If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.I guess I was a day early on the Park(ing) day post.
Erick Fredericks from Neighborhoods.org sent me this email today..
Park(ing) Day Kickoff
Do you feel that too much of our urban land is dedicated to automobile uses? Do you think we need more park [...]

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Just thinking about Park(ing) Day makes me sad that Jason is not going to be here with us this time around. But that same emotion is driving me to go after it and make a really good park in Jason’s honor.
I realized when thinking about this that I am not even sure who all came [...]

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Remember parking day?
Well these guys took it one step further.
Thanks Dustin, for sending us this Video.
Susty.tv» Green Deets with Ben Harper from susty.tv on Vimeo.

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Lately, I’ve been thinking about goodness and smallness and the relationship between them. Probably a response to several points of stimuli: our ongoing explorations in unit sizes, the “Wow!” I experienced looking at the amount of beauty, life and creativity that got packed the space of a parking spot at our temporary park on J [...]

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This is an email that was sent to us by Nancy Mathison who was one of the coordinators for National Park(ing) Day.
It’s 5am and completely quite in downtown Sacramento except for the sound of sod being rolled out. While volunteers are biking in sod, carrying over trees and umbrellas, and making last minute print-outs for [...]

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Its 2:25 am and my 7 month old daughter decided that its a good time to practice her vowels… Thankfully she is not crying at all, but for some reason she has no interest in sleeping. So I’m standing here looking around the Internet for something interesting… I found this amazing article [...]

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Wow. Working with this eclectic group of eco-urbanists on National Park(ing) Day has been crazy fun.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it takes to bring “fresh air” to the city (both literally and figuratively) and doing this has been that “fresh air” for the dedicated group of volunteers working on this. We [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zvG-ay7k5c

Ever wish for a world with more parks and fewer parking lots?
This Friday, September 21st, on J Street between 13th and 14th in one small 22 x 7 foot metered parking spot, you’ll find just that.
Imagine it. Car. Car. Car. Park. Car. Car. Car. This is just way too much fun.
Better yet. Come out and [...]

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Since our last post, its been fun seeing the momentum already beginning to build for Sacramento’s first installation of REBAR’s National (Park)ing Day. We’ve had several e-mails from people wanting to get plugged in, and it sounds like a fun group of eco-urbanists are gathering around this event.
The first Planning Meeting is this next Tuesday [...]

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National (Park)ing Day: September 21st, 2007
In the last 24 hours, I got two e-mails — one from an photographer and one from a landscape designer, neither of whom know each other — pointing me to the fun, eco-urban efforts behind REBAR’s National (Park)ing Day.
You gotta check this out.
From the Site: National (Park)ing Day is…
a one-day, [...]

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