November 2011
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Nov 28th
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Sea Ranch a 'Beautiful Example of Environmental...
” the totality of The Sea Ranch offers an example of an environmentally sensitive development and place that is also sublimely beautiful…” I find this quote by Sarah Williams Goldhagen in the New Republic to be very provocative and am wondering how she objectively supports such a strong claim.  Her article mentions nothing about sustainability — For example, the...
Nov 28th
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Nov 28th
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Nov 23rd
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Nov 16th
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Complicated Housing at UC Merced →
The planners on the Merced campus had mentioned this phenomenon to me recently and I thought it was fascinating.  Now it appears in the NY Times.
Nov 15th
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Nov 11th
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Nov 5th
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Freeze Your Jeans to be Green
To save water, “Levi Strauss suggests washing jeans rarely, if at all — the theory being that putting them in the freezer will kill germs that cause them to smell.”
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