What Is Affordable Housing or Low-Cost Housing? Finding New Terms: “The Under $20,000 House”
This weekend I came back from Arizona for a few days and was so amazed at all Peter had gotten done on the fence, gates, and arbors for our house. That led us to talking about what to call [...]
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I love when I walk in our yard. I follow a specific route through the arbor covered with sweet potato vines, past the pepper plants and cilantro, and then along the walkway that is flanked by a profusion of tomato plants. I smell the plants and marvel at their growth in this triple digit desert [...]
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I am currently serving as, what you might call, our yard “engineer”/ “architectural mechanic”/ “laborer”. In other words I am working on building arbors, fences, gates, and even walls, throughout our yard. I am in that mode where I have my mind on tools so my thoughts are focused on how to manoeuver [...]
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Brenda Barnes, President, Home Grown Food Network, Inc.
July 6, 2008
Towards a brief history of demonstrating!
I’m writing this blog because I was googling for how to replace an aluminum mobilehome window with a plexiglass door. Someone in Brooklyn had a sliding-glass door and I clicked the box next to the article on “conspicuous consumption.” [...]
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I want to update my earlier post on YAWNS. I mentioned there that it might be ok for a successful filmmaker and his family (YAWN) living near Berkeley, California to dry their clothes on a line, grow their own vegetables and buy what they need at garage sales and second-hand stores, but if you [...]
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It is always interesting when those who live in the hallowed halls of academia tiptoe out into the real world and come up with a new label for behaviors they observe in human beings, especially human beings in the market place.
I remember when, in the late eighties after the market crash of ‘87, [...]
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