Thinking Local

...e used to see each other socially outside the closed domains of our homes, making the kind of meanness and dissension we’ve seen here in Silver Lake less likely to happen. This is not to say that things were perfect when we had more affiliations. You could also get groups like the KKK. And the demands of households where both partners must work means that we have less time to gather in the evening. But these are not a reasons to live lives of lone...

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Saturday Tweets: Happy Feet and Sad Feet

...ketday) July 16, 2019 I’m assuming L.A. bike and housing twitter have seen the opening of Americathon. It’s a dream and a nightmare.https://t.co/RYv7y7OtE0 — Sean Meredith (@seanmeredith) July 15, 2019 We’re testing more AVs than ever and traffic deaths keep going up 📈 We’re making more EVs than ever and emissions keep going up 📈 Just a hunch here but maybe automakers aren’t going to solve these problems for us 🤷🏼‍♀️https://t.co/oHoLicQc6F — Aliss...

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Saturday Tweets: Parsley Poodle Sandwich

...Y6yEREr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 13, 2019 Watch Netflix at work by making it look like you’re on a conference call https://t.co/0CmD0kgVLy — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 10, 2019 I’m in a wheelchair or pushing a baby along. How do I get around this? @LADOTofficial @davideryu #shermanoaks pic.twitter.com/cbqaZP2Rxs — CiclaValley (@Ciclavalley) July 12, 2019 Let’s do this in LA starting with the section of the 2 freeway between Glendale an...

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Why I’m Growing Vegetables in a Straw Bale

...ecause his philosophy demands that you to focus intent on the garden, thus making the act of gardening a kind of sacred duty. But, this winter, I’ve still got a lot of tasks to complete and don’t have time to develop either a biodynamic compost pile or, gasp, thoughtstyle my way to some new, alternative method of sacramental gardening. So I decided to try straw bale gardening again. My last attempt, that I blogged about and even did a video of, wo...

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