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<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'>The Surprising Reason Why
Americans Are So Lonely, and Why Future Prosperity Means Socializing with Your
Neighbors<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'>Access to cheap energy made us rich, wrecked our climate, and made
us the first people on earth who had no practical need of our neighbors -- that
has to change.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'>April 27, 2010</span></em><span class=apple-converted-space><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'> |
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'> <em><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Excerpted
from the book</span></em><span class=apple-converted-space><i> </i></span><a
href="http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780805090567"><span style='color:#D5AE12'>EAARTH:
Making a Life on a Tough New Planet</span></a><span
class=apple-converted-space><i> </i></span><em><span style='font-family:
"Corbel","sans-serif"'>by</span></em><span class=apple-converted-space><i> </i></span><em><span
style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.billmckibben.com/"><span
style='color:#D5AE12'>Bill McKibben</span></a>. Reprinted by arrangement with
Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.</span></em><span
class=apple-converted-space><i> </i></span><em><span style='font-family:
"Corbel","sans-serif"'>Copyright (c) 2010 by Bill McKibben.</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'>Community</span></em><span
class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif";
color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Corbel","sans-serif";color:black'>may suffer from overuse more sorely than any
word in the dictionary. Politicians left and right sprinkle it through their
remarks the way a bad Chinese restaurant uses MSG, to mask the lack of
wholesome ingredients. But we need to rescue it; we need to make sure that
community will become, on this tougher planet, one of the most prosaic terms in
the lexicon, like<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>hoe</span></em><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>or<em><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>bicycle</span></em><span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>or<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span
style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>computer</span></em>. Access to
endless amounts of cheap energy made us rich, and wrecked our climate, and it<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span style='font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'>also
made us the first people on earth who had no practical need of our neighbors</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Full story here ::: <a
href="http://www.alternet.org/story/146623/the_surprising_reason_why_americans_are_so_lonely,_and_why_future_prosperity_means_socializing_with_your_neighbors">http://www.alternet.org/story/146623/the_surprising_reason_why_americans_are_so_lonely,_and_why_future_prosperity_means_socializing_with_your_neighbors</a><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Corbel","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";
color:black'>Shauna, OKC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><i><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif"'>Imagine, innovate,
create, collaborate<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
href="http://www.sustainableokc.org"><span style='line-height:150%;color:#365F91;
text-decoration:none'>www.sustainableokc.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
href="http://www.transitiontownokc.com"><span style='line-height:150%;
color:#365F91;text-decoration:none'>www.transitiontownokc.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
href="http://www.goinglocalokc.com"><span style='line-height:150%;color:#365F91;
text-decoration:none'>www.goinglocalokc.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
href="http://thinklady.typepad.com%20/"><span style='line-height:150%;
color:#365F91;text-decoration:none'>http://thinklady.typepad.com /</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a
href="http://freshgreens.typepad.com/"><span style='line-height:150%;
color:#365F91;text-decoration:none'>http://freshgreens.typepad.com/</span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;
color:green'>P</span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt;color:green'>please
don't print this e-mail unless you really need to</span><span style='font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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