If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.The coolest program a city could sponsor is not quite here in Sacramento yet, but Washington D.C. is a heck of a lot closer than Paris.
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I have been enjoying these old VW ads lately. I think they really hit on something with that car when they first built it. It was like they were decades ahead of their time with the concept. Build something that is both cheap reliable and iconic. They were true to the original design instead of [...]

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Nearly every major corporation in America has announced a “green” strategy or product line and very few of them are authentic efforts but instead green washing of the same old stuff by the marketing department.
Many of you saw this article today about Starbucks in the Bee. The sad thing is that its not that surprising, [...]

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I realized that my shirts have a sort of a theme going.

Not sure when this started but its become sort of an addiction. I just have to check every store for one and of coarse always stop by the threadless website to see if they have come up with something new.
This last one is sort [...]

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…and for the curious at heart.

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Laundry must be in the air these days (no pun intended): this being our second post in a week on the topic.
I remember as a kid, I used to imagine all kinds of trees that grew all kinds of cool stuff. Like say, Tonka Trucks (remember those?…the heavy-duty steel ones…my mom found some of [...]

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I just got back from the co-op for a water run. My family has been doing the water dispenser system for about 8 years (which matches the age of my first daughter, whose birth coincided with our entry into eco-consciousness). So, after having tried a number of systems at different stores in different [...]

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Here is a more eco-friendly (and ear friendly) choice for the crazy loud motorcycles that frequent midtown at all hours of the night.
Although going that fast and being silent sounds like a bad idea to me.

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Our trees from B Street West have all been milled and stacked to dry for the next year! Now we get to find all kinds of cool uses for the wood that can be built into our project. The boards are about 1-inch thick and vary in widths and lengths according to the [...]

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Ok, so maybe that title is a bit over the top, but it expresses how I felt awhile ago when I noticed a little eco-urban love-fest happening on our very own website.
Floyd was actually the one who pointed it out to me. Joy at Café Refugio left a comment on our Midtown beekeepers page announcing [...]

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