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“Urban Homesteading” belongs to us all

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Urban Homestead Trademark Dispute
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...gistered trademark on both terms. Beyond that, some people found their web pages or social media sites removed when their hosting services responded to take-down notices issued by the Dervaes Institute, including Denver Urban Steading and Process Media/Feral House, the publisher of our book, The Urban Homestead. The good folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) stepped forward to help. One of their interests is protecting the commons of l...

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What we think about when we try not to think about global warming

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...I’m not so sure anymore. Because Stoknes addresses the realm of spirit in Part 3. Given the PowerPoint-ready stolidity of the first two parts of the book, it really surprised me that he went there. And at the same time, it was exciting to find an ally in an unexpected place, to find these more radical notions rising out of such a practical footing. What does he say? Well, that’s complicated. In brief, Stoknes asks us to combine the very practical...

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Will the Lawn Rebate Turn LA into a Gravel Moonscape?

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Gardening
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...ancestors could distinguish between hundreds of plants, but that ancestral memory has been hijacked by commercial interests. Now, instead of plant identification skills, we name and distinguish things like cars and mobile devices. If there was a kind of car rebate program that inadvertently replaced BMWs with Pontiac Azteks I would guarantee you that there would be blood in the streets. We need a new cultural narrative and a crash course in plant...

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Thomas Pynchon on Pizza

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Food, Thoughtstylings
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...silly post on cooking out of the Café Gratitude cookbook which triggered a memory of a passage in Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland. I don’t remember much about the novel but I do remember Pynchon’s spot-on description of 1970s era California health food cooking, Prairie worked at the Bodhi Dharma Pizza Temple, which a little smugly offered the most wholesome, not to mention the slowest, fast food in the region, a classic example of the California p...

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Twilight of the House Flippers

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Design
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...es. City & Soul (Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman Book 2 p. 141. Spring Publications.) Why cede beauty to the right twitter architecture bros, the ones with a Caesar portrait in their bio? They correctly identify a problem, “stuff is ugly” but misdirect the criticism to some kind of moral failing on the part of architects or house flippers, or worse, they blame immigrants or, inevitably, “the Jews.” They never name the actual culpr...

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