &#8211; Episode 4:  Stop Talking, Start Planting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Morning again.  Somehow folks crawled out of bed after dancing and drinking past midnight, and made their way to the big tent by 8:30 (it is full when I get there) to experience the climate change negotiations game run by Drew Jones and other colleagues.
First, Drew Jones &#8212; his voice almost wavers with emotion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=297&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camping at Tällberg &#8211; Episode 3:  An Evening of Standing Ovations</title>
		<link>http://alanatkisson.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/camping-at-tallberg-episode-3-an-evening-of-standing-ovations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gro Harlem Brundtland is relating stories from her childhood &#8212; as a Norwegian refugee in Stockholm during World War II, leading her little brother safely across streets, and the unexpected apology she received from her father, when she was 12 or 13, because he had cut her off in a debate and declared her simply [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=287&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camping at Tällberg &#8211; Episode 2:  A Bad Problem Problem is Actually Much Worse</title>
		<link>http://alanatkisson.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/camping-at-tallberg-episode-2-a-bad-problem-problem-is-actually-much-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s morning. I had a wonderful, quiet time by the Lake, sleeping, writing, playing guitar. (The photo was taken just after midnight, from my tentsite.)
But now I walk (late) into the big tent of the Tällberg Forum. Global reality hits me like a desert wind. &#8220;The problem that we already thought was bad is actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=283&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camping at Tällberg &#8211; Episode 1</title>
		<link>http://alanatkisson.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/camping-at-tallberg-episode-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bo Ekman formally opens the 2009 Tällberg Forum in his traditional way &#8212; philosophically, and a bit theatrically.  He asks us to just listen to the drip-drip-drip of a water drop, shown in video on the big screen. He reflects on the &#8220;the change of change&#8221; &#8212; we used to think of nature as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alanatkisson.wordpress.com&blog=6057892&post=277&subd=alanatkisson&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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