Category: Urban Life

878: Matthew Geldin on Building Neighborhood Farms. Let’s change how far our food travels. In This Podcast: Host Greg Peterson interviews Matthew Geldin, head farmer at Farmscape in Southern California, about creating sustainable neighborhood food systems. Farmscape is the largest urban farming company in California, specializing in food-focused landscaping for various scales including backyard gardens,…

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Shoot the streets, take a craft beer tasting tour, or enjoy a night of saucy stanzas at a poetry bordello… The Editor assembles an eclectic list of top things to do in Barcelona! Now updated with five unmissable attractions too. They don’t call her The Great Enchantress for nothing… almost everyone that comes to the Catalan capital…

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Estimated reading time: 9 minutes In a world without rule of law, things change dramatically. Home defense changes. Right now, there are police, and there are repercussions to using lethality in your home. What happens when all that goes away? The very idea of home defense changes.  Home defense should start FAR away from your…

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I’m like a lot of folks. I heard Roman Mars’ TED Talk on flag design. It so happens that the flag he focussed his criticism on, San Francisco, is the city I live in and call home. Little did I know back then in 2015, that I would become passionate and at times obsessive in…

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Via Unsplash. In Japanese culture, cherry blossoms symbolize the transient nature of life, a reflection of the Buddhist concept known as “mono no aware,” which recognizes that there is both beauty and mortality in life. I was born to American parents in Japan during cherry blossom season. Like the celebrated flower whose bloom is spectacular…

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What gardening teaches us about the deeper meaning of Holy Week Holy Week has always felt different — the streets are quiet, the air is still, and time seems to slow down. Whether you observe it with processions, family traditions, or quiet prayer, Holy Week invites us to pause, reflect, and renew. As a gardener,…

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img { border: 10px solid #FFFFFF; } As many of you will know, one of the things that makes me really excited these days is the Access to Opportunities Project (AOP), which I started with Kaue Braga and Bernardo Serra in 2019. The AOP project has had a really productive phase between 2020 and 2022…

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Tariffs have taken over business conversations the last few weeks. It’s obvious many do not actually understand how they work. As a co-owner of a company that imports and exports many items, I thought it would be helpful to many if I explained them clearly and simply so farmers, greenhouse operators and growers of all…

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In the previous post, I explained how I ended up coming to the capital city of Togo and spend two months here to collaborate with Sénamé Koffi and WoeLab. This small West African country taught me so much and Lomé was such a welcoming gateway to my first journey in Africa. You can watch what…

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This Heatless Curls Tutorial using Flexi Rods Hair Curlers is one of the easiest and quickest ways to style your hair without using damaging heat tools. It only takes about one hour to get bouncy and voluminous curls. I try my best to not use too much heat on my hair. Heat tools are great…

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