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		<title>Preparation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a considerable amount of planning that went into this trip. Overland trips typically require a lot of planning, and this one especially so because:

I was really trying to go quite quickly, cover a lot of distance and had to be in certain locations at certain times e.g. a course in India, conference in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flowingmu.wordpress.com&blog=4308161&post=768&subd=flowingmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Offsets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many sites and organisation you can use offset your carbon footprint.
While I have used different ones in the past, for 2008-2009 I decided to offset my combined personal and business offsets with Climate Friendly. For 8 tonnes (my total was 7.5 tonnes) it cost me a bit over $200AUD.
In this report, Climate Friendly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flowingmu.wordpress.com&blog=4308161&post=760&subd=flowingmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final 2008-2009 Carbon Footprint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 12:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am now settled in Geraldton, Western Australia and have done the calculations on my final carbon footprint from April 2008 to April 2009.
My target was to get it down to 6 tonnes, which was a target my fellow CRAGers and I all agreed to.
My actual carbon footprint was 7543kg! 
[This is a combined total [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flowingmu.wordpress.com&blog=4308161&post=753&subd=flowingmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting for happy dolphins and &#8216;clean&#8217; coal &#8211; Hallbarhet Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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The first day on the road got off to a fast and early start and continued the pace through the day. Although, you can&#8217;t complain about being too busy if your first appointment is cruising the beautiful Port Stephens for a cruise on the estuary looking for dolphins. These dolphins are worth seeing, in fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flowingmu.wordpress.com&blog=4308161&post=746&subd=flowingmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First big steps &#8211; Hallbarhet Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we took our first steps on the Hallbarhet2009 sustainability learning journey. And it really is &#8216;we&#8217;. For me, months of traveling alone have given way to reconnecting with people who speak the same &#8216;language&#8217; and have a great depth of shared experience and perspectives.
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		<title>What am I not sharing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it is worth being explicit about what I have not written about. Reading this blog, you may reasonably assume it is not my every thought, but you may also be unclear about to what degree I am censoring myself. I think this matters.
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		<title>Australia &#8211; Darwin to Sydney (the long way)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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Well, I made it through Australia. From Darwin to Adelaide, (3000kms south) then on to Sydney (2000km east of Adelaide) and out onto the golden sand and salty sea.
Australia is big, both in drought and flood, wealthy (but with loads of crazies and poor people), and utterly confusing. How did a country and people get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flowingmu.wordpress.com&blog=4308161&post=729&subd=flowingmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books 4: Outliers, Aussies and Blind Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are short comments on 3 of the 5 books I read while traveling from Darwin to Sydney, vai Adelaide and Melbourne!

Advance Australia Where?
Hugh McKay
I picked this book from the many on offer in Darwin that seemed to offer a way back into understanding Australian culture, politics and daily life. Having seen McKay speak in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flowingmu.wordpress.com&blog=4308161&post=717&subd=flowingmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books 3: Auto/Biographies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are comments on three biographical and autobiographical books I read whilst on my travels.

Buddha
Deepak Chopra
A narrative account of the Buddha&#8217;s journey from Siddhartha the Prince to Gautama the Monk to Buddha. I have not read much of Chopra&#8217;s work, and it is probably my loss. My resistance was some hang-over from an anti-American, anti-Oprah-Winfrey-endorsed-authors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flowingmu.wordpress.com&blog=4308161&post=715&subd=flowingmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books 2: Food, Biocultural conservation, Globalisation and Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are short reviews a few of the books I read that came from sympathetic worldviews about the nature of direction of  globalisation and sustainability. 
When reading these, please keep in mind that I have been reading in this area for at least 5 years, and have perhaps been a bit harsh on some authors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=flowingmu.wordpress.com&blog=4308161&post=712&subd=flowingmu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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