Saturday Linkages: Beetle Party, Floating Homes and Cilantro

June 9, 2018

...browsing #goatsquad #citygoats #urbanagriculture @ucanr @ucdavisvetmed @UCUrbanAg pic.twitter.com/98Noy6XipG — Alda Pires (@piresalda1) June 9, 2018 First time I’ve seen a canoe being towed on the downtown #yeg bike grid. #yegbike pic.twitter.com/QcemoJhr2M — Damian Rogers (@abcrimlaw) June 7, 2018 Vacant land and urban agriculture are rejuvenating wild bee populations. Bees love cities. What can cities do to love them back? https://t.co/A7mrxmd5...

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Homegrown on Homegrown

Mr. Homegrown

October 21, 2008

Resources

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The Gathering Storm

Mr. Homegrown

January 11, 2025

Thoughtstylings

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...5 off on a dark note. Yesterday, on my evening dog walk, I found a charred page from Winston Churchill’s book The Gathering Storm that must have come from one of the many destroyed homes in Altadena, carried aloft by hurricane force winds a distance of 12 miles. We have never lived in Altadena but Kelly and I both feel a deep connection to the place. We met a lot of people there in the years after our two books came out. Altadena is the kind of pl...

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I Deleted my Facebook Account

Mr. Homegrown

April 23, 2018

Thoughtstylings

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...n-target information. Facebook knows that I’m an epee fencer who practices urban homesteading, reads Rowan Williams and goes to Nick Cave concerts (damn, that’s all pretentious!). But it also seems to think that I’m an African-American who grows with hydroponics, rocks out to the Queens of the Stone Age and loves Honey Baked Ham. I suspect much of the data Cambridge Analytica gathered was, similarly, off-target and useless. How to #DeleteFacebook...

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Scooters? Not a New Idea

Mr. Homegrown

July 1, 2019

Transportation

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Sun, Oct 8, 1916 – Page 58 · New York Herald (New York, New York) · Newspapers.com It turns out the urban scooter craze isn’t a new idea. From a story in an October 8, 1916 newspaper, “Skidding Through Fact and Fancy on an Autoped: Solo Devil Wagon Taken Up in a Serious Way Might Add New Terrors to City Life” is a description of motorized scooter not all that different than the ones we see today: You stand on the cute platform and get your feet n...

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