Questions to ask about the book “A do-it-ourselves guide for Sustainable City Living” as posed by Makezine. The book is part of the Rhizome Collective.
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Composting with earthworms is environmentally friendly and cuts down on the trash and garbage we throw out. They are a great addition to the household.
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I checked the HMS Beagle Science Store blog at http://hms-beaglescienceblog.blogspot.com/ today and they have a good article about “Home Laboratories Under Attack”. Their blog makes a good point about the importance of home based labs, particularly with the home school groups. The blog makes more good points that we should contact our law makers [...]
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Since we don’t have electricity on our property, I’ve been doing a lot of research on the Internet while I’m in the city about ways to reduce or eliminate dependence on the electric company. Earlier in the week I visited a lot of sites but didn’t record all of the interesting web addresses. I’m not [...]
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I’ve been back in the city for several days and researching many items on alternate energy. It was hot and uncomfortable while I was there so I wondered how the Amish survive in this heat. Before leaving for the city I stopped at one of the Amish farms to get some vegetables to bring back. [...]
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The nice thing about having a motorhome is that it doesn’t matter where you are around the country it feels like you are always home. You always have your own bedroom, kitchen, bath, and living area with you. My wife and I have lived in this bus for a couple of years but it has [...]
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I made it down to our property. There is a tree down in our driveway but the nice thing about having a jeep is it can go around and over things a normal car can’t. The jeep was packed so full that I couldn’t get much anything else in here. I’m making my way through [...]
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I am now officially unemployed. For the last few years I’ve been under-employed getting some part-time projects and odd jobs. I developed and presented a series of robotics summer camp workshops for kids which ended last week. I don’t have any other work lined up yet.
A problem about having a specialty in software development is [...]
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