If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.Check out this incredible project that clearly takes sustainability to a whole new level.
Thanks to Paul Dirksen for sending it to us.

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In 1961 Jane Jacobs wrote a book called The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I know many of you have read her work and already know just how revolutionary her ideas were. But I want to point out something that comes to mind when reading her work that I believe we may have [...]

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Top 10 urban projects

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I have heard of adaptive re-use but this is a whole different thing going on here..

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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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Sorry its not letting me drag pictures into my post here so you just have to go over and see it for your self… Its really really freakin awesome.  Update:  I figured it out!

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I have been waiting until the ball got rolling to do this but now it is rolling, boy it is rolling.
We are looking for a positive, intelligent, knowledgeable, organized, balanced, energetic person to work for LJ Urban.  We need someone who knows the nuts and bolts of construction, likes being in the field, doesn’t abhor [...]

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An unfortunately low number of urban projects get the fact that they are in an urban location, its like they think they are building the same crap just a little closer to other crap… I am still unclear on exactly why this us but think it has something to do with a disorder called [...]

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Several people who did not make it out to the event asked that I post pictures on here of the house. I am not much of a Photographer so you have to put up with me here, I must add that the house proved an easy subject to shoot. Without any further ado… [...]

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