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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We have not talked much on here about our new neighbors and I am not sure why that is, I guess I just forgot to mention it lately.  But we now have just about the coolest neighbors you could ask for.  Green Sacramento a sustainable building material retail store and GreenBuilt a sustainable home remodeler [...]

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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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I found this Boston company’s project very inspirational today. Steve forwarded it to me as an example of a developer who was able to take their project and add over 100 Smart cars as a car-share program for the residents. Very cool!
They seem to get eco-urbanism on many levels: they are reusing both old buildings [...]

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As people, we need a way to quantify things. We need all the things in our life to fit in our basic little boxes and we are constantly simplifying complex things so that we can measure them dice them up and put them where we can understand them.
We take mortgages and narrow them down to [...]

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Yesterday, we had a session talking about the various “must-have” components to the Washington area in West Sacramento where a number of our projects are forthcoming.
A lot of the conversation stemmed around the notion of gathering spaces. If we’re creating eco-urban community, how and where people will congregate and interact is of utmost consideration.
Today, [...]

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Talked with Tim Jordan at Old Soul a few days ago and he had joyous news. They had just that day received their retail permit. Wow. That was fast! Turned out to be a fairly easy thing to work through; they’ve got a few requirements to follow through with but the permit is in hand [...]

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About a year ago, we were in the throes of making arrangements to move to our location on J Street. Soon after, we started the process of outfitting the space with custom, eco-friendly cabinets, dividers, writing surfaces, etc.
A few weeks ago, we finally got some bookcases, which means we’re more or less settled… sort [...]

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Urban Loss
I just read in the Business Journal that a design college and culinary school is being planned for North Natomas and will occupy 1/2 of a 2-story 105,000 sq. ft. Buzz Oates building.
All I can say is “Arghh!”
While it will be nice to have something like this in the Sacramento region, I think the [...]

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So, Vanessa was on Treehugger.com and saw a video that described the identical process (and conclusions) we went through to find/design our eco-friendly office cabinets. At one point, when they started talking about decisions regarding the interior, we thought, “They aren’t going to say, “wheat board” are they?”
And yes, they did.
The green world is [...]

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