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Mown and Blown: The Problem With Leaf Blowers

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Gardening
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...to keep their landscapes in a form easily serviced. In other words, it’s a self-perpetuating cycle. And it’s a cycle we can’t afford anymore, for so many reasons. And for me, our reliance on leaf blowers is emblematic of all these problems. I struggle with how to tackle the leaf blower problem. In a perfect world, the mow and blow crews would get horticultural education that they could then use to charge a living wage to maintain ecologically bene...

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The Future is Biomorphic

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Design
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...hear one. Here’s Small describing life in one of his BBMs: Your house is a self-contained personal flying module whose soft surfaces can be adjusted to any configuration from smooth planes to womb-like curves. These surfaces–walls, floors and ceiling–can also change in color and opacity. Are you feeling gregarious? Then live a while in completely transparent surroundings! Are you feeling reclusive? Dial walls of any color to shut out the world! Yo...

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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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Let’s Talk About the Holidays

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Thoughtstylings
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...Enjoying the Holidays.” Like Shannon, we also don’t want to come off as a self-righteous Scrooge or further our lifestyle as fodder for future Portlandia scripts. At the same time I’m also haunted by the tension between tradition and its conflict with modern life (note Habermas’ 2010 dialog with Jesuit scholars if you want to fall down a ponderous and inconclusive philosophical rabbit hole). Then there’s what I call the fake snow on Hollywood Bou...

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Campfire Cooking: Fish in Clay (& Vegetarian Options!)

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Food, Foraging
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...enough for a delicate trout, but plenty good for carrots. Just gather yourself a bundle of green grass. Pascal likes some fallen leaves mixed in with the grass, for the earthy aroma that adds. Do be careful that you don’t accidentally pick up some poison hemlock leaves or other poison or irritating plants when you grab your grass. Lay your big leaves out, as for the fish, then put down a fat layer of tangled grass, then top that with your veggies...

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