If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.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 [...]

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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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I am very excited about this solution for vacant urban land.  We have often talked about what to do with land that both we and others in our area own and have turned down the idea of a community garden because there are so many stories of gardens that once put in are “permanent”.  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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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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I was excited to read in Inside the City that Sacramento is taking it’s first step toward bike stations that I see popping up worldwide - it’s called Bikes and Bites! People can rent bikes by the Sheraton for the next few months and cruise around midtown to find food and beverages.  Sounds like 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 just added what I think is the coolest feature as a standard on our Good project.  Every home will now come equipped with an in kitchen compost machine called the Naturemill.  They are completely smell free and produce perfect dirt for your garden and can handle up to 120 pounds of kitchen waste per [...]

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