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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 [...]

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Jessie (My awesome wife) has been really digging this blog lately. We now have homemade hand soap, deodorant and laundry soap is on the way, all because EnviroMom is helping us think about our waste and consumption in a new way with her writing. Makes me think about what else we can produce at home…  [...]

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I run it. I actually don’t know anyone in Sacramento who does not use one. Although I am sure there are people who don’t.
And after seeing this fact…
18% of all the electricity consumed in America is used to power air conditioners.
I think we need to figure out a better way.

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If you go out to Point Reyes on the coast, you just might spot the herds of Elk that apparently migrated down from up North and then got trapped there by rapid development (at least that’s the story I always heard). I’ve always wondered if Elk Grove was named for elk that used to [...]

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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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This came out a few weeks ago but its still buzzing around in my head.
What would it take to organize enough Sacramentan’s to shut off as much power as possible on a particular night. I think it could happen if we pick a date and time and convince enough building owners and city officials [...]

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