Saturday Tweets: Rainy Day Tweets

December 8, 2018

Great resource for LA County urban farmers! https://t.co/gFgitxww6i — Rachel Surls (@RachelSurls) December 8, 2018 L.A. Adds Lanes For Cyclists To Recover From Getting Hit By Cars https://t.co/wmEvQHwCJM via @theonion — Colin Bogart (@ColinBogart) December 8, 2018 Metaphor alert. https://t.co/NG3LzEazzM — Peter Flax (@Pflax1) December 5, 2018 If You Can't Bike On It, It Doesn't Belong In the City https://t.co/7QXjPmbIRN via @RebelMetropol...

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Lead in Backyard Eggs: Don’t Freak Out But Don’t Ignore the Issue

Mr. Homegrown

March 11, 2019

Animals, Bees, Lead

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...d ate more than three eggs a day. I’d suggest that if you live in an older urban location, next to a gas station or other industrial site or a recently burned area you may want to get your eggs tested. Odds are that your backyard eggs are safe to eat but, as the study showed, some of the lead results were well over safe levels. Here’s what UC Cooperative Extension suggests if you have a lead issue, Once potentially contaminated areas are identifie...

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Saturday Tweets: Mobile Markets, Big Oil and Public Transit Seat Covers

Mr. Homegrown

March 23, 2019

Saturday Linkages

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...times better than those ridiculous driverless food delivery pods): Metro Buses Converted Into Mobile Food Markets For Low Income Neighborhoods – https://t.co/ZRy2EHbp3q pic.twitter.com/gC8vQ4IB5D — Allison Arieff (@aarieff) March 22, 2019 I just testified as an expert witness to EU Parliament about ExxonMobil’s decades of climate denial + delay. Between being the first major hearing of its kind, a leaked Exxon memo, & the rising prospect of Exxon...

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Saturday Tweets: Lost in Translation

Mr. Homegrown

April 6, 2019

Saturday Linkages

...ZqcIgDW — Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) April 6, 2019 Two ways to design the urban form of a corner lot – where would you rather spend your time? pic.twitter.com/ZG3sHozeFz — CreateStreetsAmerica (@CStreetsAmerica) April 5, 2019 Meanwhile in Silicon Valley… pic.twitter.com/XrEMg8j7cG — Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) April 6, 2019 “If the feds gave state DOTs a free & easy hand to build highways for the past 60 years, they can finally do the same...

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131 Learning to Smell the Roses with Kendra Gaeta

Mr. Homegrown

June 5, 2019

Podcasts

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...tion Beyond perfume–who works with scent The Smelly Viles Ghost Hunters of Urban Los Angeles Perfumers Apprentice + Flavors Apprentice (An amazing source for small quantities of scents and flavors) The smell of the International Space Station If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing...

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