Saturday Tweets: Lost in Translation

April 6, 2019

...taurants. That’s beginning to change. https://t.co/WpPyyvqKHU — L.A. Times Food (@latimesfood) April 1, 2019 Most people have no idea how much climate damage they’re doing when they fly in planes.https://t.co/eIv5M6mLEC — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) April 2, 2019 I looked at the Spanish websites of the 2020 Dems and found typos, incomprehensible phrases, and whole paragraphs that match Google Translate. As my mother would say, it’s a . Me in @pol...

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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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The Luddite’s Moonshot

Mr. Homegrown

June 4, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...list of things they can help with: Mediterranean gardening with perennial food crops. Mammalian garden invasions, i.e. those infernal squirrels/raccoons/skunks. Meal preparation for busy people. I realize the tech bros have taken up this problem with services such as Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. But I think there’s a better way we can do this at home without the shipping and packaging. Preventing food waste in the home. Internet distraction/news a...

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Tiny House Dweller as Contemporary Hermit in the Garden

Mr. Homegrown

November 4, 2016

Thoughtstylings

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...k for his pillow, an hour-glass for his timepiece, water for his beverage, food from the house, but never to exchange a word with the servant. He was to wear a camlet robe, never to cut his beard or nails, nor even to stay beyond the limits of the grounds. If he lived there, under all these restrictions, till the end of the term, he was to receive seven hundred guineas. But on breach of any of them, or if he quitted the place any time previous to...

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117 Raw Milk with David Gumpert

Mr. Homegrown

April 25, 2018

Food, Podcasts

...or editor of Inc. David is the author of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights, The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind Americas Emerging Battle Over Food Rights and the Raw Milk Answer Book. You can find his blog and sign up for his newsletter at The Complete Patient. One of the things that comes up in the conversation is the dairy episode of the Netflix documentary Rotten. David posted a review of that episode on his blog. If you’d like to leav...

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