Saturday Tweets: Low Hanging Fruit

September 15, 2018

Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks https://t.co/CMU0nQ37Ig via @motherboard — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 15, 2018 Should we consider using plants from warmer, more southern climates to help us deal with climate change (assisted migration)? This one study says perhaps not. Resiliency will require us thinking about the full complexity of adaptive plant systems.https://t.co/bcpmRMcTC9 pic.twitter.com/nkbHs2XmRi — Thoma...

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Saturday Tweets: Taking Back the Wheel

Mr. Homegrown

September 8, 2018

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Taking Back the Wheel https://t.co/zjRXht0UUP via @DissentMag — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 7, 2018 An increasingly powerful and influential social group is hard-coding its biases into the software running our societies. https://t.co/mbl8kgbTQe — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) September 6, 2018 New Video and Map Reveal L.A. Streetcar Transit History https://t.co/KALI187GtI via @StreetsblogLA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 8, 20...

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Saturday Tweets: Eating Flowers, Peach Mustard and the Patron Saint of Dentists

Mr. Homegrown

September 1, 2018

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A hummingbird feeder you can wear https://t.co/02alriKIZX — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 31, 2018 High daily exposure to the chemicals that are generated by forms of combustion—such as cooking, smoking, and vehicle exhausts—may cause molecular changes that accelerate biological aging. pic.twitter.com/SLqvn0G9Fh — HarvardPublicHealth (@HarvardChanSPH) August 26, 2018 Eating flowers seems almost heretical. If plants could talk, wouldn't the...

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Saturday Tweets: Touch Your Opuntia

Mr. Homegrown

April 14, 2018

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Did you know? Stamens of many Opuntia flowers respond to touch. #plantsarecool #pokingthings #cacti pic.twitter.com/rIqJMmgV3B — Jennifer Possley (@JennPossley) April 10, 2018 Eat. Mor. Figs.@CaFigs @ValleyFig https://t.co/RaSOARO7T0 — Ernest Miller (@RLMProvisions) April 13, 2018 One of the reasons I love this herbal so much is that, in addition to the beautiful drawings (mugwort in this instance), there are intricate scenes in the background of...

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Saturday Tweets: Bike Rants, Super Monster Wolf and Marginalia

Mr. Homegrown

March 10, 2018

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Blame the Computer https://t.co/jf9oT4Anw7 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 9, 2018 “Being the early 70s, parents took to the streets in protest, and a grassroots campaign, Stop de Kindermoord (“stop the child murder”) took off.” Before Vision Zero, the Netherlands made a stronger demand for safety. We need the same.https://t.co/qUbTYc3MOA pic.twitter.com/LT7UmqyAju — Peter Flax (@Pflax1) March 8, 2018 I love Katie’s comment. I don’t need to get...

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