Saturday Linkages: Cat Houses, Office Gyms, Cooking in Compost and More . . .

...yms Treadmill Desk http://livingsmallblog.com/2010/06/07/treadmill-desk/ … Bikes Next Steps For The Bike Movement In Santa Monica (p. 2/2) http://la.streetsblog.org/2012/11/20/next-steps-for-the-bike-movement-in-santa-monica-p-22/#.UKwAP7vnRYI.twitter … One for the Dustbin: The 85th Percentile Rule in Traffic Engineering http://streetsblog.net/2012/11/16/one-for-the-dustbin-the-85th-percentile-rule-in-traffic-engineering/#.UKhxrZ-16m0.twitter … Fo...

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Root Simple Visits Simparch’s Utah Compound

...posed WWII era Quonset hut. Water is biked in with specially adapted cargo bikes. Solar power pumps the water up to the tower where it is heated by the sun in a black drum. A solar panel array and batteries provide more than enough power, all day and all night, to run power tools and pump some tunes out on the powerful stereo system. The composting toilet features, what must be the most stunning view to be seen from any toilet seat perch in the wo...

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Saturday Tweets: Styrofoam Catamarans, Bulb Mistakes and Luxury Bunkers

...://t.co/Du53Wi0rDf via @thr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 29, 2016 Bikes shipped in boxes with TV set printed on box suffer less delivery damage https://t.co/yuMp7iVVKh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 26, 2016 Garden hermit needed. Apply within. https://t.co/DQyD5TaVyH via @BostonGlobe — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 24, 2016 The soft sexism of functioning pockets https://t.co/TC0vt2HU25 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23...

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082 Get Outdoors with Jeff Potter

...r who runs outyourbackdoor.com. We talk about cross country skiing, riding bikes paddling boats and even eating road kill. You can find Jeff’s non-lycracentric cross country ski how-to videos in his Out Your Backdoor Youtube channel. During the podcast we also ponder the question, “If you could have only one bike what kind of bike would it be?” We get into canoe vs. kayak, how to roll a kayak and the joys of cyclocross. Make sure to check out all...

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Saturday Linkages: Fueling Up

...r-home-homemade-briquettes-and-logs/ … Thoughtstylings Mark Bittman: A Simple Fix for Farming http://nyti.ms/VjNlZb Fueling up: http://we2our2.blogspot.com/2012/10/fueling-up.html … Health The Island Where People Forget to Die http://nyti.ms/S3Mitk Bikes Nice graphic showing why taking the lane is a good idea. http://ow.ly/eIgHH (via Commute Orlando) From the Root Simple Archive Appletastic Apple Cake https://www.rootsimple.com/2010/12/applet For t...

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