Happy May Day! Boycott Amazon, Whole Foods Target and Instacart

May 1, 2020

...ons by supporting Amazon, Whole Foods, Target and Instacart workers and not crossing their picket line. Workers at these dystopian corporations are walking out during their lunch break to ask for protective equipment, hazard pay, paid sick leave, cleaning supplies and contact tracing. Chris Smalls, a former Amazon worker fired from his job for complaining about conditions tweeted, “It’s time to join up! Protect all workers at all cost we are not e...

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Greywater Precautions

Mr. Homegrown

December 5, 2006

Water Conservation

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...use your greywater immediately. Use only detergents and soaps designed for greywater systems such as Oasis Biocompatible Cleaning Products....

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That Time I Got Deplatformed

Mr. Homegrown

December 26, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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.... It could also have been a simple credit card problem. Or maybe they were cleaning up things ahead of being purchased by Chase. But I have no way of knowing since WePay refused to disclose their reasoning. Kris De Decker, who runs the awesome blog Low Tech Magazine just had the experience of getting caught in a Facebook “fake news” algorithm when the company rejected an ad he had taken out for his blog post on energy security. Energy security art...

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Soap as a Furniture and Floor Finish

Mr. Homegrown

April 6, 2018

Cleaning, Domesticus

...u take on this annual chore. And that’s the only catch: like wax, you have to re-apply at least once a year as part of a household wide soapy cleaning ritual. More detailed info on soap finishes here....

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Kelly Update and a Great Podcast

Mr. Homegrown

December 9, 2016

Domesticus

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...s this blog focuses on do not get counted by economists. All that cooking, cleaning, gardening, child and elder care count not one bit towards the sorts of calculations economists obsess over such as gross domestic product and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This is particularly unfair to women who tend to be more responsible for what happens in the home. And let’s not even get into the ethical difficulties of placing a dollar value on human bei...

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