Salsa Dancing in a World Without Oil

...r. LOVE APPLES is a collaboration between the art collective Fallen Fruit (www.fallenfruit.org) and Islands of LA (www.islandsofla.org). The artists of Fallen Fruit investigate urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community all through the lens of fruit. Islands of LA is an art project that is turning traffic islands into territories of art to create community, foster discussion and explore the use and availa...

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Tippy Tap, Beta Version

...mess. A small trench filled with gravel will do the trick. My tippy tap is hanging above highly mulched ground, so the water just soaks into the mulch. Other sources for tippy tap information: A very simple set of instructions (this one is available in many languages): http://www.tippytap.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/How-to-build-a-tippy-tap-manual.pdf More detailed instruction in PDF form: http://www.wot.utwente.nl/publications/tippy-tap.pdf A...

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Urban Homestead Trademarks Cancelled!

....” For the full opinion from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: https://www.eff.org/document/opinion-cancelling-trademark For more on this case: https://www.eff.org/cases/petition-cancel-urban-homestead-trademark Contact: Corynne McSherry Legal Director corynne@eff.org We’d like to thank the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Winston & Strawn for coming to our aid pro bono. We’d also like to thank Gustavo Arellano of the OC Weekly, Mark Frauenf...

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SurviveLA becomes Homegrown Revolution!

...ng our name to Homegrown Revolution (www.homegrownrevolution.org). Stay calm, our content will stay the same. All the old links and posts will stay where they are and our old url (survivela.blogspot.com) will still work, but please updatilate your servilators. Please bear with us while we make the switchover as it’s hectic in the new Homegrown Revolution computer lab:...

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