Log

Red text = Main Street America.

1. This is a Failed Experiment
2. Off Grid
3. Old Fashioned Cold Shelf or California Cooler
4. Germ Theory and Microscopy
5. It's not the heat. It's the stupidity.
6. Map Projections
7. Dark Places
8. The Pink Collar Ghetto
9. Living on the Edge
10. The Black Death
11. The Jack Reacher Method
12. Airships Idea for New Mexico
13. Cassava and Potential Economic Opportunity
14. Homelessness and Basic Infrastructure
15. Local Waste Water Treatment Method Appropriate for Industrial Waste Water
16. How to Build an Earthen Oven
17. Stone Lines, Swales, Etc.
18. Gabions
19. Water in the Desert
20. Design Flaws
21. Local Water Treatment
22. Avoiding Accidents and Reducing Damage
23. Rotten to the Core
24. Aberdeen, Washington
25. Improving This Site
26. People Problems and Business
27. Light Industry
28. Industry of the Future
29. Farms in the Game SimCity 3000
30. Breakfast Bar Ideas
31. Upgrading Slums to Basic Decent Housing
32. Rural Healthcare
33. Leaving Main Street
34. Developing Information for a Local Website
35. Executive Directors of Main Street and their Boards
36. Florida
37. A Little Math
38. Something from Nothing
39. Check it for yourself
40. Main Street America is Unfixable
41. Websites as a one person shop
42. Style Guides
43. Development Recipe
44. How to Lie with Statistics
45. Your Internet Business Card
46. Samples of My Website Work for Hire
47. Small Town Development
48. Emergence
49. Places with Stormy Weather
50. Passive Solar is not Solar Power
51. Minimum Viable Lifestyle
52. Using the internet can help homeless individuals get their life back
53. A Twist on the Spoon Theory
54. Mental Models for Homelessness
55. Unraveling the Complicated Question of Mental Health and Homelessness
56. Essentials for Homeless Individuals
57. How Services Get Found
58. The Missing Middle
59. Bread and Circus
60. In Search of Non-Obvious Answers
61. Hepatitis and Homelessness in the USA
62. A Van Pool to Put Unsheltered Street Homeless in Underutilized Hostels during the Off Season
63. Middle Class Solutions: Showers
64. Internal Amnesty
65. An Argument for More Housing, Not More Shelters
66. Phone Charging Idea
67. California Statistics on Homelessness and Housing
68. Seattle Statistics on Homelessness and Housing
69. Oral Health
70. Education and the Weakest Link
71. A Middle Class Lifestyle
72. Legal Notice: It's okay to translate my work
73. Recessions, Business and John Deere
74. Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other
75. The Overton Window
76. One Too Many Problems
77. So You Want to Do a Website to Help the Homeless
78. Lessons Learned From Writing the San Diego Homeless Survival Guide
79. Independently Poor: A Twist on FU Money -- A.K.A. "FU, Money"
80. It's Got "Bad Idea" Written All Over It
81. E-Gift Cards
82. LGBTQ Individuals are at Increased Risk of Homelessness
83. Homelessness as Social Death
84. Starting Over Someplace New with Very Little
85. Resolving Social Drama to Get Your Life Back
86. The Butterfly Economy
87. Airships and Travel Food
88. Pitch Black
89. Two Labels
90. Independence, Self Reliance and a Future
91. Beggars should be Choosers
92. Tentative Plans to Stem the Tide
93. Needs a ton of research
94. This is real. That's not.
95. Real Solutions Tend to be Non-Obvious
96. So How Would You Actually Shrink the Problem?
97. Catholic Charities
98. Civilization from the Ground Up
99. A Journey of a Thousand Lightyears Begins with a Single Step
100. Inputs for an Emergent Pocket of Biosphere
101. First Step: The Moon
102. Space Development
103. Doomers
104. Space
105. Two Minutes, Two Days, Two Weeks
106. When the Family Safety Net Fails
107. Dogwoods, Pine Trees, Magnolias and Clam Gardens
108. Variations on Prison Stew
109. Let Your Food be Your Medicine
110. How would you put a stop to this cycle?
111. Prison Stew
112. Survival Food Recipes
113. I thought I would write about growing up in the 'burbs
114. Bali Rice Experiment
115. Global Food Security: Some Ideas
116. Silent Running
117. If i Tell You That You Are Not Within Prison, That the Prison is Within You, Can You Believe That?
118. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
119. Homeless, Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees
120. Labels on this Site
121. Public Health Events
122. Designated "Doggie Toilets"
123. Best Practice: Do Not Engage Teh Crazeh
124. The Clear Connection Between Housing Costs and Homelessness
125. Parking Minimums Post from 10/15/20
126. Beyond Rangoon
127. Short Hair


185. Back-end Analysis
186. I don't think this idea is even half baked.
187. I have an incomplete BS in Environmental Resource Management with a Concentration in Housing
188. And The Survey Says...
189. Disasters
190. Thinking Out Loud -- Downtown Revisited
191. Maps Tutorial
192. Defining "Downtown"
193. What does a good economic development website look like?
194. A Tale of Street Lights
195. Historic
196. Parking Minimums Post from 10/15/20
197. Analysis of "A Climate Love Story"
198. Polder Politics
199. Gems Hidden in the Folds of Time
200. Small Communities and the Bigger Picture
201. Housing supply and demand in one screenshot.
202. The Lucky Jaguar
203. Social capital is the key to community development.
204. Comparing My Work to an Existing Model
205. So you think there are "no rules"
206. Never Split the Difference
207. The Butterfly Economy
208. Fostering Meaningful Discussion in Low Trust Environments
209. An Ounce of Prevention
210. Don't Be Anti Car. Be Pro Something Else.
211. Doing The Thing
212. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs
213. Policies that make the poor less poor
214. Workarounds Tend to be Second Rate
215. Public Relations
216. The Power of Shopping Local
217. Perspective
218. Community Beautification: Oxygen is Beautiful
219. Maps and Mental Models
220. Creative Mornings
221. Benefits Packages for Small and Micro Businesses
222. Diversity and Being Less Exclusionary
223. The Business of Art and Community Development
224. Citizen Planning in Unincorporated Communities
225. Finding Problems to Solve in Your Community
226. Project: SRO
227. Education, Training and Opportunity
228. Get an Online Education in Grant Writing
229. Sidestepping the Shirky Principle
230. Good Nutrition is Basic Healthcare
231. Sustainable Development
232. Metrics
233. Boundaries and Community Development Work
234. A Restaurant that Started as a Part-Time Delivery Service
235. On the Internet, No One Knows Your Location If You Don't Tell Them
236. What's the Worst that Could Happen?
237. Positioning a Reddit
238. The Personal and the Political
239. Business vs. the Trappings of Business
240. Y Combinator, Startup School and Startup Library
241. Profile Your Community and Set Development Goals
242. Create an Online Community Space for your Geographic Community
243. Small Scale Community Development Work
244. Promote a Place or Place of Business via Web
245. Free and Custom Flyers as a Lightweight Economic Development Tool
246. Games as Education in Planning and Economic Development