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Whining and crying goes to bed

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Instead of fat shaming, how can we encourage healthy eating habits?

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convince me it's ok for a six year old to 'hunt' and kill a deer

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A Conversation About Vaccination

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I woke up just to mentally rant about housing developments. Maybe after I write this, I can sleep

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Letting the village raise our children: when to let it go, when to make a fuss?

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The reality of homesteading has dissolved my "prepper"/homesteading fantasies

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sorting through the mythology of hemp

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The margarine effect

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The margarine effect

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Would you still do it if you knew it was futile?

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Making Herbicides Illegal: What would likely happen if we tried?

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what does the term 'passive-aggressive' mean to you?

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How likely is a new dust bowl

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How to avoid annoying your spouse

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It's official, the new neighbor intends to roundup all 40 of his acres

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Local Paper's wishy washy pipeline editorial and my response.

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Where are all the dudes?

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High Density, Urban farming, Suburbia, and the end of oil; solutions

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99 reasons why 2016 was a good year

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reduce your petroleum footprint to zero and still use petroleum

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election analysis 2016

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Daylight Savings Time is Stupid !

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On thinking about government spending in a permaculture fashion

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Localisation, Transition Towns… good ideas but fundamentally flawed?

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Global warming

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Spraying insecticide on pecan trees and killing beneficial insects

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militant veganism

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Does giving people in Third World countries goats and chickens actually help them?

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The Threat of Entryism to the Permaculture Movement

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If population growth was caused by fossil fuel consumption, why are things as they are?

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Cultured Meat

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The Great GMO Discussion

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Half Earth vs Tending the Wild

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ulcer factory

Recently published "study" on permaculture

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for all you Berniacs out there

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"Meat eaters should be treated like smokers"

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as California slowly sinks into the west

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Is Government a Necessary Evil?

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Do Humans have an ecological niche?

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It's the end of the world as we know it . . . and I feel fine.

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toxic gick

"Intellectual Property" Keeps Right On Killing

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Fun and Games: 5 Dimensional Political Compass

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Seed Libraries: Treat Law as Damage, Route Around It

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The Carbon Farming Solution - Chapter 1: Climate Realities

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another group altering the land and interfering with evolution

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feminism and sexism

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should we let Hawaiian birds to their fate....

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Looking Down From Our Lofty Ideals

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Religion and Permaculture-Jewish Law

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Muslim Spain and Permaculture

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