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I spent last week at Greenbuild in chilly Chicago. Greenbuild is the USGBC’s green-building conference that is held annually. I didn’t make it to all the educational seminars that I had hoped because of the craziness. I actually sat on the floor [...]

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I am sitting in the lobby of my hotel in New York City waiting for my room key. My flight landed at 7:30 this morning and I spent several hours walking around the city taking it all in. It’s 2:30pm now, my feet hurt, and I am ready to rest a bit and get caught [...]

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A few weeks ago, I hinted in a post about some surprises to come…
Here are a few… we’ve been having a lot of fun these days…
Surprise! Leftist Talk Radio?

I’m guessing one the last places in the world you’d expect to find a developer would be sitting with Christine Craft at the sound board of the [...]

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James Howard Kunstler in his usual raw style exposes suburban sprawl for what it really is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ

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Daniel Pink is a keynote at the ULI Multifamily Trends Conference that Micah and Steve are at today.
Here’s something I pulled from an article he wrote for Wired, “The Rise of the Neo Greens”.
Hybrids as Symbols of Identity
Reporting on a UC Davis study on consumer motivations for buying a Hybrid, lead by Ken Kurani he [...]

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We’ve heard some great things about the phenomenal success of Earth Day two weekends ago. I’m curious, did anyone see other developers there? I ask because we’re going to be at the Whole Earth Festival coming up, and I’m wondering whether or not we’ll see other developers there.
Honestly, I hope there are a few others– [...]

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Vanessa’s too humble to mention this, but she got accepted to a prestigious invitation-only event hosted by TED. We’re all pretty stoked about this. Anyone who knows Vanessa knows that she has a huge heart that beats for Africa, so her invitation to this particular event is especially exciting.
TEDGlobal: Africa, the Next Chapter
Here’s [...]

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Vanessa and I went to Colorado last week to go to the Greenbuild Conference in Denver. Wow, what a transformation that city has seen. We were able to walk the showroom floor and see all of the very cool applications of sustainable products available to us for constructing our houses. Much of [...]

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A month ago, Levi and I went to the Urban Land Institute’s Annual Fall Meeting in Denver. Vanessa and Micah are getting their own dose of the Mile High City this week at US Green Building Council’s 2006 Green Build Conference.
I for one am really excited to hear about what they’re learning.
And now, thanks to [...]

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I’ve got some really encouraging and exciting news… last Thursday, we got our Planning Commission approval for our B Street West project!!
The hearing went shockingly fast, which was actually kind-of affirming in a strange way. You know you are doing something right when nobody has much to say at a public hearing — there’s [...]

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