On the 100th Birthday of Our House: The Past and Future of Housing in the U.S.

January 8, 2020

Design

...bout sharing an apartment with relatives. Or getting your not-in-my-backyard neighbors to agree to a bus-only lane on an already congested boulevard. Or democratizing the workplace to ask for fewer hours for more pay to allow more time for cooking and child care. Or revisiting the bungalow court, granny flat or, gasp, looking to multi-generational communal living. These are tough ideas to contemplate from the luxury of our quiet and comfortable bu...

Read…

Saturday Tweets: Compacted Soil, Bikes and Mirrored Headboards

Mr. Homegrown

March 26, 2016

Saturday Linkages

3 Comments

...ght — Ed Joyce (@EdJoyce) March 24, 2016 Spirituality of food: how mindful cooking can spark gratitude – https://t.co/UiWCXxN4qr @binderpdx pic.twitter.com/ZMxkLYLO6U — Danielle Nierenberg (@DaniNierenberg) March 24, 2016 Lack of bike lanes & wrong way riding account for 13.6% of older adult fatalities in LA. Data busts stereotypes. #visionzero @VisionZeroLA — LACntyBikeCoalition (@lacbc) March 24, 2016 More plastic than fish in the sea by 2050. (...

Read…

Low-Tech Magazine

Mrs. Homegrown

April 19, 2016

Appropriate Technology, Podcasts

2 Comments

...ur favorite articles: How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware How to Downsize a Transportation Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots? Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, Not Spaces Recycling Animal and Human Dung is the Key to Sustainable Farming...

Read…

Deep Frying in a SolSource Solar Cooker

Mr. Homegrown

November 11, 2016

Food, Solar, Solar Oven Summer, Videos, Water and Power

3 Comments

...the streets and make donuts for The People! We’re also really pleased to find that we can hit deep frying temperatures with the cooker, even in November. We’ll be doing more videos about solar cooking in the coming weeks. The beignet recipe we used comes from King Arthur Flour. Note that we have a new Youtube channel. Please do us a favor and subscribe!...

Read…

Shakerato (Why don’t you come to your senses?)

Mr. Homegrown

July 6, 2015

Food

10 Comments

...caffé shakerato. A shakerato is an iced coffee mixed in a cocktail shaker. Making one is much easier than hauling yourself down to that dreaded temple of middlebrowedness whose green siren logo will lead us all to financial ruin and sugar-induced comas. No, you don’t need another Frappuccino. Making a shakerato is simple. Brew some strong coffee (espresso is best, but I don’t have an espresso maker). Let the coffee cool down (this is important–add...

Read…