If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.I am glad that is over….It’s just not easy watching an election for 2 straight years. Remind me again why it takes that long to elect a President?

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Watching the news in October was like watching a cheap horror movie, everyone had a different take on just how bad things could get but none was very well thought out and they all seemed to have the same two themes - soup lines and shanty towns.
It’s interesting though when you watch real people (meaning [...]

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I am a little confused, isn’t the goal to keep private businesses private? And keep government out of private enterprise? I am not entirely sure that the move today by the Fed to “purchase” 80% of AIG insurance is all that well thought out. I mean I know that we are having some issues and [...]

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Go check out this article about a San Francisco development project that is now selling and then come back here and tell us if you want one of these buildings built here in Sacramento. You never know you might just get your wish one of these days.
I know its limiting and “not for everyone” but [...]

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The following is the first of LJ Urban’s Open Mic series. Where we invite you to write about the ins and outs of urban life. Email your entries to Levi(at)LJUrban(dot)com
The first post is from Ian Merker, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP. Ian currently works with MFDB Architects and is passionate about urban life here in Sacramento.
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We try and make a point of not talking about it when we get in the paper but today’s write up was not about us it was about the people who signed up to come help build with earth at the Good project yesterday. And I want everyone who came out to know that we [...]

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Just a little tidbit on what we want to try to do sometime.
PG&E to buy power from solar farms on Calif. coast
August 14, 2008 
 
SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Thursday it has signed contracts to buy electricity from two huge solar power plants to be built near the Central California coast.The utility [...]

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I got an email from Michelle a few days ago asking some advice on education, and although I am sure I was not much help to her on that front, I want to mention her here because it’s people like her with passion like she has that will define the future. Passion for something that [...]

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We have a very cool countertop in our Good project called Paperstone. I was wary at first just for the simple fact that it is made from paper. Well I do think my concern is unfounded. We have had 5 or 6 pretty serious dinner parties in the kitchen now and the counters look great, [...]

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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 the front page! I am a little sad I must admit that [...]

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