Saturday Linkages: Cheese Powder and Torpedo Bikes

Cheese powder anyone? Cheese powder: What is it?: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/14/cheese-powder-what-is-it.html … Heat Your Clothes, Not Your House http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/11/heat-your-clothes-not-your-house.html … Heat Your Desk, Not Your Office http://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/11/heat-your-desk-not-your-office.html … Bog Butter: Storing Food in Soil http://www.notechmagazine.com/2013/11/bog-butter-storing-food-in-soil.html … Appe...

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Cargo Bikes Rule the World

It’s hard to improve on a design as simple and elegant as the bicycle. It’s a bit like trying to redesign the fork or chopstick. But every once in a while a new idea comes along. We could debate the merits of the spork, but I’d rather focus on the current cargo bike revolution taking place in the workshops of bike builders around the world. One such innovator is Lane Kagay who operates a one man cargo bike/rack operation out of Eugene Oregon call...

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Saturday Linkages: Rocket Stoves, Big Cargo Bikes and Shopping for the Apocalypse

Image: BoingBoing. The Flying Tortoise: A Very Gorgeous Little Rocket Mass Type Terracotta… http://theflyingtortoise.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-very-gorgeous-little-rocket-mass-type.html?spref=tw … How to mount staghorn ferns in your garden http://bit.ly/1nosn5W #diy Getting to the root of gardening’s role in mental wellness | Victory Gardens Blog | http://buff.ly/1o3lIkd Darrel Morrison’s Addition to the Brooklyn Botanic… http://landscapeofmeaning.b...

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Saturday Linkages: Ducks, Bikes and Body Care

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSZmV_3Lm_A Bare-chested Russian orders ducks to attention, marches them into barn http://boingboing.net/2014/08/05/bare-chested-russian-orders-du.html … Journey Around Copenhagen’s Latest Bicycle Innovations! http://www.streetfilms.org/journey-around-copenhagens-latest-bicycle-innovations/#.U-FrZgGAlcY.twitter … This is exactly why we make our own body care products: http://tinyurl.com/mp3bmov The Flying Tortoise:...

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Saturday Tweets: Pallets, Knots, Bikes

Turning a Trashed Mobile Home into a Shop https://t.co/G8c5W2LI39 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 17, 2016 How to Hide Anything, a free booklet https://t.co/sVlsMr3x74 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 18, 2016 The Pallet Bible: Finding, Inspecting, and Dismantling Pallets https://t.co/zgNYOcePvm — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 19, 2016 Knots to Know https://t.co/9zubxLXwO9 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 19, 2016 I love these guys. Hummingbird...

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