An All-Cement Chicken House

July 19, 2017

...ular coop, from a 1916 issue, I agree that, “Beauty certainly cannot be claimed.” And the production of concrete is an environmental nightmare so I, personally, would not build a concrete chicken coop. But the anonymous architect of this coop should get a few points for coop innovation....

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The Architecture of Bernard Maybeck

Mr. Homegrown

January 19, 2018

Design

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...st of us are mollusks, after all, and are shaped and sized by the walls we build around us. The Simple Home is a book length ode to the work of Maybeck and, alas, a manifesto for an architectural road not taken. Somehow we ended up with a world full of parking garages and mini malls. Let me, at this point, note that Keeler has the best ever author photo: Maybeck also had a good publicity photo: Is it time to bring back the smock? But I digress. He...

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Saturday Tweets: Bike Rants, Super Monster Wolf and Marginalia

Mr. Homegrown

March 10, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...) March 7, 2018 SBLA’s @JoeLinton on Musk’s freeway-tunnel scheme: highway builders say ‘If we build another freeway, congestion is going to get better.’ What we’ve seen is the opposite, the more capacity you have, the more congestion you get. https://t.co/0NG7qpSvHB — StreetsblogLA (@StreetsblogLA) March 5, 2018 Here’s my statement of realistic optimism: If everyone realized the true urgency of the climate emergency and acted accordingly, we’d “s...

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Worst of NextDoor

Mr. Homegrown

February 28, 2020

Thoughtstylings

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...nity is somehow more “open minded” than other parts of the country or that urban people are more progressive than rural people. These are stereotypes that I’ve been guilty of harboring in the past. We are all, myself included, easily sucked into the sort of hateful trolling that Silicon Valley has found a way to monetize on social media. How do you keep people glued to a website like NextDoor? Just offer the spectacle of your elder neighbors teari...

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127 Apocalypse Now with Father Mark Kowalewski

Mr. Homegrown

November 16, 2018

Age of Limits, Podcasts, Thoughtstylings

...t, seem off-topic. But I think it’s safe to say that within the DNA of the urban homesteading, permaculture and ecological movements is a concern with how the world might end and the possibility of either hastening, postponing or avoiding the collapse of human civilization. Then there’s the fact that a significant portion of U.S. government officials believe in some form of a “rapture.” Of course there are many divergent opinions on the nature of...

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