Book Review: The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic and Peak Oil

October 31, 2012

...break anywhere else and figured all of my money may as well go there, rather than to a middleman. The least expensive option is the digital book, but at 10.00 GBP it is no steal, either. All forms of the book are available on this here page. The paperback version is (sorta)(sometimes) available at Amazon. A good, free way to get to know Geer’s thinking is to read the archive of his weekly blog, The Archdruid Report. Right now he’s doing something...

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Our Footprint

Mr. Homegrown

March 14, 2009

Thoughtstylings

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...Read the article about us here. There’s some irony about this, in that Mr. Homegrown Evolution is, as you read this, busting the household carbon footprint on an unexpected CLUI related business trip to a remote Swedish mining town in the arctic. Arctic journeys aside, the way we won the Low Impact contest is simple. We live in a small house and don’t drive much. That’s just about it. We can’t afford solar panels, and everything else we’ve done, s...

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Nopales Season

Mr. Homegrown

March 27, 2008

Food, Foraging, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...worked its way to Florida and Mexico. It may soon reach Texas and California. The USDA is hoping to halt the spread by releasing sterile moths. And speaking of Texas, for the next two weeks Homegrown Evolution will be in residence in Houston where it’s also nopales season. If we see any Cactoblastis cactorum, we’ll deal with them Texas style:...

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Veggie Trader

Mr. Homegrown

March 26, 2009

Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...our Wanted section and see which of your neighbors answers your request.” We plan on speaking to the folks behind it to get more details and hope to post the first Homegrown Evolution podcast about it soon. It will be interesting to see if the Veggie Trader takes off....

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Sky full of Paw Paws

Mr. Homegrown

February 18, 2009

Food, Gardening

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Mrs. Homegrown Evolution is deeply concerned about Mr. Homegrown Evolution’s midlife obsession with rare fruit trees. The California Rare Fruit Grower’s Fruit Gardner Magazine is the new Hustler around here. And now our fruit tree internet video porn needs have been satisfied. This week, the always superb Sky Full of Bacon video podcast from Chicago’s Michael Gebert serves up a tour of Oriana Kruszewski’s orchard which contains Asian pears, paw p...

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