National Heirloom Exposition!

...Blog posting will be lighter than usual around the Root Simple compound this week as I’ll be at the National Heirloom Exposition in Santa Rosa, California. I’ll be collecting stories for the blog and podcast. If you’re planning on coming to the expo drop me a line at rootsimple@gmail.com or @rootsimple on Twitter–I’d love to meet you! Save...

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Being the Change: Peter Kalmus Book Appearances

...ist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and our guest on episode 39 of the podcast, has a new book out, Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution. In the book Peter shows you how to slash your fossil fuel use to 1/10 the average and still live like royalty. If you’d like to hear Peter speak you have two chances: Wednesday Aug 9, 7:00pm: Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena Friday Aug 11, 7:30pm: The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angele...

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Saturday Tweets: Cooking in Clay, Cuteness and Pickles

...arden Rant https://t.co/Y84XRMZET4 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 22, 2017 Harvesting Electronic Components https://t.co/cP5r86jl03 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 22, 2017 Check out this podcast with my partner, Claudia West with Margaret Roach https://t.co/UiHBzK9YZe pic.twitter.com/1GN43Xkc2r — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) July 16, 2017...

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Top Six California Native Plant Performers

...lled the Wild Yards Project to encourage people to “restore native plant and animal habitat, one yard at a time, using native plants and trees wherever you live.” Note that this project is for people all over the US, not just in California. We’re going to have him on the podcast to discuss the project in depth, but before we do that I’d like all of you to join the Wild Yards Facebook and Instagram. David would especially like people to post before...

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