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A Victorian Life

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Design
A conversational tangent on our podcast this week, in which we mentioned Victorian interiors, prompted Root Simple reader Misti to leave a link to a blog post about Dennis Severs’ amazing Victorian house in London, Dennis Severs was a Californian who left the land of palm trees and bright tan landscapes and came to London in the late 1960s. After giving up on studying law and driving a horse-drawn carriage, in 1979 he bought a derelict eighteenth...

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A Celebration of Craft

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Bread, Food, Gardening, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardening
...tomato farmer and breeder Fred Hempel who was a guest on episode 79 of our podcast. Like Miller, Hempel has a humility that goes along with a sincere engagement with the natural world. Like Miller he’s more than happy to discuss his craft. A third person I met at the festival is Alice Doyle, owner of Log House Plants a wholesale nursery in Eugene Oregon. In her lecture she went alphabetically through a list of edible plants she thought were intere...

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Federico Tobon’s Handcrafted Password Generator

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Design
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...avorite artist-makers. He was a guest on episode 8 of the Opposable Thumbs podcast, a show which issues a creative challenge for their guests to complete. Federico had to tackle the topic of “crafting security.” His response was to make this beautiful wooden object that, when manipulated, generates strong, multilingual passwords. Federico’s inspiration was an xlcd comic that has some excellent password security advice: On the podcast and his blog,...

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Peter Kalmus Arrested in Climate Change Protest

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...ng but there wasn’t a peep about it with the exception of the excellent LA Podcast. @ClimateHuman chokes up speaking when talking about his son and why he’s chaining himself to Chase bank entrance, along w three other scientists: pic.twitter.com/r2vt8YDy3n — Erin Stone (she/her) (@Erstone7) April 6, 2022 Peter was a guest on episodes 39 and 116 of our podcast. You can follow him on Twitter at @ClimateHuman. There’s a fundraiser for his and other a...

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Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Gardening, Nature Awareness, Reviews
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...The Intelligence of All Kinds of Life. I remember first listening to this podcast while walking around our neighborhood one evening at twilight. As she spoke about the intelligence of all living things and the importance of our relationship with plants, how we are meant to love and live in a respectful, reciprocal relationship with the natural world, tears came to my eyes because the things she was saying were the things I have always believed–al...

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