Initial Thoughts on the Age of Limits 2013 Conference

...e do know that whatever happens, good or bad it’s in our interest to build community, grow gardens and eat healthy food. Back to Kelly: As Erik says, we’re both agnostics in terms of outcomes. We know it looks bad, but we won’t make bets on when, where or how the badness, or the various badnesses, will manifest. It seems a poor bet to try to predict the behavior of any enormously complex system. But just because we don’t know exactly what’s going...

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Satan’s Easter Basket is Filled with Plastic Easter Grass

...round this morning, especially because Echo Park surrounds a lovely little urban lake full of birds. Read on to find out why. 4 Excellent Reasons to Avoid Plastic Easter Grass and use all of your influence to make sure other people avoid it, too: Domestic cats and dogs eat Easter grass and it can cause intestinal obstruction. Cats are particularly attracted to its stringy texture, but dogs might also gobble it up when they raid a kid’s Easter stas...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Ants, Bikes and LA as Heat Island

...r 26, 2015 The World’s Nuttiest Bike Lane NIMBYs Live in a San Diego Beach Community http://t.co/5OYs7Hk4nA via @StreetsblogUSA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 26, 2015 Steel and 2×4 Full Dining Table Set http://t.co/LDdjPiJsHJ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 24, 2015 Waterproof Pouches, Almost Free! http://t.co/imr4cBHhcy — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 24, 2015 4 Days Camping – No Cooler http://t.co/Fs9MbsMCFd — Root Simple (@r...

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Saturday Tweets: Danes and Their Garbage, Big Food and #BlackCatAppreciationDay

...15 Check out @NatGeo and their #rat story. https://t.co/PYnA7ARjmJ — SoCal Urban Wildlife (@SCUWMCouncil) August 20, 2015 Spectacular, swirling custom-built stone walls and furniture via @BoingBoing http://t.co/duIaDhKwPo — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 21, 2015 Scientists study the impact of the drought on California's giant sequoias http://t.co/xduhylrmol via @SFGate — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 21, 2015 Latest Video: how to grill s...

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2022 in Review: Cats, Mushrooms and Politics

...could keep an eye on the feral cat population that some nice folks in the community had helped me trap and neuter. We managed to capture and neuter four out of the five cats that live at the cathedral. They are way too feral to adopt out, unfortunately. We’re hoping to capture and neuter the last one this next year. Meanwhile, in our own house I keep finding our cat Buck in the bathtub, holding a mouse and staring at the faucet. Every spring I ca...

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