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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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8OzaloLM

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

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

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

The New Work Truck (and A Bit About Cats)

July 15th, 2008 · 11 Comments

I first have to apologize for the lame blogging here lately. I once got a critisism from this guy that our Blog was a “cat blog”. Meaning that we were only blogging about ourselves (Like someone who writes only about their cat and its boring to read) and not enough about other things. Ouch… Well [...]

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Tags: author: levi · bicycles · our blog · transportation

The Wall Street Journal Digs Sacramento

July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: author: levi · cities · green industry · housing · interview · oil · press coverage · sacramento · suburban sprawl · transportation · urban design

West Sacramento: Kicking Things Up A Notch

July 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: author: levi · bicycles · community · green products · neighborhoods · oil · the good project · west sacramento

Bikes And Bites

July 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: author: steve · bicycles · cities · downtown · green living · midtown · neighborhoods · oil · sacramento · transportation

Measure

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Always a big fan of measuring sustainable efforts I was pleased to see that the EPA is going to be putting labels on new cars sold in California showing the buyer the true impact of both its production and ongoing use. Its about time we knew the story about the cars we drive.  You can [...]

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Tags: author: levi · climate change · environmental preservation · transportation