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A Week Later

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Thoughtstylings
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...can come together around common ground. Also, partisan discussions online lead immediately to unproductive spates of bickering and trolling. But this time, it’s different. This time, silence seems the greater crime. This is a hard post to write. I keep ranting, then deleting. Okay. New plan. Let me tell you a story. Last Friday a small group of people from my church, St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, stood outside the Islamic Center of Southern Cal...

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092 A Mattress Made of Sand

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Domesticus, Podcasts
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..., she had a flash of inspiration. That inspiration would heal her back and lead them to start their own company: The Ultimate Earth Bed. Our conversation also ranges over the history of how people used to sleep, from ancient Rome to the patent on the first mattress in 1850, the ecological consequences of conventional mattresses and the connection between the Earth Bed and barefoot running. For those of you who can’t listen, we also posted about th...

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On the 100th Birthday of Our House: The Past and Future of Housing in the U.S.

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Design
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...ncrease in square footage and more consumer electronics. These differences lead to a difficult discussion about what a more energy efficient future might look like. Our future might be less about energy efficient tiny houses and more about sharing an apartment with relatives. Or getting your not-in-my-backyard neighbors to agree to a bus-only lane on an already congested boulevard. Or democratizing the workplace to ask for fewer hours for more pay...

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The Ultimate Earth Bed: A Mattress Made of Sand

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Domesticus
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...sessed with the idea of a mattress alternative for a while. Then she got a lead on an exciting bed option, and she shared it with us, saying basically, “I know this couple that you have to meet. They’ve made a bed out of sand!” So we went to meet Michael Garcia and Stephanie Wing-Garcia and their sand mattress. They live just a few minutes from our house, in a big, sunny apartment full of beautiful things–and they sleep on a king sized bed which c...

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Backyard in Progress

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Garden Design, Gardening
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...I made a bridge so that when it rains water will flow under the path that leads to our shed. This is why you hire an outsider expert: Kelly and I would never have thought of this rain garden or the idea of running the flow under the path. Yes, one of these days I’ll remove the bar code from that pipe! We plan on planting this area with native plants in the fall. Laramee and his crew also hauled up some rock to better define the paths in our yard...

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