See Homegrown Revolution this Saturday!

...doing a brief appearance at the Los Angeles Burning Man Decompression this Saturday October 13th in support of our book The Urban Homesteader, due out next May from Process Media. The Burning Man Decom will take place on Sante Fe between the 4th and 6th Street Bridges in the Artist District deep in the beating heart of downtown Los Angeles (map). We’ll be delivering a harangue sometime around 4 or 5 pm. Come out and see us and stay for the sacrifi...

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Lessons and Carols this Saturday

...d look and sound like, drop by St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral at 5 pm this Saturday December 15th for an evening of Lessons and Carols. The Choir of St. John’s Cathedral presents beautiful lessons & carols for the season of Advent and the Vigil of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The service begins in darkness and moves toward resplendent light at the high altar, featuring music by Palestrina, Willcocks, Tavener, Howells, and others. Compliment...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Flowers, Peach Mustard and the Patron Saint of Dentists

A hummingbird feeder you can wear https://t.co/02alriKIZX — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 31, 2018 High daily exposure to the chemicals that are generated by forms of combustion—such as cooking, smoking, and vehicle exhausts—may cause molecular changes that accelerate biological aging. pic.twitter.com/SLqvn0G9Fh — HarvardPublicHealth (@HarvardChanSPH) August 26, 2018 Eating flowers seems almost heretical. If plants could talk, wouldn't the...

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Saturday Tweets: Toilets, Energy and Deep Old Age

How much energy do we need? https://t.co/T8YSsPY1s0 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 A Lesson in Sharpening https://t.co/ZfP9sLMW40 via @rudemechanic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 Toilet History Museum @atlasobscura https://t.co/EjpAxKshLf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 A Lesson in Sharpening https://t.co/ZfP9sLMW40 via @rudemechanic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 27, 2018 The elite belief in Uberized...

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Saturday Tweets: LA’s Grim Streets, Being the Change and More Medieval Marginalia

At some point, Vision Zero has to become more than yet another PR campaign designed to make him look like he's ready to president: Garcetti backpedals, proposes more modest increase in VZ funding https://t.co/tAPLLYAQdD — sahra (@sahrasulaiman) April 20, 2018 A new documentary is out about Being the Change! Do all you can. 🙂 https://t.co/IlesTIsHNF — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) April 20, 2018 China escalates the war on jaywalkers with automa...

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