If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.We had a few seats open up today for the Saturday Eco-Urban 101 dinner. If you are interested email me at Levi(at)LJUrban(dot)com and I will get you in.
We have been having a great time at the dinners getting to know like minded people. [...]

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I am a long time fan of Wikipedia, but I noticed something on there today that made me think of an idea.  There is no entry for LJ Urban…. But there should be… Right?   In the effort to not self promote I want to see if anyone out there wants to start a page and [...]

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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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How cool would it be if we were to one day figure out how to build a fully sustainable fully off the grid home?  I know that the houses birds build are actually more sustainable than these are but Inhabitat has a fun post up today about building bird houses out of garbage.
On the flip [...]

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If you stopped by the Green Living Center opening last Saturday you may haveseen Brian from Urban Earth Solutions out front molding some sculptures with cob - a mixture of earth and straw.  I got to talking to him and realized we need to work some earth building into our projects!  Not only is it [...]

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Sometimes I get so wrapped up in defending well designed density that I forget some of the basic reasons for it. It was refreshing to see this post from a conference in Israel - where land is much scarcer and fought over than here. I liked this quote - “Transit, culture, creativity ­ [...]

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We are not the only ones pushing to make Sacramento a better place. As a matter of fact we are just following in the footsteps of some very great people who have been pushing for these things for a long time.
Here are a few events that we thought were pretty cool…
SUSTAINABILITY SYMPOSIUM
“VISIONS OF A [...]

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I have been flooded with questions and responses from our offer to host Eco-Urban 101 Dinners so I thought it would be a good idea to put a post up here and explain what they are all about. The first one is already full and the second is already filling up fast so if [...]

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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 have been enjoying these old VW ads lately. I think they really hit on something with that car when they first built it. It was like they were decades ahead of their time with the concept. Build something that is both cheap reliable and iconic. They were true to the original design instead of [...]

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