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This article that Treehugger sent me to was quite a concept with huge implications for our culture. The basic idea is that peak oil will cause the abandonment of the suburbs and a rapid realignment of our society toward sustainable practices. Those [...]

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Sometimes I feel like such an oddball biking to work and not going on Costco runs like my neighbors. I wonder if my fellow Americans (and neighbors) will ever change their ways to meet the crisis of the day.

It was encouraging yesterday to read this article in Sierra Magazine about the effort during WWII. [...]

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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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I read this story in the Bee on the debate about Carbon Credits and thought I’d share my perspective in a nutshell.
My take is that Carbon Credits are a response to the vacuum in leadership from our politicians.
Really what should have happened by now is that the market costs of polluting energy should have risen [...]

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How do you go about re-envisioning a neighborhood? That’s a big question on our minds these days, due to the fact that we now control more land in the Washington Neighborhood of West Sacramento than any other landowner. For us, this level of control translates directly into the degree of influence we can have in [...]

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This is the back and forth nature of development: while some aspects of a project gain speed, others slow down. On one hand, this development dance could seem frustrating but it’s all a matter of perspective. Sometimes things slow down for good reasons…and often you don’t know until afterwards the benefit of that change [...]

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Design Review Hearing Coming Soon
Our Newton Booth project at 27th and V Streets is progressing through the entitlement process in the months of April and May, with a big Design Review Hearing being the next big landmark.
Learning as We Go
On so many levels, this has been a case study for eco-urban development. This has been [...]

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We are taking a serious look into adding a carshare program for our cluster of developments that are in the early planning stages in West Sacramento. These projects will have one parking space per unit, so the addition of a car-share program could be very helpful for some residents.
The idea behind the car sharing program [...]

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So, the fact that our first project has broken ground is pretty exciting in and of itself. At least for us. We’ve been waiting for this day to come for over a year and, more than what’s actually happening on-site, we’re excited about what it signifies: that this project has officially gone from [...]

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Our vision for the best community and city has serious competition from the sprawling suburbs. We all know it. I’ve heard it called the “growth machine” and the “status quo.” As a private business, we have substantial investment in our vision and need to be a voice in the public debate. There [...]

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