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Olympics

August 9th, 2008 · 4 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.I just read that the olympics opening ceremony was viewed by 4 billion people. Could that be true? Aren’t there only 6 billion in the whole world? 2 out of 3 in the entire world? Wow.
I must admit [...]

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Tags: author: levi · community · events · random musings · tv

The List…Top 10 Urban Projects

August 6th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Top 10 urban projects

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Tags: architecture · author: levi · community · design · housing · sacramento · urban design

Why?

July 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The question of why you do what you do seems to be bouncing around the nether regions of my head lately, I have to be honest that when things get challenging I ask the question more often than when life rolls out the red carpet.   
So I have decided that today, for as much [...]

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Tags: author: levi · children · community · families · goals · housing · jason · neighborhoods · the good project · transportation

Gardener For Hire?

July 24th, 2008 · 7 Comments

A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss
Trevor Paque at work in San Francisco in a garden his company planted in a client’s backyard.
Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But who has time to get to the farmer’s market, let alone plant a garden?
That is where Trevor Paque comes in. For a [...]

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Tags: author: micah · community · food · green living · nyc · pop culture

Movie Night

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Many of you attended the movie night we put on last year, I know that there were even quite a few that were turned away because we ran out of space. Well we are thinking its about time to do another one and hopefully we can get everyone in this time.
We are going to ask [...]

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Tags: author: levi · community · film · jason · midtown · video

Get Your Bike Fixed (and Your Neighbors’)

July 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

You may have heard that we are throwing a little bike party next weekend and I was wondering if I might ask a favor of  you…we want to get the word out about this thing so that everyone who has a bike that needs fixing can come by and get a free tune up.
So if [...]

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Tags: author: levi · bicycles · community · events · west sacramento

This Has To Be Bigger Than Before..

July 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Am I wrong that there never used to be this many people at the farmers market under the freeway?

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Tags: author: levi · community · downtown · food · sacramento

Urban Gardening On Vacant Land

July 9th, 2008 · 9 Comments

I am very excited about this solution for vacant urban land.  We have often talked about what to do with land that both we and others in our area own and have turned down the idea of a community garden because there are so many stories of gardens that once put in are “permanent”.  And [...]

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Tags: author: levi · community · conservation · creativity · design · food · green living · neighborhoods · resources · sacramento · urban design

Are You Ready For Some Good?

July 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I sort of start talking fast when I talk about things that I am passionate about and the Good project is definitely one of those things. Here is a video we made about the Good project. We are going to have an open house on Wednesday from 11 - 3 and again Saturday from 12-4.
The [...]

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Tags: architecture · author: levi · blankblank · community · dream big. live small. do good. · eco-urban · eco-urban 101 dinner · green living · housing · interview · neighborhoods · our blog · the good project · trees · urban design · video · west sacramento

West Sacramento: Kicking Things Up A Notch

July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last week we had a meeting over at the Good project with the staff from West Sacramento Planning and building departments. They wanted to come see the finished product after working with us for the last two and a half years to make this project happen.  We we supposed to meet at 3:30 but at [...]

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Tags: author: levi · bicycles · community · green products · neighborhoods · oil · the good project · west sacramento