Camping on Halloween Night

November 11, 2014

...t significant rain in maybe 9 months or so. All night long the wind in the trees roared and boomed–it sounded like waves crashing on rocks. The rain sheeted down on my tent while the wind shook the sides. (A five year old tent which has never been tested in the rain–that’s SoCal camping for you!). It did not leak, thank the Great Pumpkin. I have to say, I have never been happier on any Halloween. At dawn I woke up to a world soggy and remade. The...

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I Made a Mallet

Mr. Homegrown

August 30, 2017

Design

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...ow of: Allied Woodshop, Community Woodshop and Ceritos Community College. I hear that the folks at Allied Woodshop are soon to open a business selling wood from locally felled urban trees. There are a lot of exotic trees in LA, so it will be interesting to see what people do with results of LA’s poor tree maintenance....

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Los Angeles: A New Beginning

Mr. Homegrown

February 15, 2019

Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Thoughtstylings, Transportation

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....” “Maybe that’s why we need ttttttt . . . trrrrrrr . . . trrreeeees . . . trees,” replied the mayor. “What’s a tree?” asked Lauren. “I think it’s some kind of self growing thing that makes oxygen and shade,” replied the mayor. “Won’t they block the solar panels?” asked Lauren. “Ba, ba, bu, buuuuuu . . . bus,” said the mayor. “Huh? Mr. Mayor are you okay?” said Lauren. “It’s . . . it’s like a car but carries over 100 people,” said the mayor. “We’l...

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Our Hot Streets Are an Opportunity

Mr. Homegrown

September 6, 2019

Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Design, Transportation, Water and Power

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...s 120.8º F (49.3º C). Being a crank I have two conclusions: 1. Let’s plant trees. 2. How about instead of painting streets gray we do something really radical and pull them up entirely and start cooling people rather than serving cars? According to the Los Angeles Times, “Recent research has found that when manufacturing emissions are taken into account, most cool pavements hurt the climate more than they help.” So, as is typical for our mayor Eri...

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The Prints of Frances Gearhart

Mr. Homegrown

September 23, 2019

Design

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...Honor gift shop. Methinks we could all benefit from having more images of trees and mountains in our lives in addition to surrounding ourselves with, well, real trees and mountains. Museums should also include more work by women artists who make up just 2% of the world art market. If you’d like to see more of Gearhart’s work check out francesgearhart.com. The Minneapolis Institute of Art has an exhibition open through March that includes some of...

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