Self-Righteousness Fail: We Bought a Car

November 11, 2013

At least we got something interesting to drive. Image: Paleofuture. Back in March, a video producer who was texting-while-driving slammed into me and totaled the early 90’s hatchback that Kelly and I shared. We went from a one car household to a car-free household overnight. A combination of environmental guilt and distaste for car shopping led us to a six month car free living experiment in Los Angeles. That period ended in late September when w...

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LA ecovillage: self-reliance in a car-free urban homestead

Mr. Homegrown

June 20, 2014

Bikes, Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Transportation

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...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdQGozSavz8 Johnny, who shot that nice video of us for faircompanies.com just made another video about our friends at the LA ecovillage. It’s well worth a view. Some of the most amazing folks in Los Angeles live there. And I like that fact that’s it’s an ecovillage smack dab in the middle of my beloved hometown. Make sure to also check out Johnny’s blog Granola Shotgun....

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Los Angeles: A New Beginning

Mr. Homegrown

February 15, 2019

Appropriate Technology, Bikes, Thoughtstylings, Transportation

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...trim the sails and plot a course for a different utopia . . . Los Angeles, 2025 Enveloped in the white arc of a exploding battery, the mayor’s self driving electric limo careened off the road and ground to a halt along side of a mini mall convenience store at the corner of Temple and Alvarado. Who knew that the limo’s algorithms favored raccoons over human passengers? Three hours later an autonomous ambulance pulled up. “I’m Siri the paramedic,”...

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Non-Toxic Cleaning for the Home

Mrs. Homegrown

May 20, 2019

Cleaning, Domesticus, Miscellaneous, Tidying up

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...ach used in household cleaning is not a big threat to the environment it itself, the production of bleach itself creates dangerous bi-products which are serious environmental pollutants. The proper use of bleach as a disinfectant: For food preparation surfaces, ordinary bathroom cleaning, cleaning children’s toys and changing tables: Mix 1T of chlorine bleach in a gallon of warm water. Wipe down surfaces with this solution and air dry. For the mos...

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What’s Buried in Your Backyard?

Mr. Homegrown

October 2, 2017

Thoughtstylings

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...e’s a handy page for dating bottles, scans of antique bottle catalogs, and page after page of bottle types. My unintended archaeological efforts have yielded no Spanish doubloons, viking graves or Anasazi ruins, but I have found lots of glassware, mostly broken milk bottles. I’ve also discovered what I think are cheap perfume bottles like the one above. If you know what this bottle contained please leave a comment. I suspect perfume, because this...

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