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Saturday Tweets: Wild Azaleas, DIY Neutra Chairs and Hot Dog Water

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Saturday Linkages
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...ootsimple) June 26, 2018 Would you buy a $28 bottle of “unfiltered Hot Dog Water”? Some people in Canada did https://t.co/8V3U9Obl3b — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 23, 2018 It was later than I thought when I first believed you. Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools. https://t.co/VaWRtik3Vw — Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman) June 26, 2018 Next time, let’s do this demonstration in two cars. Stop the cars in the middle of the street and just...

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What Preparedness Lessons Did You Learn From Hurricane Sandy?

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Preparedness
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..., so in the event there was no water, I could have easily gotten untreated water from a stream (you could also get water from a fire hydrant. A few days before the storm I saw someone filing up buckets of water from a hydrant for unknown reasons), I had an alternative means of transportation so if need be, I cold have traveled a large distance, and I was good on food. In the future, I hope to be better prepared. I got off easy and was able to lear...

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Permaculture Design Course at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano

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...terview, site analysis, group brainstorm, mapping with graphics APRIL 12 / WATER – Water in context, water systems, homescale vs. large scale, appropriate scale technologies. Presentation on rainwater and greywater basics, fundamental earthworks basics, observation and mapping water excersize, greywater workshop, rain barrel building demo APRIL 13 / WATER OFF-SITE – including larger scale home systems design, hands-on rain barrel/greywater systems...

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Book Review: The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic and Peak Oil

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Reviews
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Phoebe says that despite her midnight coat and lambent eyes, she has nothing whatsoever to do with magic. Or peak oil. And for the record, she also scorns Halloween. What do magic and peak oil have to do with one another? Quite a lot, actually, if you believe the author, John Michael Greer. And if you read The Blood of the Earth: An Essay on Magic and Peak Oil you’ll probably come to agree with him, because in this book, as in all of his writing,...

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