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Mortise and Tenon Magazine

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Design
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...ars ago I decided to declutter some of my eclectic interests (goodbye beer making) and focus on upping my carpentry and woodworking skills. Partly, this was out of necessity. Our house needed some work and those skilled with planes and hammers are busy building custom staircases for Barbara Streisand and don’t have the time for a 980 square foot bungalow in the HaFoSaFo district. I took a few classes, subscribed to some woodworking and home buildi...

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125 Green Burials with the Green Reaper Elizabeth Fournier

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Podcasts
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...wns and operates Cornerstone Funeral Services in Boring, Oregon (we’re not making that up). She serves on the Advisory Board for the Green Burial Council. You can find her online at the Green Reaper. During the podcast we discuss: What is a green burial? The legality of green burial in the United States What’s wrong with a modern funeral? National Home Funeral Alliance Cremation vs. green burial Water cremation (alkaline hydrolysis) Burial at sea...

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What to Do With Junk Mail and Shredded Paper

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Domesticus
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...s with junk mail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=i-_MQgYK6c0 Shredded Paper Animal bedding. Packing material. Make your own paper. Fire bricks with shredded paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHgBCvQ_-Qg I’ve also been pondering the possibility of making lumber with junk mail and/or shredded paper bound together with resin. I’m not the only person who’s had this idea but, unfortunately, it involves plastics which I don’t like to work...

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Saturday Tweets: Spiders, Boomerangs and a New HGTV

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Saturday Linkages
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...via @Curbed — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 2, 2018 I’m getting better at making and throwing #boomerangs. This thing was made out of light weight, cheap, underlayment plywood from home depot. Got the plans from this ridiculously large and entertaining database https://t.co/9gtj8155J2. Fun to browse just to see silly shapes. pic.twitter.com/XxFfqWwvpu — federico tobon (@wolfCatWorkshop) July 6, 2018 Meanwhile, in the beautiful world of medieval m...

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Bottom-up Urbanism

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Domesticus
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...tal property. Johnny describes himself as a “rodent who scurries about finding the opportunities other don’t recognize.” A lot of the things he talks about in the video are things we’ve done in our own very small Los Angeles house, such as adding sheds and making the garage space usable, all strategies for getting by on the expensive West Coast. The video even includes a bonus visit to a Murphy bed manufacturer. You can follow Johnny on his blog G...

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