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Saturday Tweets: Bee Stings and Doughnuts

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Saturday Linkages
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...n Rant https://t.co/VTZltXQKTu — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 Solar Power Bucket https://t.co/lskD7gXZi1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 5, 2016 The Truth About Tiny House TV Shows https://t.co/YTAEBuaC7H — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 Perhaps ecological and cultural restoration efforts are about rekindling hope and wonder https://t.co/4PHjWNARtK — Root Simple (@rootsimple) October 7, 2016 It’s Now Legal to Share Seed...

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Simple Tech

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Thoughtstylings
...PPRTECH” section which consists of detailed information on everything from solar stills to pedal powered devices. Much of the tech info for third world counties is a strict one-way proposition. The university educated experts parachute in to offer advice to the locals but don’t bother to take any lessons back. Sometimes this arrangement goes bad when the technology developed by the “experts” breaks down when the parts can’t be sourced locally. The...

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Post Petroleum Lecture

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Miscellaneous
...raining Center at The Farm community in Summertown, Tennessee, inventor of solar cars, pedal flour sifters and cylindrical tofu presses, and author of eleven books, including Shutdown: Nuclear Power on Trial (1979) and Climate in Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect and What We Can Do (1990). His Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times (New Society 2006) envisions the world as it will be transformed by peak oil and climate...

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Sweatin’ Pipe

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...know, in fact SurviveLA thinks it should be taught to elementary school children. Home owners, renters and kids all should know how to put pipe together with a blow torch since you never know when a pipe is going to burst, not to mention being able to construct some of the solar water heating projects we touched on last week. The tools needed for this job are cheap, and thanks to youtube, we have this dude to show you how to do it. We don’t know...

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