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		<title>Curb Rental Vacancy Rates with Curb Appeal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all of you savvy &#8216;buy and hold&#8217; real estate investors out there, here&#8217;s a great outline of the value of improving the curb appeal for your rental property by Al Williamson of leadinglandlord.com  Al&#8217;s blog is an ongoing thesis &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/09/26/curb-rental-vacancy-rates-with-curb-appeal/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Solar bottle light bulb is brilliant!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the defining challenges of implementing sustainable design to the point of ubiquity is making the technology simple enough to be easily replicable with very little training, few resources, and marginal costs.  This solution is a brilliant (squared!) solution &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/09/17/solar-bottle-light-bulb-is-brilliant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t park in the bicycle lanes&#8230; or else! :-D</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of our friends at Inhabitat comes this message from the Mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania: don&#8217;t park illegally in the bicycle lanes&#8230; or else!  The article includes the entertaining video PSA of the Mayor, determined to protect the new City &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/08/03/dont-park-in-the-bicycle-lanes-or-else-d/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>4th Wednesday Design Dialogue ~ Vegetative Green Roofs in Sacramento – The California State Lottery Headquarters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening is the 4th Wednesday Design Dialogue at the AIA Central Valley Chapter Office at 1400 S Street in Midtown Sacramento.  This evening a group of architects and landscape architects from LPAS will be sharing their experiences from working &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/27/4wdd/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>City hall clothed in vines</title>
		<link>http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/26/city-hall-clothed-in-vines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted today on Inhabitat: Super Futuristic Noain City Hall is a Plant-Covered Building That Boasts Passive Energy Saving Systems &#124; Inhabitat &#8211; Green Design Will Save the World Deciduous vines are trained on a metal exoskeleton around the building, providing &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/26/city-hall-clothed-in-vines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sacramento Press / Launch 2011: see video here</title>
		<link>http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/22/sacramento-press-launch-2011-see-video-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sacramento Press / Launch 2011: see video here. For those of you who won&#8217;t be able to make it out for the Launch 2011 event, Sacramento Press has just announced they will be posting a live video stream of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/22/sacramento-press-launch-2011-see-video-here/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>24/T infill project takes a step forward</title>
		<link>http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/21/24t-infill-project-takes-a-step-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night at the City of Sacramento Design Commission the infill project at 24/T Streets in Midtown Sacramento took a significant step forward as the Commission forwarded advisory conditions and a recommendation for approval to the Planning Commission.  The project &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/21/24t-infill-project-takes-a-step-forward/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>5432Launch! this Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/20/5432launch-this-saturday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Launch 2011 is on this Saturday evening up at the Greens Hotel in North Sacramento!  Looking forward to a great evening of design across media, swimming through a crowd of stylish folks from Sacramento and beyond.  This is gonna be &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/20/5432launch-this-saturday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meanwhile, in NYC&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/20/meanwhile-in-nyc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, here&#8217;s a link to the Inhabitat article on the opening of section 2 of Highline Park.  This park is a stunningly effective adaptive re-use of formerly defunct infrastructure to create valuable public space, in this &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2011/07/20/meanwhile-in-nyc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Going native&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.loftgardens.com/2010/11/10/going-native/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I received the November newsletter from one of my favorite plant nurseries, Lotus Valley Natives. Tucked away along the South Fork American River in Coloma/Lotus Valley, this small but growing plant nursery focuses on making great native plants &#8230; <a href="http://www.loftgardens.com/2010/11/10/going-native/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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