Log
Red text = Main Street America.
- Off Grid
- Old Fashioned Cold Shelf or California Cooler
- Germ Theory and Microscopy
- It's not the heat. It's the stupidity.
- Map Projections
- Dark Places
- The Pink Collar Ghetto
- Living on the Edge
- The Black Death
- The Jack Reacher Method
- Airships Idea for New Mexico
- Cassava and Potential Economic Opportunity
- Homelessness and Basic Infrastructure
- Local Waste Water Treatment Method Appropriate for Industrial Waste Water
- How to Build an Earthen Oven
- Stone Lines, Swales, Etc.
- Gabions
- Water in the Desert
- Design Flaws
- Local Water Treatment
- Avoiding Accidents and Reducing Damage
- Rotten to the Core
- Aberdeen, Washington
- Improving This Site
- People Problems and Business
- Light Industry
- Industry of the Future
- Farms in the Game SimCity 3000
- Breakfast Bar Ideas
- Upgrading Slums to Basic Decent Housing
- Rural Healthcare
- Leaving Main Street
- Developing Information for a Local Website
- Executive Directors of Main Street and their Boards
- Florida
- A Little Math
- Something from Nothing
- Check it for yourself
- Main Street America is Unfixable
- Websites as a one person shop
- Style Guides
- Development Recipe
- How to Lie with Statistics
- Your Internet Business Card
- Samples of My Website Work for Hire
- Small Town Development
- Emergence
- Places with Stormy Weather
- Passive Solar is not Solar Power
- Minimum Viable Lifestyle
- Using the internet can help homeless individuals get their life back
- A Twist on the Spoon Theory
- Mental Models for Homelessness
- Unraveling the Complicated Question of Mental Health and Homelessness
- Essentials for Homeless Individuals
- How Services Get Found
- The Missing Middle
- Bread and Circus
- In Search of Non-Obvious Answers
- Hepatitis and Homelessness in the USA
- A Van Pool to Put Unsheltered Street Homeless in Underutilized Hostels during the Off Season
- Middle Class Solutions: Showers
- Internal Amnesty
- An Argument for More Housing, Not More Shelters
- Phone Charging Idea
- California Statistics on Homelessness and Housing
- Seattle Statistics on Homelessness and Housing
- Oral Health
- Education and the Weakest Link
- A Middle Class Lifestyle
- Legal Notice: It's okay to translate my work
- Recessions, Business and John Deere
- Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other
- The Overton Window
- One Too Many Problems
- So You Want to Do a Website to Help the Homeless
- Lessons Learned From Writing the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide
- Independently Poor: A Twist on FU Money -- A.K.A. "FU, Money"
- It's Got "Bad Idea" Written All Over It
- E-Gift Cards
- LGBTQ Individuals are at Increased Risk of Homelessness
- Homelessness as Social Death
- Starting Over Someplace New with Very Little
- Resolving Social Drama to Get Your Life Back
- The Butterfly Economy
- Airships and Travel Food
- Pitch Black
- Two Labels
- Independence, Self Reliance and a Future
- Beggars should be Choosers
- Tentative Plans to Stem the Tide
- Needs a ton of research
- This is real. That's not.
- Real Solutions Tend to be Non-Obvious
- So How Would You Actually Shrink the Problem?
- Catholic Charities
- Civilization from the Ground Up
- A Journey of a Thousand Lightyears Begins with a Single Step
- Inputs for an Emergent Pocket of Biosphere
- First Step: The Moon
- Space Development
- Doomers
- Space
- Two Minutes, Two Days, Two Weeks
- When the Family Safety Net Fails
- Dogwoods, Pine Trees, Magnolias and Clam Gardens
- Variations on Prison Stew
- Let Your Food be Your Medicine
- How would you put a stop to this cycle?
- Prison Stew
- Survival Food Recipes
- I thought I would write about growing up in the 'burbs
- Bali Rice Experiment
- Global Food Security: Some Ideas
- Silent Running
- If i Tell You That You Are Not Within Prison, That the Prison is Within You, Can You Believe That?
- The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
- Homeless, Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees
- Labels on this Site
- Public Health Events
- Back-end Analysis
- I don't think this idea is even half baked.
- I have an incomplete BS in Environmental Resource Management with a Concentration in Housing
- And The Survey Says...
- Disasters
- Thinking Out Loud -- Downtown Revisited
- Maps Tutorial
- Defining "Downtown"
- What does a good economic development website look like?
- A Tale of Street Lights
- Historic
- Parking Minimums Post from 10/15/20
- Analysis of "A Climate Love Story"
- Polder Politics
- Gems Hidden in the Folds of Time
- Small Communities and the Bigger Picture
- Housing supply and demand in one screenshot.
- The Lucky Jaguar
- Social capital is the key to community development.
- Comparing My Work to an Existing Model
- So you think there are "no rules"
- Never Split the Difference
- The Butterfly Economy
- Fostering Meaningful Discussion in Low Trust Environments
- An Ounce of Prevention
- Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.
- Doing The Thing
- If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs
- Policies that make the poor less poor
- Workarounds Tend to be Second Rate
- Public Relations
- The Power of Shopping Local
- Perspective
- Community Beautification: Oxygen is Beautiful
- Maps and Mental Models
- Creative Mornings
- Benefits Packages for Small and Micro Businesses
- Diversity and Being Less Exclusionary
- The Business of Art and Community Development
- Citizen Planning in Unincorporated Communities
- Finding Problems to Solve in Your Community
- Project: SRO
- Education, Training and Opportunity
- Get an Online Education in Grant Writing
- Sidestepping the Shirky Principle
- Good Nutrition is Basic Healthcare
- Sustainable Development
- Metrics
- Boundaries and Community Development Work
- A Restaurant that Started as a Part-Time Delivery Service
- On the Internet, No One Knows Your Location If You Don't Tell Them
- What's the Worst that Could Happen?
- Positioning a Reddit
- The Personal and the Political
- Business vs. the Trappings of Business
- Y Combinator, Startup School and Startup Library
- Profile Your Community and Set Development Goals
- Create an Online Community Space for your Geographic Community
- Small Scale Community Development Work
- Promote a Place or Place of Business via Web
- Free and Custom Flyers as a Lightweight Economic Development Tool
- Games as Education in Planning and Economic Development