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It’s Official: The End is Near

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Preparedness
...es and ads in the WSJ is our favorite game to play in the morning over our coffee. We’re not alone in playing this game. Richard Jackson, Director of the CDC National Center for Environmental Health connected the dots with stories in the WSJ during a brilliant lecture we heard earlier this month at a public health conference (read one of Dr. Jackson’s papers on our screwed up built environment here). Jackson held up the morning’s paper and pointed...

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Kent’s Composting Tips and Secret Weapon

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Composting, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
...on’t use the pile to consume large quantities of leaves, I just add enough of them to keep things in balance. It easily keeps up with my kitchen scrap production and gives me a rich, dark compost about like coffee grounds when it is done. I draw finished stuff off at the bottom occasionally. Or, if I want to use the whole batch, I stop adding to it for a few weeks so it can digest everything....

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Revolutionary Rusks

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Bread, Food
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...ntainer, rusks are good to eat for 2-3 weeks. We enjoy dipping them in our coffee. Also, they’re great cycling snacks because you can throw them in a jersey pocket; they’re good all day without refrigeration; and they provide a quick simple-carb fix, as well as protein and complex carbs. The recipe we use is from the “Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Ethnic and Regional Recipes From the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurant” To make the most of your t...

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Tomato Can Stove

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Preparedness
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...ove based on the Penny Wood Stove by Mark Jurey for heating up that pot of coffee when the gas and electricity go out. It’s a bit simpler than the Pepsi can stove and doesn’t require fuel other than some sticks or small scraps of wood. The stove works on the same principle as a charcoal chimney starter and it is simple to build. 1. Use a 28 ounce can – I used a Trader Joes tomato can. First, drill a bunch of 1/8 inch holes in the bottom. 2. Next,...

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Weekend Linkages: Christmas!

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Saturday Linkages
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...Well, this certainly does sound like an…unusual Christmas party Christmas gift ideas from medieval manuscripts A sensible seeming Twitter thread on where we’re at Covid-wise Takeover: when the Young Lords took over a hospital in the Bronx Caffè Shakerato (Italian-Style Shaken Iced Coffee) Recipe Sonoma County farm strikes black truffle gold after 9 years of waiting Some very cool trains...

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