Weekend Linkages: Summer Heat, Oaks and QAnon

...e via @aic_ancient. 100 British chairs When Old Oaks Fall Nabhan: Food and Farming Crisis Requires Both Science and Faith Is Geotagging on Instagram Ruining Natural Wonders? Some Say Yes California’s yoga, wellness and spirituality community has a QAnon problem Uber and Lyft Donated to Community Groups Who Then Pushed the Companies’Agenda California dodges worst of historic Pacific Northwest heatwave, but long-duration heatwave still likely inland...

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Saturday Linkages: Comfrey, a Parking Rock Star and Voracious Worms

...hippies http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/marijuana-weed-pot-farming-environmental-impacts … Voracious Worm Evolves to Eat Biotech Corn Engineered to Kill It – Wired Science http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/03/rootworm-resistance-bt-corn/ … Adapting to Climate by Being a Nomad within your own House http://feedly.com/e/M3JFioqL Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley http://la.streetsblog.org/2014/...

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Journal of the New Alchemists

...ottom-up work of refining conventional organic agriculture through no-till farming and integrated pest management had more long lasting influence. One could make a good argument that you need the domes and aquaculture schemes to inspire people to work on the more prosaic stuff. But another criticism of the appropriate technology movement of the 70s is that it focused on technology rather than social and political problems (see economist Richard S....

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“Interstellar”: Leaving the farm for the stars

...e the scientist literally saves mankind. This dualistic set-up–Science vs. Farming or really, as the story plays out, Science vs. Earth is a very bad model, yet it is the one we are presented with over and over again. You’ve heard the quote attributed to Einstein that says something along the lines of “We’re not going to solve our problems by using the same thinking we used to get into trouble”? I feel like we are swimming deep in those problemati...

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Saturday Tweets: From Archery to Jaywalking

...ot Simple (@rootsimple) January 19, 2015 Freeze those career plans: icicle farming is officially a thing. http://t.co/2cjhaDCZNC pic.twitter.com/kFTunijWod — Modern Farmer (@ModFarm) January 19, 2015 Why low-tech living is back | via @Telegraph http://t.co/4vJiXyL1hR — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 18, 2015 Countertop agriculture–8 vegetables you can regenerate: http://t.co/0DP8Aj3SMl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 18, 2015 Sweden is now...

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