Washing Machine Greywater Resources

...eywater workshop at Good and for those of you who can’t, here’s a list of resources for using your washing machine as a irrigation source: The New Create an Oasis with Greywater: Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems by Art Ludwig. This is the bible of greywater. Follow Ludwig’s instructions and you can’t go wrong. Buy a copy via the link, and you’ll help support Homegrown Evolution. Ludwig’s open source Laundry to Landscape system. 1″ po...

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Fish Don’t Fart

...’s book Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide which comes out of their work at Austin’s Rhizome Collective. What all of these efforts have in common is a permacultural design principle of turning a waste product into a resource and closing a loop. Fish make fertilizer and plants clean water, so why not combine the two? I’d like to hear stories from ordinary folks who have tried aquaponics on a small scale. If that’s you, lea...

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Saturday Tweets: Bees, Fireflies and Food Waste

...Simple (@rootsimple) June 14, 2018 Worth reading: An Indian state banned pesticides. Tourism and wildlife flourished. Will others follow? https://t.co/MUYzsJkYbL — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) June 11, 2018 New study shows toddlers consume on average more than 7 teaspoons of sugar per day; 60% of children begin consuming added sugar before their first birthday. https://t.co/nPB2XajLto via @EurekAlert — Danielle Lee (@DaniLeeMPHRD) June 11, 201...

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136 Garden Fundamentals with Robert Pavlis

...chnique LED lights How to water houseplants You can find Robert at: GardenFundamentals.com, GardenMyths.com on YouTube and via the Garden Fundamentals Facebook Group. Also–subscribe to Bike Talk! If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing theme music by Dr. Frankenstein. A downloadabl...

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Saturday Tweets: Tweeterdämmerung

...ly talk about How to keep tomatoes healthy all season long, The value of Bees guest Erik Knute of @rootsimple https://t.co/ZyjCrFNMZ6 pic.twitter.com/w2nKthe0Bm — TheWIVegGardener (@TheWIVegGardenr) June 24, 2019 Why did most major car makers install fake pollution controls on millions of cars? Answer: competition among capitalists to profit from car production. Competition for profits is not some capitalist virtue; it has proven itself the cause...

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