If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.The question of why you do what you do seems to be bouncing around the nether regions of my head lately, I have to be honest that when things get challenging I ask the question more often than when life rolls out the [...]

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Jessie (My awesome wife) has been really digging this blog lately. We now have homemade hand soap, deodorant and laundry soap is on the way, all because EnviroMom is helping us think about our waste and consumption in a new way with her writing. Makes me think about what else we can produce at home…  [...]

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Watch It.
Micah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrCalO5BDs

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Because we all need a little reminder that the world needs changing, and that there is no one more qualified to make a difference in the world from your seat than you.  Others may have a different way of doing things that will make great waves but you and only you can accomplish the great [...]

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Today my family and got up early and unloaded a good portion of the junk in our garage out on to the front lawn. Jessie walked down to Peet’s, got some wonderful coffee and we sat in our camping chairs and waited for people to come pick through the stuff we have but no longer [...]

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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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Many of you know that Jessie and I adopted our little baby girl Ruth last year. She is a wonderful little joy in our lives and we are big fans of adoption.
Its heart wrenching to hear the statistics of how many adoptable children there are in the system. And the sad truth is that there [...]

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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 [...]

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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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I have had an overwhelming amount of email from people wanting to help out Jason’s family.
He left behind two beautiful little girls and a wife who are now trying to figure out how to go on without him. Jason did not have a life insurance policy, so it’s going to be a [...]

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