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Mown and Blown: The Problem With Leaf Blowers

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Gardening
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...d, beauty or habitat. (They are also not enjoyed by people: half of the suburban participants in a UCLA study of home life in SoCal never went into their backyard. Another 25 percent went outside for a few minutes a week.) Yet this style of landscape is our dominant style of landscape because the homeowner doesn’t need to think about it, and the maintenance crews can move through the space with their machinery quickly. Volume allows these business...

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Ladies of Manure 2013 Calendar

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Composting, Humanure, Thoughtstylings
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...“Nope. Not even if civilization is burning down around my ears.” “Note to self: Never visit these people at home.” “They want me to keep poop around the house. Poop. Around my house.” “Hmm, I’m sensing some sort of potty-training trauma here. Definitely an unhealthy anal obsession.” “Funny, they don’t look like hippies.” It’s an hard nut to crack, the poop nut. This environmental non-profit called The Fertile Earth Foundation is going about in a...

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30 Years of Farmer’s Markets in Los Angeles

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Events
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...in Good Magazine’s booth at noon this Thursday September 3rd doing a free self irrigating pot (SIP) demo. Learn how to use a SIP to grow your own food even if you have no land to call your own. Best of all there will be a whole lot more to enjoy–see the amazing lineup here. The event will take place downtown at the Arts District/Little Tokyo Market at City Hall–1st and Spring Street. Chef demonstrations, a salsa contest and speeches kick off at 1...

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Seeds the Game

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Thoughtstylings
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...our area and garden needs. Seed points redeem for real prizes like seeds and coupons for garden equipment. Grow your own food and learn practices for permaculture and self-sustaining food systems at home! If you want to support the project they’ve got an Indiegogo campaign....

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Homegrown Revolution at the Silver Lake Film Festival

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Thoughtstylings
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...Echo Park Film Center, Homegrown Revolution’s debut video “How to Build a Self Watering Container” will premiere at the Silver Lake Film Festival, as part of the Sustainable LA program on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY May 6th at 11:30 a.m. at the LosFeliz 3 (1822 North Vermont Avenue-map). We’ll be sharing a program with composting Culver City comrade Elon Schoenholz, the Fallen Fruit dudes, and even the illustrious Midnight Ridazz, who have agreed to wak...

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