Lead in Backyard Eggs: Don’t Freak Out But Don’t Ignore the Issue

...d ate more than three eggs a day. I’d suggest that if you live in an older urban location, next to a gas station or other industrial site or a recently burned area you may want to get your eggs tested. Odds are that your backyard eggs are safe to eat but, as the study showed, some of the lead results were well over safe levels. Here’s what UC Cooperative Extension suggests if you have a lead issue, Once potentially contaminated areas are identifie...

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Saturday Tweets: Mobile Markets, Big Oil and Public Transit Seat Covers

...ps://t.co/sLRc08vnOk — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 23, 2019 Seeing the Urban Forest for the Trees – Blogs | Planetizen https://t.co/f2FZWJv7BO — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 23, 2019 Thread. https://t.co/lv4UhsW3tJ — The War on Cars (@TheWarOnCars) March 22, 2019 Virginia transit officials tried out Elon Musk’s tunnel in Los Angeles County, and here’s what they took away from it: “It’s a car in a very small tunnel.”https://t.co/mVhMKzMYJ5 —...

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Scooters? Not a New Idea

...8 · New York Herald (New York, New York) · Newspapers.com It turns out the urban scooter craze isn’t a new idea. From a story in an October 8, 1916 newspaper, “Skidding Through Fact and Fancy on an Autoped: Solo Devil Wagon Taken Up in a Serious Way Might Add New Terrors to City Life” is a description of motorized scooter not all that different than the ones we see today: You stand on the cute platform and get your feet neatly fitted on the rubber...

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The Sound is Forced, the Notes are Few

...otentially deadly disease that is killing people all over the world). As a urban homesteading/DIY blogger and author I’ve attempted a few of those how to “be” under quarantine hot takes and I’ve even spent part of my time making bad watercolors. I even wrote a post about that later effort (part of a longer post about learning old school architectural drawing) but never hit the publish button because it just didn’t feel right. A large part of that...

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For the Locals . . .

On that foot sign Alissa Walker, one of my favorite journalists, covers urban design here in Los Angeles. She wrote a great piece on our nieghborhood’s iconic podiatrist sign. Walker agrees with me that we need much more than kitschy signs to mark our neighborhoods. She concludes, We need more reminders of what history predates our presence. We need more streets that are designed to connect us instead of being fast-forwarded through in cars. We n...

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