Saturday Tweets: Bikes, Sacred Lands and Watering Paradise

November 22, 2014

...in” outside #Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. pic.twitter.com/dvatSeBIt0 — Brent Toderian (@BrentToderian) November 18, 2014 Happy to see this sort of story at the local news level: Don’t rake your leaves, scientists say http://t.co/NTu6q3bUQ7 via @KING5Seattle — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 21, 2014 You can help protect an ancient sacred site in the Black Hills. https://t.co/sjd8Pxwgk9 Help Lakota #SavePeSlaNow — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November...

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Block Party Weekend

Mr. Homegrown

September 11, 2006

Thoughtstylings

...s Angeles is an army camped far from its sources of supply, using distant resources faster than nature renews them . . . Our region today is so dependent, so uninhabitable, yet so inhabited, that it must transform or die. Sooner or later it must generate its own food, fuel, water, wood and ores. It must use these at the rate that nature provides them. It can . . .” -Paul Glover Los Angeles: A History of the Future as quoted in the LAEV Overview Su...

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Leisure The Basis of Culture

Mr. Homegrown

March 6, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...he zenith of the Middle Ages, on the contrary, it was held that sloth and restlessness, ‘leisurelessness’, the incapacity to enjoy leisure, were all closely connected; sloth was held to be the source of restlessness, and the ultimate cause of ‘work for work’s sake’. It may well seem paradoxical to maintain that the restlessness at the bottom of a fanatical and suicidal activity should come from the lack of will to action; a surprising thought. Bru...

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Help! I’ve got Paper Wasps

Mr. Homegrown

August 2, 2016

Animals, Insects

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...’ve sat in that chair, with my head a mere four feet from my paper wasp buddies, for many hours and have never once been bothered. Biology Like honeybees, paper wasp are social insects. A mated queen lays eggs. But the similarity ends there. Paper wasp nests range in size between a dozen to 200 individuals. A honeybee colony can be made up of 60,000 workers or more. And honeybees only gather pollen and nectar. Paper wasps feed their young with pro...

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Saturday Tweets: Naked Gardening Day Edition

Mr. Homegrown

May 2, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...via @WGNNews — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 28, 2015 Don’t Let LA’s Trees Become Casualties of the Drought http://t.co/WScenSu8M6 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 30, 2015 Are you ready for world naked gardening day? http://t.co/QRDcDWRvSn — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 1, 2015 Research confirms inadequacy of codpieces in TV version of Wolf Hall http://t.co/iG9vGdUbIG — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 1, 2015 Via @Gawker, a TN school serves it...

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