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Are Pallets Safe to Reuse?

Mr. Homegrown
Composting, Design, Thoughtstylings
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...at Great Lakes Chemical Corporation, a supplier of methyl bromide, Methyl bromide products are restricted use pesticides. A certified applicator license is required to purchase and use these products and strict adherence to label directions/requirements is mandatory. Under normal fumigation conditions methyl bromide is a gas and when the pallets are properly aerated according to label instructions, virtually no methyl bromide residue remains...

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Teflon Coated Light Bulbs Deadly to Chickens

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
19 Comments
...to airborne toxins. I can’t help but wonder about the effect of these fumes on humans too. Several years ago, Dupont was unsuccessfully sued over the toxicity of Teflon in cookware. Sylvania, apparently, has a warning label on their Teflon coated bulbs, “WARNING: This product contains PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene–”Teflon” is a brand name). When heated, it creates fumes potentially fatal to confined birds.” G...

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Emergency Supplies: It’s all about the lids

Mrs. Homegrown
Domesticus, Preparedness
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...important documents. A few snacks in a five gallon bucket won’t feed a person forever, but it’s a start. It can make the difference between misery and comfort for the first day or two after a disaster. In disaster preparedness, don’t let the perfect get in the way of the good. Do what you can. Everything helps. With these two buckets we’ve got food and sanitation covered. The third big category–and perhaps the most v...

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Scott’s Pepsi-G Stove

Mr. Homegrown
Design, Preparedness
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If you’ve ever backpacked any distance you’ll appreciate the need to reduce weight, taken to its logical extreme by the sort of folks who cut their toothbrushes in half. This ultra-light subculture, to our benefit, seems to be populated by engineering types who like to create useful lists and detailed instructions. And, even if you don’t backpack, these innovative ideas can be used in your emergency preparedness plans. One of...

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SurviveLA Scoops Field and Stream

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness
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Looks like Field and Stream Magazine, the Robb Report of the guns and pickup crowd, has their own survival system in a Altoid can. We don’t like to brag too much here but in an earlier post, thanks to the folks at Illuminate LA, we featured a similar system with more items that is half the size. Speaking of Illuminate LA make sure to check out the handy preparedness info they have posted on the right side of the page as well as all the fu...

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Out of Water!

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness
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...how bad the roads are here on an ordinary day not to mention when a couple of bridges come down in an earthquake. This leaves us pondering keeping water in steel drums, which we first learned about in Aton Edward’s book Preparedness Now!, the first book in Process Media’s Self-Reliance series (our book the Urban Homesteader, due out in May, is the third in this series). It’s one of the more expensive options in water storage, wi...

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Saturday Linkages: Will Your Next House Be Built With Mushrooms?

Mr. Homegrown
Saturday Linkages
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...ol http:// lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2012/10/north- house-folk-school.html#.UHTSPhsTC2o.twitter  … HOWTO make a sandwich caddy out of a milk jug: http:// boingboing.net/2012/10/08/how to-make-a-sandwich-caddy-ou.html  … Preparedness Tegaderm 3M product for applying dressing over bleeding injury: http:// boingboing.net/2012/10/11/teg aderm.html  … How to Tell Time Like a Soldier | The Art of Manliness http:// artofmanliness.com/2012/10/11/ho...

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Make a Pepsi Can Stove

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness
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Preparedness means having a backup system for all of the things we depend on. If the gas goes out in an earthquake how are you going to cook? Thankfully the granola-crunching world of backpacking offers a number of solutions. Our favorite is the Pepsi can stove which you can build using these incredibly detailed instructions. [Editor's note 7/27/08: looks like the author of that Pepsi can stove site failed to renew the url and, sadly, the link n...

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Survival Chic

Mr. Homegrown
Preparedness
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It would seem that preparedness is now hip, with SurviveLA’s mention in a Los Angeles Alternative article entitled “Duck and Cover”. While the article correctly states that we at SurviveLA are on the more eco-crunchy side of things, we think it’s important to restate what we are not – we are not part of what Setha M. Low, an environmental psychology professor calls the “new emotions of home: fear and paranoia...

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