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Being the Change: Peter Kalmus Book Appearances

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Events, Reviews
...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

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Saturday Linkages
...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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Two Podcasts You’ve Got to Hear: Thinking Trees and Rewilding

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Podcasts, Trees
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...very unwild place in the Netherlands. In case you can’t get enough of our podcasts, let me suggest two other podcast episodes that will definitely be of interest to Root Simple readers and listeners: WNYC’s Radiolab released an episode, From Tree to Shining Tree which features the mind-bending research of Suzanne Simard. Her work shows that the root systems of forests form a sort of neural network, perhaps even a kind of plant consciousness. The...

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Top Six California Native Plant Performers

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Gardening
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...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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