Essential System #3 – Sew Your Own Damn Clothes

October 6, 2006

...nsiderably easier. Dress forms can also help – here’s how you can make one yourself. Most importantly we need to reclaim sewing from the old ladies of the Midwest and make it . . . revolutionary. We think the best way to jump start this new sewing revolution would be to bring back brother Eldridge’s radical “Cleavers”....

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The End of California Citrus?

Mr. Homegrown

September 11, 2009

Food, Gardening, Pests

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...on process. This is an approach that mimics one of the fundamental laws of evolution: survival of the fittest. True, there is often a trade off between the flavor and yield of a fruit and strength of its natural defenses. Oranges are juicier and easier to peal than the spiny and seed filled fruit of the prickly pear cactus. But the long term odds of having a reliable supply of prickly pear fruit are a lot higher than a steady flow of orange juice....

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Saturday Tweets: Your Own Personal Disney Castle

Mr. Homegrown

February 16, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...the 210th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Here’s his theory of evolution in pictoral form: pic.twitter.com/IWfL36bf2A — Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) February 12, 2019 Westminster Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, built in 1887 and demolished in 1960. An excellent example of a mid-rise Victorian building, which one could just as easily imagine as an apartment building. I can't imagine too many complaints if new apartment buildings look...

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Saturday Tweets: RIP Mary Oliver

Mr. Homegrown

January 19, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...tter.com/m3xhIUYBIc — Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) January 13, 2019 "Evolution may have less to do with rising above one’s peers than learning to get along with more of them." The first #TeamHuman excerpt has been published on Medium! https://t.co/B3fA5JR7uo And yes: get the book! — douglas rushkoff (@rushkoff) January 14, 2019 These LA teachers striking against privatization + demanding smaller classrooms/more support for their students is...

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Age of Apocalypse

Mr. Homegrown

May 31, 2013

Age of Limits, Thoughtstylings

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...ion that seems beyond the capacity of humans at this stage in our cultural evolution, anyway. So in lieu of doing the actual hard work of fixing these problems in the present, we fantasize instead about life afterward. The crisis of global warming morphs into the fantasy of living off the grid. The treat of a terrorist attack on our office tower leads us to purchase an emergency personal parachute for easy egress, and to wonder how far up the org...

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