If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.Jaclyn from ECOS sent over a bit of fun the upcoming Fall Festival that ECOS is putting on here in Washington. I thought I would share it with you.
What do wine corks, beer caps, and a hand-held drill have in common? No, [...]

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We like the folks over at ECOS. They do good things for the earth and for Sacramento.
So when they have a party we get excited and want to help out. This year they are having their fall festival over in our part of town. I am going to post more later about the event and [...]

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Cool approach to providing more room on sidewalks and less on roads. I really think Sacramento could install a couple of these in key locations and probably really enhance the foot traffic in front of some retail.  In fact our parking day location on 20th and J was a perfect spot for one of these.
Micah

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I spent the afternoon sipping Jamba juice with my kids sitting on some grass in a parking space…. Yeah you read right sitting in a parking space. Today was Park(ing) day and the Sacramento team did a great job this year putting together an awesome park.
This is the kind of stuff I am talking about [...]

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Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is Park(ing) day. The whole thing makes me miss Jason a lot, he did an incredible job last year putting it together and making sure it was an authentic gesture towards a better world and not just another gimmicky sales pitch. I hope we are able to do it [...]

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I am a little confused, isn’t the goal to keep private businesses private? And keep government out of private enterprise? I am not entirely sure that the move today by the Fed to “purchase” 80% of AIG insurance is all that well thought out. I mean I know that we are having some issues and [...]

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Thanks Dustin for sending this great article about the safety in numbers for bicyclists.
Also…  that reminds me. Every year West Sacramento does this really neat event on the waterfront called the Neighbors fair.  It starts with a good old hometown parade and then moves over to the Riverwalk park across from old Sac and there [...]

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I keep thinking…what good is all this talk about community without a good movie night now and again?!? So we are getting together with the good folks over at USGBC and hosting a movie night here are the Green Living Center (20th and H in Midtown Sacramento).

After the film, the film’s producer, Maria Terezinha Vaz [...]

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I was not sure if I wanted to get on the blog here and start talking about this project until I was further along but I am beginning to think that the benefits of including everyone in the process outweigh the risk of humiliation if this thing were never to get published.
Its a tough thing [...]

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Not that we have an award for something like this but this one from a few days ago would win it for sure.
William Burg on Presenting: LJ Urban’s Open Mic 8-28-08
You want to know how I sum up the difference between neighborhood activists in Citrus Heights and neighborhood activists in downtown Sacramento? The Citrus Heights [...]

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