Root Simple is 10 Years Old

...elete it. The parkway itself is, ironically, still a work in progress. Our podcast, now in its 89th episode as of this week, also had two false starts but is going strong. Much ink could be spilled on the influence on bloggers like us of events such as 9/11, Katrina, Y2K, climate change and the 2008 economic meltdown on this blog and others like it, but that will have to wait for another post or even a book. Another blog post could be written on h...

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Tree Bondage

...you do a class announcement. Robert Kourik, our guest on episode 69 of our podcast, sent me an email that had me laughing and wishing that I lived in Northern California so that I could attend his upcoming talk: Tree Bondage: and solutions I’ll show dozens of misshaped, abused and tortured trees, from mangled roots, to poorly-tended trunks and grossly manipulated canopies. I will show photographs of trees in bondage and discuss healthy alternative...

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Emily, We’ll Miss You

...ist. Los Angeles, we’re losing Emily Green. Green was on episode 20 of our podcast to discuss how to shift the mow, blow and go landscaping paradigm here in LA. Green wrote often about this problem as well as the consequences of climate change in our region. She’s was unafraid to take on LA’s corrupt and hypocritical politicians. Her voice here will be missed and there’s no replacement. I hope she’ll keep up her blog Chance of Rain. If you haven’t...

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Holy Scrap on the Road

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=156&v=IM8OPqJnOHE The Holy Scrap Hot Springers, our guests on episode 18 of the podcast are spending seven months touring the US in their pimped out Honda element. In this video Wendy and Mikey show off their 35 square foot “Hondominium” from which they run an eBay based business out in the middle of nowhere/everywhere....

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Saturday Tweets: Artichokes, Rants and Rare Bee Art

...://t.co/AURlMEUlyw — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 24, 2015 Another great podcast from @GardenForkTV: #bees #weightloss and #BBQ: http://t.co/d2Exgap3op — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 24, 2015 Support #Westwood bike lane #completestreets #greatstreetsLA @lacbc call or email Councilman #PaulKoretz 213.473.7005 [email protected] — Joel Epstein (@thejoelepstein) July 23, 2015 Pictures: Rare Bees Make Flower-Mud "Sandwiches" http://t.co/5LFMWU...

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