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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

>
Good stuff, Rob. Full perspective. Thank you.

> This link goes to a piece on cities and specifically the slums in the
> cities. It starts off talking about the fact that today for the first
> time over half the people on the globe live in a city and gets into
> the poor. http://www.theplaceswelive.com/
> It was enlightening for me, my life is a long way from any city like
> those shown.
> Tie it in with "What people eat"
> http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519,00.html and I
> get a different view of the world as a whole.
>
> I think about this when we talk of "everyone" living on a homestead
> but I do keep in mind that it can be done
> http://www.pathtofreedom.com/about/urbanhomestead.shtml .
>
> For those of you really depressed by all this growing city and sum
> talk here is an article where the cold fusion experiment was finally
> duplicated,
> http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=XNC1WRBQ2SY14QSNDLSCKHA?articleID=216200272