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Saturday Tweets: Mobile Markets, Big Oil and Public Transit Seat Covers

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Saturday Linkages
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...inLA) March 21, 2019 An incredible piece of storytelling on the dangers of lead paint—and how difficult it can be to know when it’s lurking in your home—by @awalkerinLA https://t.co/DSHpj2IAjX — Amy Plitt (@plitter) March 20, 2019 Super bloom creates new California natural disaster: tourism overflow https://t.co/adHKn7Wl3O — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 19, 2019 “We come into this life with nothing and we go with nothing.” The owner of beloved...

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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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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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There she goes, my beautiful world

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Design
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...aking some practice to get used to, are just as precise if not more so and lead to fewer catastrophic mistakes. Lastly, I can’t minimize how important it is to have a proper workbench. Other crafts such as sewing, metal work, electronics etc. are greatly facilitated by a proper and dedicated work surface as well. While expensive to set up, the workshop has paid for itself many times over. I’ve used it to make reproductions of furniture that would...

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