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Proud father moment to see Caslon graduate confident and happy from Urban High School and ready to got to Oberlin College in the fall.

What about establishing a Foundation Farming School, say near San Francisco in Richmond or El Cerrito?    A motto might be “Learn to Grow.”   This school could have the farmers live on the property and teach each other and explore new … Continue reading →

Pete Leyden has a new format mini-conference using Google Hangout: the reinventor series.   Last week he invited me to talk about Foundation Housing and had serious housing experts critique it and explain some of their ideas for affordable housing. (I … Continue reading →

Today I had a fabulous sushi lunch with Ted Nelson, my son Logan, and paid 0.35BTC!  This is such fun.   A first for me.       Today about 1/3 of the headquarter’s staff got paid partially in Bitcoins today … Continue reading →

I have been playing around with Bitcoin, the mathematically very cool digital currency.     It occurred to me that it is the “local currency” of the Internet.   There are local currencies like Ithaca Hours or Bernal Bucks that facilitate trading within … Continue reading →

A friend mentioned an organization in Marin County: Community Land Trust Association of West Marin that was set up to buy or get bequests of housing and use it for those that work in the area.  The problem is that … Continue reading →

My brother-in-law runs an auto repair shop that opened a couple of years ago in a town of 30,000 in northwestern Georgia.   He joined a “Barter Exchange” and this has lead more customers to him, and helped him buy meals … Continue reading →

  What if we could have headphones that changed what music played based on where it was?   If we could make a 100,000 square foot public space with different music playing in every square foot, and then cluster the types … Continue reading →

Jim Zarra of a church in New Jersey gave me a tour of 2 houses that they own and run that are in many ways, debt-free and public benefit.    They also have an 11 unit addition to their church … Continue reading →