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How A Communist Cleans The Air

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

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Look how much easier it is to mandate air quality controls when you are China.
Micah

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Tags: author: micah · cities · transportation

I Love How Simple These Are!

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Typically a rubber tube filled with water will bulge locally when squeezed; and this bulge will propagate along the tube at a speed  c given by

Here E is the tensile modulus of the rubber, d the diameter of the tube, h its wall thickness and rho is the density of water. [...]

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Tags: author: micah · design · energy sources

My Other Car Is A Bright Green City

July 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Tags: author: levi · cities · climate change · green living · housing · oil · suburban sprawl · transportation

Time For Some Serious Changes

July 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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Tags: author: levi · energy sources · green living · transportation · urban design · video

Dancing Alone

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I miss something, something that used to be here in the room but has been slowly creeping out the cracks in the walls as time wears on. I don’t think I knew it was even here before but now I am certain that it was and I can’t seem to decide if it was all [...]

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Tags: author: levi · cities · housing · random musings

It’s Today, It’s Today!!

July 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I can hardly believe we made it to today. The day that seemed like it would never come.
Today at the Good project we are finally opening our doors to start selling houses! We have all the paperwork in order and can finally sell what we have been talking about for so long!
Also just to make [...]

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Tags: author: levi · bicycles · housing · the good project · west sacramento

An Open Letter To My Lawn

July 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments

My dearest Lawn,
Let me start by saying that this letter is going to be a bit hard for me to write. You are just going have to bear with me as I pour my heart out for you here.
You and I have had a lot of memories together, some good, like when I first moved [...]

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Tags: author: levi · neighborhoods · oil · random musings

Just Stop

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

If you are someone who works somewhere that you don’t believe in there are less and less excuses left for you to be where you are.  I have always been someone who believes that you vote with your dollar but I also believe that you vote with your efforts and if you are somewhere that [...]

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Tags: advertising · author: levi · children

Movie Night

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Many of you attended the movie night we put on last year, I know that there were even quite a few that were turned away because we ran out of space. Well we are thinking its about time to do another one and hopefully we can get everyone in this time.
We are going to ask [...]

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Tags: author: levi · community · film · jason · midtown · video

Get Your Bike Fixed (and Your Neighbors’)

July 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

You may have heard that we are throwing a little bike party next weekend and I was wondering if I might ask a favor of  you…we want to get the word out about this thing so that everyone who has a bike that needs fixing can come by and get a free tune up.
So if [...]

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Tags: author: levi · bicycles · community · events · west sacramento