by Deftspace | Aug 14, 2026 | City Wild, Climate Change, Design, Resilience, Sustainable Home, Uncategorized
🍅August brings with it summer abundance, and the old holidays of Lughnasa and Lammas celebrating the first fruits of the harvest season. In my house, that’s tomatoes, chiles, eggplant, basil, cukes, and a few zucchini, plus some new everbearing strawberries...
by Deftspace | Apr 16, 2026 | City Wild, Climate Change, Design, Energy, Health, How to (Re)Build Your City, Infrastructure, Planning, Resilience, Sustainable Home, Uncategorized
Or $8/gal or $15/gal or whatever’s three times what you’re used to paying. What can we do in places built around driving everywhere with fuel that’s suddenly unaffordable? Plenty: Insulate buildings – roofs, walls, windows, doors, floors. Behold the power of...
by Deftspace | Feb 18, 2026 | 30% Wild podcast, Behavior, Climate Change, Design, Design X Deficit, Health, ReForest, Resilience, Sustainable Home, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Everybody’s worried What’s on your mind today? Everybody’s got a worry or six – what’s your top one today? Or maybe your top seven? Who couldn’t use a refuge, a place to find a respite from the incessant mayhem of the world? We’ve all got that in common, that...
by Deftspace | Feb 17, 2026 | 30% Wild podcast, Behavior, City Wild, ReForest, Uncategorized, Wildlife
This page may include affiliate links. Buying through them adds *no* additional cost to your purchase, supports “30% Wild,” and supports independent bookstores via Bookshop.org. What a deal! Thanks so much for your support! Guilt How about this: we’re...
by Deftspace | Feb 13, 2026 | 30% Wild podcast, Behavior, City Wild, Invasives, ReForest, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Hoaxes You knew this was coming: The Hoax. There’s people who genuinely think they saw an Impossible Scary Animal and are simply mistaken, which could happen to anyone. Anyone can make a mistake. But what about people who *deliberately* mislead others? Not just...
by Deftspace | Feb 13, 2026 | 30% Wild podcast, Behavior, City Wild, Health, ReForest, Uncategorized, Wildlife
Awe Maybe we see Impossible Scary Animals because we need nature to be bigger, badder, and wilder than it is, at least the nature around us. Maybe we crave awe. The year 2024 gifted the US with both a total solar eclipse and multiple dazzling displays of the aurora...
