Uneasy Rhetoric

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about deep ecology. The concept of “deep ecology” is highly philosophical, but at the application level, in a superficial nutshell, deep ecology is a fundamental shift in behavior and attitudes to bring them to a point where they are more in harmony with the environment.  Shallow ecology is doing [...]

Zwahlen Images posted a whole passel of photographs of Sacramento at night over on the Skyscraper Forums.  Check them out.

LivingInUrbanSac has decided to walk the walk and after talking to a set of movers and shakers, has pulled together a neighborhood meeting on how to make Fremont Park a better neighborhood park.
Fremont Park was an important, if somewhat underutilized, part of my childhood, so I’ve always looked at it and its chronic problems with [...]

Sacramento Regional Transit has a golden opportunity to raise its profile and it has dropped the ball.
One of the myriad ways CalTrans is suggesting people avoid the whole I-5 mess during the next couple months is by taking transit. Granted, those likely most affected by the construction will be those living north and south [...]

It’s been out for a week, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that the California Budget Project released the latest edition of Locked Out (pdf), a report that looks at housing in California. Much of the news in it isn’t new, but it is useful to know the numbers behind some of [...]