Saturday Linkages: Dirt Floors, Bike Lanes and More Skunks
...Wrong with California http://wp.me/p15BT4-vJ On the (Very Smelly) Trail of the Skunk Takeover http://shar.es/11Gppy Free astronomy resources and apps: http://ow.ly/B5ogp...
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015 Worm Composting and Skunks
...osting rocks! Our wood worm bin. Kelly’s post on basic worm composting and resources. Santa Monica College’s worm bin. Skunks The BirdCam Pro (how I discovered that my skunk proofing did not work. Our skunk proof vegetable bed. Our late dog’s skunk hunting adventures. What are we reading Worms Eat My Garbage by Mary Appelhof. Bread: A Global History By William Rubel. Kelly mentions Werner Herzog’s Happy People: A Year in the Taiga. If you want to...
How many ladybugs can you find? The Lost Ladybug Project
...ybugs!!! Check out their website. It looks like a fun thing to do, for both kids or grownups. Part of the fun is learning to tell the difference between the different types of ladybugs. There’s lots of educational resources for homeschoolers and teachers. And yes, there’s even an ap for it. It might be a little late in the year for the best counting, but I’m going to go out in the garden and see what I can find....
Saturday Linkages: Mobile Pods, Soil Erosion and Getting Doored by a Porta-Potty
...stainable.html … Man on bike strikes porta-potty door; two hurt: http://bit.ly/1pisQdq Could a medicine used to treat gout also save our citrus? http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/could-a-medicine-used-to-treat-gout-also-save-our-citrus … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...
Water Conservation
...l can be reduced. It’s generally far easier and less expensive to conserve resources than it is to resort to the latest techno-eco-gadgetry. So let’s count down the major sources of domestic water use (according to percentages calculated by the American Water Works Association Research Foundation) and consider how to conserve: 58.7% Outdoor Water Clearly, the place to start with water conservation is outdoors, in designing a landscape that doesn’t...