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RSS, Geography of Hope and living Off Grid (and that's just the start...) Just been on another online excursion - perfect way to pass a Sunday evening... All started with me updating my RSS feeds , and setting up a document for a training session I'm doing next week, and I ended up discovering the site relating to a forthcoming book by Chris Turner called GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE , the (apparently final design for the) cover of which is shown below: This in turn led me to the OFF GRID site, which has a range of very useful resources for those teaching issues of Sustainability and dealing with the issues... One particularly useful article for those doing Rural Urban relationships (an Edexcel A level topic for example) is an article on EXURBIA: Defined as an area on the urban fringe of a town or city, with at least 20% of its workers commuting, it tends to have low-density housing. A US study said there were 10.8 million people living in the exurbs of large metropolitan areas in 2000 –...