039 Climate Change and Be-cycling With Peter Kalmus

February 25, 2015

...guring out your carbon footprint. Avoiding flying. The carbon footprint of food. Becoming a vegetarian. Dumpster diving. Growing food. RIPE Altadena. You can find out more about Peter through his be-cycling website. You can also download an excerpt of his book-in-progress (pdf) and see slides from one of his talks (pdf). If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]....

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What does the loving landscape look like?

Mrs. Homegrown

April 16, 2015

Back to the Garden, Gardening

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...“less attractive” life stages of plants, we also deny our fellow creatures food and habitat in the form of seeds, stems and roots. And, of course, Oudolf is well known for doing the planting design at the High Line park in New York, a mile and half long section of abandoned elevated train track which first, was transformed by nature into a sort of secret park known only to urban explorers–and then, beginning in 2006, was refashioned into a much lo...

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Summer Solstice Celebration at Holy Nativity

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2015

Events

...ire campus. I will be speaking about saving water and greywater (three 15-minute talks, at 10, 11, 12) The open house will feature garden tours, oven explanation (the oven mud is now drying), highlights from other campus organizations like Teri Roseman’s LiveYoga Wellness, Patricia Rose’s Fresh-food-in-a-flash cooking classes, the Food Forward gleaning program, art tours by Steve O’Laughlin, and much more. Steve’s band will be performing 12-1, and...

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I’ve Flown the Coop

Mr. Homegrown

June 26, 2015

Animals, Chickens

...I’m at a two day poultry seminar sponsored by the California Department of Food & Agriculture. The point of my attendance is to learn good husbandry practices and share them with you, our dear readers. I’ll break down the voluminous information into a series of future blog posts. The takeaways from yesterday’s session: Buy chickens that have been vaccinated for Marek’s disease. This is the most common problem with backyard chickens and it’s entire...

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Saturday Tweets: Mobile Markets, Big Oil and Public Transit Seat Covers

Mr. Homegrown

March 23, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...s is so great (and a million times better than those ridiculous driverless food delivery pods): Metro Buses Converted Into Mobile Food Markets For Low Income Neighborhoods – https://t.co/ZRy2EHbp3q pic.twitter.com/gC8vQ4IB5D — Allison Arieff (@aarieff) March 22, 2019 I just testified as an expert witness to EU Parliament about ExxonMobil’s decades of climate denial + delay. Between being the first major hearing of its kind, a leaked Exxon memo, &...

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