If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.It’s almost midnight as I lay here in bed with my mind spinning. The mattress sits on the floor as the bedframe is leaning against the wall in the hall awaiting the move tomorrow. So many things to do to get my family [...]

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You may have gotten the email but I wanted to post this here as well, just to make sure everyone has a chance to go make some dirt.
A while back we posted about the Naturemill Kitchen compost units that we are putting in each of our homes. I brought one home and tried it out [...]

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I just read the first chapter of Thomas Friedman’s new book Hot Flat and Crowded and it’s incredible. I knew this guy could write from his other works, but this time it’s off the charts. He is hitting straight to the most important issue we will face in our generation. America needs to get off [...]

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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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One of my favorite things to do is get all muddy and sandy with my kids at the beach, so when I heard that we might be able to get
dirty without driving for two hours I was naturally intrigued.
On Saturday, August 23 Brian from Urban Earth Solutions is going
to be teaching a class at the [...]

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Another trip to the farmers market under the freeway this weekend got me thinking about how cool it is to live in a place that has so much fertile farm land near by. Makes me think living in a place like this where water and local food are so available should not be a matter [...]

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As promised we are trying to hold more open houses at the Good project. I know that several of you asked that we do one this weekend so we are going to be there tomorrow (Saturday) from 1-6. We will be showing off the nearly completed homes in the first phase.
Also I wanted to share [...]

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A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss
Trevor Paque at work in San Francisco in a garden his company planted in a client’s backyard.
Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But who has time to get to the farmer’s market, let alone plant a garden?
That is where Trevor Paque comes in. For a [...]

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Alex Steffen from worldchanging.com wrote this incredible post in January about what is next. Very worth your time. I missed it when it first came out and just found it today on their blog. Its incredible.
Levi

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM

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