circa 2024 of course.
due to the Urban Growth Boundary in Portland, there are acreages within pleasant 20 minute commute on the Tri-Met Max Line (bike racks included of course). Berry picking, goats, chickens, mud, slugs, winter squash. Oh all the fun things you can do. With a hobbit house.
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if only we could remember to bring our pile of reusable shopping bags into the store WITH us.
i feel so horrible accepting the plastic bags, but the kitty poop is unending! and the little muffin won’t use the eco-friendly pine stuff. i might try to acclimate her again when we get a house and our […]
its hard to believe there are organizations out there, like the Heritage Foundation who are lobbying and fundraising to stop the “hoax” of the “overblown environmental crisis”
Maybe they need a pretty little video to explain it in simpler terms. Of course, their propaganda uses large enough words, so you would think they could get it.
“The […]
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The things you can do with rolls of tape, Styrofoam cups, paper plates, napkins…
Lovely work. Kind of reminds me of tripe though!
I have love the beef noodle bowls that are tucked away in perfectly hidden little vietnamese joints (i.e. not the glossy Pho Van in the middle of hipster town) but I can’t […]
integration of technology and enviroment, i love how these images capture our transforming landscape.
photo from here, via wrongdistance.com
dustin shrum
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51308, originally uploaded by kate*.
love this blog! her skewed drawing perspective is so youthful and free-spirited. she highlights the “obsessive consumption” that we as Americans take for granted every day.
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only when i can’t bike of course
hawthorne district, w00t!
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this is really sobering. quite scary.
the story of stuff.com
call me a radical hippie liberalist, but truth is inescapable.
makes me want to go make my own treehouse off the grid.
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well this makes me much more inclined towards those cute VWs all my friends zip around in these days.
My mom (the Master Naturalist) attended a lecture educating interested parties in rainwater collection on a household scale. its extremely simple. cut a hole in a garbage can lid, attach a screen to filter debris. If you […]
I bike to work daily in the lovely city of Portland, OR where I