Saturday Tweets: Eating Ants, Bikes and LA as Heat Island

September 26, 2015

...oot Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2015 LA Gets More Added Warmth from Urban Heat Islands Than Anywhere in the State http://t.co/PU9msfbCRb via @CurbedLA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2015 Dan Price’s underground home, art & philosophy on $5,000year – videos – *faircompanies http://t.co/B9DJHXQj7e via @faircompanies — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2015 The Vegetable Detective, Take Two http://t.co/TIStMrDQml — Root Simple...

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Saturday Tweets: Let’s Get That Triforium Working Again!

Mr. Homegrown

December 5, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...mple) December 5, 2015 What is the Triforium, and why should we rehabilitate it? https://t.co/PidixDxKDI via @KPCCofframp pic.twitter.com/HoC8Bfm8UX — 89.3 KPCC (@KPCC) December 5, 2015 Urban+Transport+Without+the+Hot+Air:+confusing+the+issue+with+relevant+facts!+https://t.co/XlSybNCpY0 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 3, 2015...

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Root Simple: 2015 in Review

Mr. Homegrown

December 29, 2015

Thoughtstylings

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...p. I’m not optimistic about this but I hope to be proved wrong. Honesty in Urban Homesteading We don’t do nearly enough blogging about the many hair brained notions and failed projects that transpire here at the Root Simple Compound and Labs. We did mange to chronicle a few of our shortcomings, such as our lack of a clothes line (Busted: Drying Racks, Clothes Lines and Cheese Puffs), the train wreck that was our summer garden (Our Disasterous Summ...

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078 Mark Lakeman on City Repair

Mr. Homegrown

March 14, 2016

Design, Permaculture, Podcasts

...the community architecture and planning firm Communitecture. He is also an urban place-maker, permaculture designer and community design facilitator. And if you’re on the West Coast of the US, you have a chance to participate in a series of workshops this month. For more information visit marklakeman.net. To find out about events in Los Angeles visit change-making.com. If you want to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 5...

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I Made a Mallet

Mr. Homegrown

August 30, 2017

Design

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...that I know of: Allied Woodshop, Community Woodshop and Ceritos Community College. I hear that the folks at Allied Woodshop are soon to open a business selling wood from locally felled urban trees. There are a lot of exotic trees in LA, so it will be interesting to see what people do with results of LA’s poor tree maintenance....

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