Saturday Tweets: Bee Stings and Doughnuts

October 8, 2016

...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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Saturday Tweets: Mostly Instructables

Mr. Homegrown

January 2, 2016

Saturday Linkages

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...t.co/e2ZZeqJyp8 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 29, 2015 ARDUINO MPPT SOLAR CHARGE CONTROLLER (Version-3.0) https://t.co/BZNxlqfeO3 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 29, 2015 Flexible And Light Stone Material https://t.co/63Hk2gV4kc — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2015 How to create a fiber optic starfield ceiling https://t.co/N0LkvpmTHZ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) December 27, 2015 Hand-cut dovetails with a hacksaw ! https://t.co...

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A Plea to End Daylight Savings Time

Mr. Homegrown

November 2, 2015

Animals, Chickens, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...ast is an hour late. It’s bad enough that our clocks are an abstraction of solar time. Why do we need to add another layer of abstraction by changing our clocks rather than adjusting our lives to the passage of the seasons? This is the time equivalent of taking honest labor, abstracting it into money and then turning that into a collateralized debt obligation. As the layers of abstraction accrue, we lose touch with the rhythms of the rising and se...

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A Library for a Post-Electricity Future

Mr. Homegrown

July 2, 2015

Preparedness

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...ecent episode of WNYC’s On the Media took a look at what would happen if a solar flare or electomagnetic pulse zapped our access to the Interwebs. What will we do when we can’t Instagram our taco platters? One of the segments of the show profiles Rocky Rawlins, who runs a fantastic website, survivorlibrary.com. The library is a trove of pre-electricity how-to books, everything from building your own steam engine to beekeeping, navigation, parlor g...

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Saturday Tweets: Naked Gardening Day Edition

Mr. Homegrown

May 2, 2015

Saturday Linkages

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...on — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 Something from Nothing – DIY Solar heater from scrap bottles http://t.co/Ygle3ndjDD — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 CNN: Home-canned potatoes to blame for botulism outbreak http://t.co/cyjUmx4dNr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 Britain has a poo-powered bus. But does its design campaign stink? http://t.co/DBNhOmYD1T via @slate — Root Simple (@rootsimple) April 29, 2015 Where can y...

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