Bottom-up Urbanism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8x4CWBMsPg&t In another great video from Fair Companies, Johnny Sanphillippo gives a tour of his Sonoma County rental property. Johnny describes himself as a “rodent who scurries about finding the opportunities other don’t recognize.” A lot of the things he talks about in the video are things we’ve done in our own very small Los Angeles house, such as adding sheds and making the garage space usable, all strategies...

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Shoe Fail!

...hoes all to minimal versions made by the same company: Vivo. Kelly tried a competing company Lems and reports the same good results. There definitely was a few months of getting used to not having any support and learning to walk as mother nature intended us to walk. I’ve even proven that you can fence, a sport that requires a considerable amount of bouncing and jumping, in minimal shoes. This is also a perfect opportunity to clarify that I’m not...

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Garden Fork on Raised Beds

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMb8efz8Aiw Keeping with the raised bed theme this week, Eric of GardenFork just did a video about redoing some basic raised beds. In the video he covers the different types of angle brackets you can use to reinforce the sides as well as touching on the treated vs. untreated lumber debate. Plus there’s lots of labrador action (and non-action)....

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Keeping Doors Secure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnmcRTnTNC8 While this lecture is mostly about the types of doors you’ll find in institutional settings, there’s some important and actionable security information for our homes and apartments. In the talk, security consultant Brian Rea a.k.a. “Deviant Ollam,” shows far simpler ways to enter buildings without out either picking the lock or busting the door down. For those of us who own our own houses Rea shows some...

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