Saturday Tweets: Danes and Their Garbage, Big Food and #BlackCatAppreciationDay

August 22, 2015

...nument? http://t.co/BajPa0tpNt — Glen Dake (@GlenDake) August 19, 2015 Big Food is Spending Millions to Lobby for Less Transparency | Civil Eats http://t.co/KU5kxIKUlx — Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) August 19, 2015 Mozz education! . RT @SlowFoodHQ: Mozzarella: 10 Tips to Help you Choose the Real Thing http://t.co/rUzhWijh0d pic.twitter.com/k1V5FxSi0U — Evan Kleiman (@evankleiman) August 19, 2015 Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of favorable research: th...

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Romanesco broccoli cameo lights up Star Wars film

Mrs. Homegrown

December 30, 2015

Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening

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...ed as a food, as it should be–as opposed to ivy vines being presented as a food crop in Maze Runner– it is an Earth food, so it’s interesting that the film makers decided to include it as part of the scenery. The only other edible in the movie is special effect-based alien food–I won’t be spoilery and say any more about that. The Star Wars world isn’t posited as our future world, as the Star Trek world is–it’s a mythic world, somewhere long ago an...

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Saturday Tweets: Bees, Fireflies and Food Waste

Mr. Homegrown

June 16, 2018

Saturday Linkages

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...ttps://t.co/vxw4HwbP6d — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) June 13, 2018 Reduce food waste to combat world hunger & slow global #climatechange. @UCANR teaches the compost solution. https://t.co/k1S3tUTgmw pic.twitter.com/keYBmIGzUB — Jeannette Warnert (@jwarnert) June 13, 2018 Love is always at the service of others. Because love is seen in actions, not words. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 15, 2018 When you can’t sleep [Louis Wain, c. 1890] pic.twitt...

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Weekend Linkages: Spiders and Fast Food Ghosts

Mr. Homegrown

July 17, 2022

Saturday Linkages

...Michael Grave’s original plans for Portland City Hall had a little town on top via @jmfowl. Two Men Had To Be Extinguished After Catching Fire At Goop Store A beautiful art book about spiders LA Restaurants Are Breathing Life Into the Architectural Ghosts of Fast-Food Past China Miéville: “If you don’t feel despair, you’re not opening your eyes” Energy use from US cryptomining firms is contributing to rising utility bills...

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Shou-sugi-ban: Charring Wood as a Preservation Method

Mr. Homegrown

July 28, 2016

Design

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvhvR8KwWhw Shou-sugi-ban 焼き杉 is a Japanese method of charring cedar boards. The method is simple. You char the surface of the wood, scrape it with a metal brush and apply a sealant. The charring creates a protective layer and also, surprisingly, makes the wood more resistant to fire. The technique extended the life of exterior cladding in a country where wood was a precious commodity. The technique fell out of fav...

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