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Urban Homestead Trademarks Cancelled!

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Urban Homestead Trademark Dispute
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After six years of legal wrangling, “urban homestead” and “urban homesteading” belong to us all. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has cancelled the trademarks thanks to the hard work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the law firm of Winston & Strawn. Here’s the press release from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Urban Homesteaders Win Cancellation of Bogus Trademarks Global Community Had Faced Baseless Legal Claims and Content Remo...

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Water Conservation

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Water Conservation
...ider how to conserve: 58.7% Outdoor Water Clearly, the place to start with water conservation is outdoors, in designing a landscape that doesn’t need supplemental irrigation. Our rule around the SurviveLA compound is, once again, if you gotta water it you gotta be able to eat it. The vegetables that we grow are irrigated with a water-saving drip irrigation system that we’ll describe in detail in a later post. We have no lawn, and other than the ve...

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The Great Water Conservation Grift

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Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Water and Power, Water Conservation
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...ive and low-water landscapes. However, I believe these calls for household water conservation are a kind of misdirection from what’s really going on. In short, we as individuals are being blamed for a water shortage that would be better attributed to a class of Central Valley agricultural oligarchs whose profligate water use dwarfs what we use for our urban landscapes. Source: Public Policy Institute of California. Journalist Yasha Levine did a su...

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Non-Toxic Cleaning for the Home

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Cleaning, Domesticus, Miscellaneous, Tidying up
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...mild, very good for folks with allergies and gentle enough on the land and water to be used in a greywater system. You can buy them online or at some health food stores. Laundry Bags A new invention you may not have heard of are laundry bags created to collect fine plastic fibers shed by man-made fibers in washing. These teeny tiny bits of plastic fluff are called “plastic micro-waste” and they are becoming a big problem in our oceans. See guppyfr...

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Looking for the Union Label

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Domesticus
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...d a highly catchy ad jingle from the roller disco era, “Look for the Union Label” (youngsters can watch it on youtube here). We looked for the union label and we were surprised to find it via a company called Union House which carries a functional, if unexciting line of apparel. Unless hipsters take to golf shirts in an ironic fashion judo move, these offerings will never be cool like the domestically made clothes made by the union busting folks o...

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