Saturday Linkages: New Format!

September 7, 2019

...structure by David A. Banks Spritz Cookie Gravestone Man Spends 30 Years Regenerating NZ Farmland into Amazing Forest Democrats’ Climate Plans Lack Vision for City Transit Study Finds Urban Runoff Is a Toxic Soup Containing Dozens of Pesticides and Other Industrial Chemicals The shady politics of urban greening Surprise dip!...

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24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

Mr. Homegrown

May 6, 2022

Reviews, Thoughtstylings

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...anipulators. Echoing bourgeois fears in the late nineteen century following 1871, the idea of a commune derived from any form of socialism remains systemically intolerable. The cooperative, as a lived set of relations, cannot actually be made visible–it can only be represented as a parodic replication of existing relations of domination. In many different ways, the attack on values of collectivity and cooperation is articulated through the notion...

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Saturday Tweets: Happy Feet and Sad Feet

Mr. Homegrown

July 20, 2019

Saturday Linkages

...ive, or Not So Much? https://t.co/DVO4novEGO — Benjamin Vogt (@BRVogt) July 18, 2019 Plant Parenthood https://t.co/01XQzgUiW1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 18, 2019 “It is in our hands to make of our world a better one for all.” – Nelson Mandela Today let us honor #MandelaDay as he taught us that we have the power to make that change. — Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) July 18, 2019 When Trump says, If you don’t like, it leave it,” people I know say it...

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Kickstart the North Memphis Farmers Collective

Mr. Homegrown

July 31, 2015

Gardening, Urban Farming

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...stories, there’s a happy ending. What began in one yard has grown into an urban farming movement transforming vacant lots into sources of food and jobs. There’s a Kickstarter: The City of Memphis faces many challenges. Among them are blighted vacant lots, food deserts, health challenges, and unemployment. North Memphis Farmer’s Collective seeks to take these challenges and turn them into solutions by using what others see as waste as the fertiliz...

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What are trees worth?

Mrs. Homegrown

August 20, 2015

Fruit Trees, Gardening, Nature Awareness, Permaculture, Thoughtstylings, Trees

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...ich cools the ground, which cools the environment at large, countering the urban heat island effect. They also cool the air by passing water through their leaves. A healthy urban forest makes for a much more liveable city for us all. (The city of Melbourne understands this.) And trees clustered around your own house make your home cooler in the summer, reducing your energy bills. Low lying cactus and succulent plants do little or nothing nothing t...

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