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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Have you seen this guy and the project he is working on this month? The whole thing makes you thing more about our dependence on plastic and the negative effects its having on the environment.
Very cool.
Levi

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In 1961 Jane Jacobs wrote a book called The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I know many of you have read her work and already know just how revolutionary her ideas were. But I want to point out something that comes to mind when reading her work that I believe we may have [...]

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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 red carpet.   
So I have decided that today, for as much [...]

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I dream of a time when society abandons the myth that bigger is better, and begins to embrace the genius of small.
I dream of better places for people to live, places that offer true quality of life not just the illusion of material things making life better.
I dream of a time [...]

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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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As a rule, we try not to talk about ourselves much here on the blog. We just don’t think we are all that interesting and know that there are much better things to talk about.
I am feeling sentimental today, so I am going to break the rules a bit.
I read a book a few [...]

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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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I’ve been sitting on this article from Good Magazine for awhile and just found it at the bottom of a stack of papers on my desk. Derrik Ashong articulates something that I’ve been musing on for a while now and I imagine many of you have as well: a knowing sense of change in [...]

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