Crappy house blues? This could be yours…

By Alexa Schirtzinger on April 8th, 2010

This just in from Jackie Topacio, the casting producer for ABC-TV’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition:

We are beginning another huge push in Santa Fe…to find a great family that we can help with an Extreme Makeover! …[W]e are looking for families of good people that always give back to their community and deserve an Extreme Makeover to their home. …Or since New Mexico has unique builds, it can be about a family wanting an Eco-Friendly or Green type home.

April 30 is the deadline for applying, and families interested in applying (or people interested in nominating a family) should send “a short description of their family story” to extremesantafe@gmail.com. More tips for applying after the jump. Continue reading »

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

By Corey Pein on April 27th, 2009

A new thoroughfare will take years, or even decades, to create.”

The Journal North on the city’s very long-range plans to pretty up St. Michael’s Drive.

China is adding some 2 billion square meters of construction area per year, accounting for nearly half the world’s total.”

A Beijing enviro-blogger on the pace of development there.

Two billion square meters is about two Dallases, by the way.

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