If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.Its fun to move into a new neighborhood not too far from where you were before, you can discover a whole new place without having to start all over finding new friends and a new life. We moved into Good about 2 weeks [...]

[Read more →]

I sort of start talking fast when I talk about things that I am passionate about and the Good project is definitely one of those things. Here is a video we made about the Good project. We are going to have an open house on Wednesday from 11 - 3 and again Saturday from 12-4.
The [...]

[Read more →]

Sad has taken on a whole new definition in the last 5 months for me, and so when I call this sad I mean on a lighter more “sad but we are still okay sad” and not a rip your heart out sad.   Still to see that one of the four beautiful Oak trees [...]

[Read more →]

I actually never thought of it until tonight, why people were called tree-huggers. I guess I just assumed is was because there were crazy environmentalists who hugged trees (and perhaps there are).
But this article helps us understand tree-huggers of a different nature.
I guess it resonates with me a bit [...]

[Read more →]

I was riding into work the other day and pulled up behind a set of Fallen Leaf Tree Service massive chipper and hauling trucks – the kind that normally spray nasty diesel exhaust all over. But this one had a sticker on the back that caught my eye “All Fallen Leaf Tree Service equipment [...]

[Read more →]

Riffing off a theme developed over the past several comments of late, I submit this book as one of the best treatments of altruism I’ve read to date, mostly because its handled with such simplicity and honesty.
But there’s more to this book than simply a message about “generosity.”
For many years, whenever I read this story, [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

Laundry must be in the air these days (no pun intended): this being our second post in a week on the topic.
I remember as a kid, I used to imagine all kinds of trees that grew all kinds of cool stuff. Like say, Tonka Trucks (remember those?…the heavy-duty steel ones…my mom found some of [...]

[Read more →]

It must be tree-week here at LJUrban. Yesterday, I posted on big trees. Now, I’m looking at SACOG’s regional report. It has a short piece on the Sacramento Tree Foundation, who’s Greenprint document was just adopted by SACOG.
Here’s a quick summary:
Sacramento has really bad air quality (one of 10 most ozone-polluting areas in the [...]

[Read more →]

I really like big trees. I grew up in Sonoma County and one of my best friends’ dads was the park ranger at Armstrong Redwood Forest outside of Guerneville; so I spent a lot of time running in pathways and creekbeds under some of the largest and oldest tree specimens in California.
Lately, I’ve seen several [...]

[Read more →]