Weekend Tweets: The Orchid Mantis, Self-sufficiency and Self Driving Cars

...El Niño Update: Joke’s on SoCal Edition https://t.co/mXNTOOcapd via @wordpressdotcom — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 10, 2016 DC Used to Fly the Skull and Cross-Bones to Mark Each Traffic Death https://t.co/XQsKvA5Zx1 via @StreetsblogNet — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 10, 2016 The History Of How Los Angeles Became A City Of Palm Trees https://t.co/aknEUgXWGl — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 9, 2016 We don’t need self-driving cars – we need t...

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081 Foraging for Wild Foods With Leda Meredith

...or of five books including Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plums to Wineberries. Her new book is The Forager’s Feast: How to Identify, Gather, and Prepare Wild Edibles. During the podcast we discuss: The ethics of foraging in city parks Eating invasives Is foraging sustainable? Mallow foam Vegan mallow mayonnaise Dandelion beer Foraging in Israel Foraging in the winter Eating bark . . . and, of course, prickly pear Le...

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Saturday Tweets: Our Insect Friends, Miso Soup and What Your Library Should Look Like

...Cool Tools: CT Issue 03/19/2016 – https://t.co/ejP6tUlOsw — Mark Frauenfelder (@Frauenfelder) March 19, 2016 NYTimes: Miso Soup Delivers Deep Weeknight Flavor – https://t.co/mSNXbtgbSA A giant bowl of this vegetarian dish can make for a satisfyin… — Eric Rochow (@GardenForkTV) March 19, 2016 Wicked Simple Cheddar Biscuit Recipe – GardenFork https://t.co/aC8BKTbvfE — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 19, 2016 Huge culture red flag – previous triple...

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075 Visionary Architect Glen Howard Small

...Small at Large and at glenhowardsmallarchitect.com. Glen was one of the founders of the architecture school SCI-Arc and is probably best known for his visionary Biomorphic Biosphere Megastructure, which we talk about during the podcast as well many other projects and buildings such as the Downtown Troposphere and the Green Machine. Green Machine 1977-1980 He was also the subject of a documentary by his daughter Lucia Small, My Father the Genius....

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055 Guerilla Furniture Design

...board architecture Holman’s Instructables projects Guerilla Design principles: Honesty, utility, economy and beauty Ikea hacking Open Works – the makerspace Will is helping build in Baltimore Opendesk Will’s website Objectguerilla.com If you want 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. The theme music i...

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