I pretty much shoot from the hip with blog postings. I post stuff that seems interesting. Lately I’ve put up a few posts that got a lot of feedback:
https://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-california-needs-high-speed-rail.html
https://lloydkahn-ongoing.blogspot.com/2011/12/jay-shafers-tiny-house-into-manhattan.html?showComment=1325873550928#c1070406639876125639
I have to confess to not analyzing what I post, I just throw it out there, and I like the discussions generated. With the high speed rail issue, for example, I learned a lot from the comments. After reading them, I don’t think high speed rail is right for California.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Lloyd, I changed my mind on this issue too.
Here's my column at Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-harris/california-high-speed-rail_b_1082496.html
-Jonathan Harris
I think it would have been a great use of the wealth of the last few decades. But c'est la vie. It's a good idea whose time is later.