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	<link>http://akerue.net</link>
	<description>Communications &#38; Design</description>
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		<title>Graphics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A selection of some of my printed design work from over the past few years. Clients include the National Trust, the Soil Association and UK Youth Climate Coalition]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/2011/06/graphics/</link>
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		<title>Post- Environmentalism is more than a makeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think Post-Environmentalism is simply a rebrand? Wrong. Here's my attempt to spell out what the fledgling movement is all about.]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/2011/05/929/</link>
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		<title>Life after Fukushima</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Events in Japan are deeply worrying, but let’s keep things in perspective. Faced with climate change and skyrocketing electricity demand, there are no ideal solutions- and many which could be much worse. ]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/post-environmentalism/2011/03/life-after-fukushima/</link>
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		<title>The Future is Bright Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a battering year for the climate movement, it's time to accept that the current approach isn't working - and to start working on a different new one.]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/post-environmentalism/2011/01/the-future-is-bright-green/</link>
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		<title>Has oil wealth been a blessing or a curse for the Middle East?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oil has brough astonishing wealth, but alongside it political and economic stagnation. Why have results been so mixed?]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/academic/2010/10/has-oil-wealth-been-a-blessing-or-a-curse-for-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<title>Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few snaps from a fantastic week in Barcelona with the gorgeous girlfriend. Estupendo!]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/travel/2010/09/berlin-aug-10/</link>
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		<title>Was there a Reagan Revolution?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He modelled himself on FDR and promised to roll back decades of liberal hegemony in US politics. But was it really a revolution after all?]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/academic/2010/06/was-there-a-reagan-revolution/</link>
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		<title>The Great Society and the Progressive Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme borrowed a lot from the 19th century Progressive tradition- including its shortcomings.]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/academic/2010/06/the-great-society-in-the-context-of-the-progressive-tradition/</link>
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		<title>What Progressives Can Learn From the Tea Party Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cutting past the hype, there are good reasons to think that the Tea Party won't last- but that doesn't mean there aren't things we can learn from it.]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/politics/2010/04/what-progressives-can-learn-from-the-tea-party-movement/</link>
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		<title>You Don’t Have to Be an Environmentalist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Copenhagen and Climategate, environmentalism is becoming a dirty word- just as well you don't have to be an environmentalist to care, then. ]]></description>
		<link>http://akerue.net/blog/post-environmentalism/2010/02/you-dont-have-to-be-an-environmentalist/</link>
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