Saturday Linkages: Forklift Furniture and Pickled Turnips

February 9, 2013

...t-dog-encrusted shrimp tempura pizza, with mayonnaise: http://boingboing.net/2013/02/06/pizza-hut-chinas-hot-dog-enc.html … Yuckylicious: Salami Bouquet http://yuckylicious.blogspot.com/2013/02/salami-bouquet.html?spref=tw … Urban Farm Magazine owner BowTie sold – Business – The Orange County Register http://www.ocregister.com/articles/bowtie-414242-fancy-company.html … For these links and more, follow Root Simple on Twitter: Follow @rootsimple...

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Saturday Linkages: Grains, Collapse and Mangoes

Mr. Homegrown

March 29, 2014

Saturday Linkages

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...-to-fcc-grow-light-ballast-causes-hf-interference-violates-rules … Granjas urbanas ganan terreno en Los Ángeles http://tinyurl.com/ozxeley How sustainable is digital fabrication? http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/03/how-sustainable-is-digital-fabrication.html … Winners and losers at the garden show | Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2014/03/seen-at-the-garden-show.html … How to Grow Sweet Potatoes and Mangoes in an Urban Jungle http://tinyurl.c...

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Dystopia Report: The I-710 Corridor Aesthetic Master Plan

Mr. Homegrown

January 11, 2022

Design, Thoughtstylings

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...reeway builder’s utopian promise of speed and liberty delivers, instead, exurban sprawl, congestion and waves of urban decay and gentrification. That utopian vision of Freeway building is personified in mid-century figures like Robert Moses and the city fathers of early 20th century Los Angeles. But Jameson goes on to question, “does anyone believe in progress any longer? . . . are the architects and urbanists still passionately at work on Utopian...

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Root Simple Busted: Drying Racks, Clothes Lines and Cheese Puffs

Mr. Homegrown

March 16, 2015

Appropriate Technology, Water and Power

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...the dryer issue yesterday when I admitted to using it. She noted how much energy dryers use and how she ditched hers many years ago and has never looked back. We have a gas dryer which means that, while we use less energy than an electric dryer, we’re still complicit in the use of fossil fuels. In short, fracking is supporting my attempts to parry, riposte and flèche. The truth is that we had a clothes line for several years when we first moved i...

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That Time I Got Deplatformed

Mr. Homegrown

December 26, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...ithm when the company rejected an ad he had taken out for his blog post on energy security. Energy security article again censored by Facebook. They forbid me to boost the post: fake news. Because Facebook obliges me (and other publishers) to boost posts in order to reach all subscribers, this means roughly 9,000 followers won’t see it cause FB decides so. — lowtechmagazine (@lowtechmagazine) December 14, 2018 This incident combines the idiocy of...

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