039 Climate Change and Be-cycling With Peter Kalmus

...guring out your carbon footprint. Avoiding flying. The carbon footprint of food. Becoming a vegetarian. Dumpster diving. Growing food. RIPE Altadena. You can find out more about Peter through his be-cycling website. You can also download an excerpt of his book-in-progress (pdf) and see slides from one of his talks (pdf). If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]....

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Garden Like a Pirate

...ning involves claiming unused land that does not belong to you for growing food crops. The first bit of land we hijacked was our own parkway, that bit of dirt between the sidewalk and the street that technically belongs to the city, but is the responsibility of the homeowner to maintain. It’s yet another space, like the vast asphalt hell of parking lots, garages, freeways, car lots, auto repair shops, and junkyards in our car-obsessed city dedicat...

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117 Raw Milk with David Gumpert

...or editor of Inc. David is the author of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights, The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights and the Raw Milk Answer Book. You can find his blog and sign up for his newsletter at The Complete Patient. One of the things that comes up in the conversation is the dairy episode of the Netflix documentary Rotten. David posted a review of that episode on his blog. If you’d like to leav...

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Saturday Tweets: The Weather, Moletakers and More Cats

...k. #DeathToFalseTruffleOil https://t.co/W0McFqq78f — Josh Lurie-Food GPS (@foodgps) September 16, 2017 If you are driving at night, stop your car, turn off the ignition, and throw your keys into a sewer. https://t.co/qZ41i15RPH — Bicycle Lobby (@BicycleLobby) September 23, 2017 Plastic bollards should be regarded as temporary bandaids waiting for a more permanent design to be funded. https://t.co/uHb9yZ2Aho — Jim Charlier (@TheCharlier) September...

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Saturday Tweets: Halloween Edition

Just How Much Food Do Cities Squander? https://t.co/Tj7lhYlQdQ via @WIRED — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 27, 2017 When drivers start going on about a "War on Cars," remind them that cars in the city are a war on our children.#obesity #crashes #pollution pic.twitter.com/hlomv2sMJ1 — Taras Grescoe (@grescoe) October 24, 2017 Pictures Reveal Life Inside Tiny Futuristic Cubes https://t.co/NCmeuJMO2A via @NatGeoPhotos — Root Simple (@rootsimple)...

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