If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.I was very happy to open up the Wall Street Journal today and see the article about urban development in Sacramento that Anna Campoy worked on for so long finally made it to print. And it made it square in the middle of [...]

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Last week we had a meeting over at the Good project with the staff from West Sacramento Planning and building departments. They wanted to come see the finished product after working with us for the last two and a half years to make this project happen.  We we supposed to meet at 3:30 but at [...]

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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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Oil consumption per capita (darker colors represent more consumption).
How does it make you feel?  Kind of guilty huh? Me too.

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The world changed this year. The place you call home is not going to be the same.
Do you feel it yet?  Are you changing anything in your life yet?
I know I am. And I know what I am doing is very small compared to what my kids are going to have to do.
Think about this. [...]

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Watch this thing tick away for a while….

Amount American’s Have Spent on Oil in
2007
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Ecuador is the home of UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, the Yasuní National Park. The park is 9,820 square kilometers primarily covered in Amazonian rainforest. Underneath this rainforest lies the Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini oilfields, which if tapped by Ecuador, could produce around $700m a year.
Here’s where President Rafael Correa poses the question to the international community at [...]

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Often the discussion about cites revolves around transportation. You can’t talk for long about urban planning without discussing the flow of people. The truth is if a city can’t effectively move its people from here to there it does not work.
There are two distinct camps in the discussion about the future of transportation. And [...]

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