https://on40.org/blog Blending original nature into urban neighborhoods to enhance modern living and restore the original land. en-us https://on40.org/blog/the-land-ethic https://on40.org/blog/the-land-ethic Mon, 11 Oct 2021 11:13:41 GMT alan Reading the San Country Almanac again after many years, we are reminded of how little has anything changed… the 20th century was going to do what it was going to do, no awakening or ethical considerations would be allowed to defeat our progressive rush to cover all the land with concrete and sell it off, […] https://on40.org/blog/plants-of-sf-bay-area https://on40.org/blog/plants-of-sf-bay-area Sun, 10 Oct 2021 13:30:32 GMT alan CALYCANTHUS FAMILY (Calycanthaceae) Calycanthus occidentalis, Spicebush BUTTERCUP FAMILY (Ranunculaceae) Clematis lasiantha, Chaparral Clematis Clematis ligusticifolia, Western Virgin’s Bower BARBERRY FAMILY (Berberidaceae) Mahonia dictyota, Jepson’s Mahonia Mahonia nervosa, Long-leaf Mahonia Mahonia pinnata, Shiny-leaf Mahonia CACAO OR STERCULIA FAMILY (Sterculiaceae) Fremontodendron californicum, Flannel-bush MALLOW FAMILY (Malvaceae) Lavatera arborea, Tree Mallow Lavatera assurgentiflora, Malva Rosa Malacothamnus arcuatus Malacothamnus […] https://on40.org/blog/ethnobotany-of-south-sf-bay-costanoans https://on40.org/blog/ethnobotany-of-south-sf-bay-costanoans Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:42:35 GMT margaret johannsen Derived from work by Barbara R Bocek (work in progress) APPENDIX This summarizes the ethnographic uses of 157 plants known to Harrington’s Costanoan informants. Organization is generally consistent with Munz (1974), with some reference to Munz (1968) and to Munz and Keck (1959), and with genera and species listed alphabetically. Nonnative species are marked with […] https://on40.org/blog/some-commentary-from-henry-george https://on40.org/blog/some-commentary-from-henry-george Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:05:18 GMT alan What is necessary to enable labor to produce these things, is land. When we speak of labor creating wealth, we speak metaphorically. Man creates nothing. The whole human race, were they to labor forever, could not create the tiniest mote that floats in a sunbeam—could not make this rolling sphere one atom heavier or one […] https://on40.org/blog/byxbee-basin https://on40.org/blog/byxbee-basin Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:27:31 GMT alan blah balah blaha blah…contining blah Clustered Field Sedge Carex praegracilis CNPS blah Olive Green Cutworm Moth dargida procinctus CNPS looking back Umber Skipper Poanes melane (CNPS) on chaparral mallow malachothamnus fasciculatus Common Ringlet Coenonympha tullia blah Crossing where the water goes across the trail bkag we’re through Byxbee hill in distance…denuded of all life blah […] https://on40.org/blog/local-business-in-the-on40-model https://on40.org/blog/local-business-in-the-on40-model Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:57:16 GMT alan from YES magazine How Neighbors Turned Unused Buildings into a Thriving Community Hub As rents rise and independent businesses in Minneapolis lose their leases to large national chains, a first-of-its-kind co-op found a solution. Fair State’s annual Co-Optoberfest brings Northeast Minneapolis together through beer, brats, and Bavarian-style merriment every fall. Photo by Davin Haukebo-Bol. After […] https://on40.org/blog/sfc-near-flood https://on40.org/blog/sfc-near-flood Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:06:14 GMT alan https://on40.org/blog/sfc-walkthrough https://on40.org/blog/sfc-walkthrough Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:11:43 GMT alan https://on40.org/blog/tree-canada-releaf-program https://on40.org/blog/tree-canada-releaf-program Thu, 02 Feb 2017 11:50:31 GMT alan ​ TREE CANADA ANNOUNCES MAJOR INVESTMENT TO RESTORE FOREST AND URBAN GREENSPACES DESTROYED BY FORT MCMURRAY FIRES Edmonton, AB – February 2, 2017 – Tree Canada, the nation’s leading national tree planting charity, today announced a more than $1 million investment to restore the forests destroyed by the devastating Fort McMurray wildfires last year. Following overwhelming […] https://on40.org/blog/a-patchwork-of-on40s-forms-the-virtual-forest https://on40.org/blog/a-patchwork-of-on40s-forms-the-virtual-forest Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:59:37 GMT alan first lupine after many springs coexistence is possible, as a confederation of native environments, connected by Elk Trails https://on40.org/blog/both-path-and-destination https://on40.org/blog/both-path-and-destination Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:35:19 GMT alan https://on40.org/blog/infilling-infill https://on40.org/blog/infilling-infill Fri, 06 Jan 2017 09:26:34 GMT alan frosty morning in 3rd moon rising https://on40.org/blog/ramos-park-walk https://on40.org/blog/ramos-park-walk Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:03:49 GMT alan Ramos Park walk-through Entrance: Walk counter-clockwise https://on40.org/blog/cubberly-master-parks-plan-proposal https://on40.org/blog/cubberly-master-parks-plan-proposal Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:08:18 GMT on40 Today Cubberly Park is a hodge-podge of historical artifacts, buildings, neglected courtyards, former classrooms, open sports fields without shade, windy tennis courts, trailers, old broken roads still partially in use   Our overall goal for Cubberly is to transform this nearly forgotten 38 acre parcel into something more resembling an active Community Center and Nature+Sports […] https://on40.org/blog/social-ecology-murray-bookchin https://on40.org/blog/social-ecology-murray-bookchin Fri, 01 Jul 2016 05:14:32 GMT alan The problems which many people face today in “defining” themselves, in knowing “who they are” — problems that feed a vast psychotherapy industry — are by no means personal ones. These problems exist not only for private individuals; they exist for modern society as a whole. Socially, we live in desperate uncertainty about how people […] https://on40.org/blog/understanding-original-nature-first-contact-1769 https://on40.org/blog/understanding-original-nature-first-contact-1769 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT Portola Diaries The first contact of Europeans in California