Non-GMO Versions of Grape Nuts and Cheerios Less Nutritious Than GMO Versions

...h a “non-GMO” label. In the case of Cheerios and Grape Nuts, the “non-GMO” label is either a marketing gimmick or an attempt to start a voluntary labeling program to head off voter mandated efforts. Here’s where you can help. I need to kick my Grape Nuts crack habit and find a healthier breakfast alternative. Any suggestions? Note from Mrs. Homegrown: This post took me by surprise. Erik has eaten Gravel Nuts–I mean, Grape Nuts–for breakfast since...

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Root Simple Busted: Drying Racks, Clothes Lines and Cheese Puffs

...the dryer issue yesterday when I admitted to using it. She noted how much energy dryers use and how she ditched hers many years ago and has never looked back. We have a gas dryer which means that, while we use less energy than an electric dryer, we’re still complicit in the use of fossil fuels. In short, fracking is supporting my attempts to parry, riposte and flèche. The truth is that we had a clothes line for several years when we first moved i...

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Essential System #4 – Illumination

...very American replaced one bulb with a compact fluorescent it would be the energy equivalent of taking 1.3 million cars off the road. But back to LEDs. For emergency purposes it might be wise to have a Forever Flashlight that requires no batteries. You shake the thing back and forth to run the light, with no batteries ever needed – the device’s only real disadvantage in fact is that the charging gesture, which uses Faraday’s principle of electroma...

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Saturday Tweets: Rocket Emissions, Tarkovsky and Borges Quoting Furby

...CMsjS via @Verge — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 14, 2018 "To improve energy security, we need to make infrastructures less reliable". Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security https://t.co/vQajUrme0v pic.twitter.com/sAUZyd3ObO — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) December 10, 2018 Fumigate your home with the Colonel’s salty musk!https://t.co/1j1eTsQXaG — The Baffler (@thebafflermag) December 14, 2018 Don't miss our big 10...

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That Time I Got Deplatformed

...ithm when the company rejected an ad he had taken out for his blog post on energy security. Energy security article again censored by Facebook. They forbid me to boost the post: fake news. Because Facebook obliges me (and other publishers) to boost posts in order to reach all subscribers, this means roughly 9,000 followers won’t see it cause FB decides so. — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) December 14, 2018 This incident combines the idiocy of...

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