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Saturday Linkages: Controversy Edition

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Saturday Linkages
Gardening Homegrown polenta? Floriani corn plants deliver ‘amazing flavor’ http://fw.to/2ju3QtE The High Line in Person by Susan Harris http://gardenrant.com/2013/08/the-high-line-in-person.html?utm_source=feedly … Knocked Out—and not in a good way by James Roush http://gardenrant.com/2013/08/knocked-out-and-not-in-a-good-way.html?utm_source=feedly … Hackin’ Open Tech Forever: permaculture/open tech startup: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/21/open-...

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Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands

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..., even if their form and their origin are heterogeneous.” -Jacques Derrida Homegrown Revolution loves cheap low-tech solutions (not to mention pretentious quotes), which is why we especially like “bricoleur” and Tucson rainwater harvesting guru Brad Lancaster and his ongoing book series Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands. Volume one is already out and volume two is due out this summer. Landcaster’s ingenious methods involve little more than careful...

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Chicago Kit Houses

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...sion of a tiny house. Need a barn? They’ve got you covered. Want to open a store? They’ve got a plan for that too. The catalog contains customer testimonials such as this one from an early house flipper: Dear Sirs: We received the material for the house and was [sic] greatly pleased with the same. Everything was exactly as represented in your catalog and the lumber was of far better quality than I could have gotten here at a higher price. Before w...

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Saturday Tweets: Bike Rants, Super Monster Wolf and Marginalia

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...across the city in five minutes, I need to Be able to walk to the grocery store safely. https://t.co/1KXu1yf1OL — Damien Newton (@DamienTypes) March 7, 2018 Historian Peter Norton, author of “Fighting Traffic,” on how the auto industry engineered a hostile takeover of public street space in the 1920s. https://t.co/jxk5pn1n6q — John Lloyd (@boyonabike62) March 7, 2018 SBLA’s @JoeLinton on Musk’s freeway-tunnel scheme: highway builders say ‘If we b...

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