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Its a place for us to talk about fun things coming up that you wont want to miss. Some of them are going to be open house days and [...]

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First off I want to say that this community is really cool. I posted on here a picture of my moving truck and within 20 minutes got a call asking if we needed any help moving. And if you have moved recently enough to remember how lame it is you know that whenever anyone calls [...]

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So much to write about but so little brain power to write with.
We are moved in finally and we succeeded in making a great big mess out of a brand new house already. The living room is full of boxes and misplaced furniture and all we can do is sleep.
Tomorrow is another day and hopefully [...]

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It’s almost midnight as I lay here in bed with my mind spinning. The mattress sits on the floor as the bedframe is leaning against the wall in the hall awaiting the move tomorrow. So many things to do to get my family and all our 9 years worth of stuff across town into our [...]

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You may have gotten the email but I wanted to post this here as well, just to make sure everyone has a chance to go make some dirt.
A while back we posted about the Naturemill Kitchen compost units that we are putting in each of our homes. I brought one home and tried it out [...]

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We try not to write to much about us and our project here. We just don’t think we are all that interesting but I keep getting emails this week asking for an update on the Good project. So here goes.
The project has a total of 35 homes in it and today are about 2 weeks [...]

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We are only about 2 weeks from finishing the first phase of homes in Good and that means we are going to be installing the Naturemill kitchen composter soon. They all arrived yesterday and I quickly brought one of them home to try it out.

Its an amazingly well built little machine. I was surprised to [...]

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Let me start by painting a picture for you. The sun is setting off in the distance while off behind you faintly you can hear the sweet melody of birds. The river sprawls out in front of you as you dip your feet in its cool embrace. Your heart slows as the sound of the [...]

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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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I got this email from Stephanie our coordinator at USGBC.
“I am extremely pleased to present the Stage 2 Final Review for LEED for Neighborhood Development Pilot project #10101868 Good which awards your project 43 points and a “Certified” rating. Congratulations! This is an impressive accomplishment.”
Hooray!
This has been an enlightening process to be involved with [...]

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