If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.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 [...]

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Its been a few months since I barred my soul here on the Blog. Its still very sad not having Jason around anymore, the opening day last week was especially hard. Everywhere I looked there were memories of Jason. His Dream Big, Live Small, Do Good tag line on the sign seemed to be begging [...]

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One of the things we always wanted to do with LJ Urban was to prove that things can move in the right direction.  We have had our share of skeptics watching from the sidelines quietly (and some not so quietly) disagreeing with our vision and its nice to finally have living proof that there is [...]

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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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If you get a chance grab a SN&R and look at page 19. They did a little plug about LJ Urban and our opening event for Good this Saturday.
I was out all day at the site helping tie up loose ends and preparing for this Saturday. The house is really coming together nicely. I [...]

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I had breakfast with my dad today and he and I were talking about Chicago and how its such an awesome city. He mentioned that it all started with a fire. That fire was by no means a good thing but it was in rebuilding from that fire that a vision for a truly great city was born. It was the passion that came from people who suffered a terrible loss that inspired them to build a truly great city. We don’t choose the fires in our lives but we get to choose how we are going to react to them. I choose to dig in and dream big.

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The Good
(First in a three part series)
This past week the drywall went up on our first home in “The Good Project” in West Sacramento. I was out there yesterday and it’s really starting to feel like something special. I always have a hard time getting the feel for a space without drywall on the [...]

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Karim, AVN Mason
Levi already wrote about how we passed our first 10,000 hit mark, at the Do Some Good Now page.   (We are getting ready to launch the awesome new version of Do Some Good Now that Chinua is working on, so be watching the site.)
I just wanted to write a little again, about this [...]

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The following is another excerpt from the story of our travels to Burkina Faso.  Read along as we brave the Metro in Paris, become red with African Dust in Burkina Faso, and climb rickety ladders to reach rooftops.  Our intent?  To learn more about Earth Roofs in the Sahel and to see for ourselves the [...]

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The following is another excerpt from the story of our travels to Burkina Faso. Read along as we brave the Metro in Paris, become red with African Dust in Burkina Faso, and climb rickety ladders to reach rooftops. Our intent? To learn more about Earth Roofs in the Sahel and to [...]

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