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The Root Simple Workshop

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Design
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...bright orange/white/black color scheme. Our friend Lee Conger noticed the labeling on these cabinets that point to our overly eclectic interests: It’s like our heads need to be KonMaried! And fencing purists will note that the label should be “epee parts” not “swords.” Our three bikes and cycling accoutrements are kept locked to a pole. Always lock your bikes, kids, even when they are in the garage! The one last touch I want to add to the worksho...

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New Health Food Trends at the Natural Products Food Expo West

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Food, Thoughtstylings
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...y have some sort of wheat allergy. However, someone tell me why we have to label products like tomato sauce and raw chicken as being “gluten free?” Most new gluten free products, everything from pasta to crackers to power bars, use quinoa. The Natural Products Expo’s own trade publication noted that the exponential growth of quinoa consumption in the U.S. has created a situation in which the indigenous people of Peru can no longer afford their own...

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The Urban Homestead

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Publications
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...serve your own food, clean your house without toxins, raise chickens, gain energy independence, and more. Step-by-step projects, tips, and anecdotes will help get you started homesteading immediately. The Urban Homestead is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and internet resources on self-sufficiency topics. Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this copiously illustrated, two-color instruction book...

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Book Review: The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic and Peak Oil

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...rs and say they have to change. Stop those other people from using so much energy, please. Or we blame politicians. Or we hold on to hope we won’t have to change, not really, because science will save us. We’ll come up with a better energy source, soon right? Or we’ll find more oil. There’s always more oil. Greer asks us to free ourselves of these delusions and live clear-eyed in the reality of the situation. He lays out concrete suggestions on ho...

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Essential System #4 – Illumination

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Preparedness
...very American replaced one bulb with a compact fluorescent it would be the energy equivalent of taking 1.3 million cars off the road. But back to LEDs. For emergency purposes it might be wise to have a Forever Flashlight that requires no batteries. You shake the thing back and forth to run the light, with no batteries ever needed – the device’s only real disadvantage in fact is that the charging gesture, which uses Faraday’s principle of electroma...

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