Residents of East Atlanta who helped build a community gathering place found that they built something in addition to a park – a real sense of community. To hear Joe Peery describe it, the community park came together in a fashion similar to the soup in the folktale about stone soup.
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Atlanta plans sustainability facility at airport to handle up 200,000 tons a year of trash, yard trimmings
Atlanta’s airport plans to hire a company to build and operate a recycling facility that ultimately is to handle 200,000 tons a year of airport waste and yard clippings collected around town, refuse that otherwise would end up in a landfill, according to a bid released Monday.
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Tim Keane: Atlanta’s new planning commissioner has a conversation with residents
For any number of reasons, Charleston, S.C. tugs on Atlanta’s heartstrings. Atlanta’s new planning commissioner seems comfortable with this relation, and has devised a deft response to questions about why he left his job as chief planner with the Holy City.
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‘CSI for sea turtles’ uses DNA from eggs in effort to protect loggerheads
Researchers call it “CSI for sea turtles,” and the process uses DNA collected from eggs to answer questions about nesting habits of loggerhead sea turtles.
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South Carolina joins Georgia in ruling against use of condemnation to build Palmetto Pipeline
A legal opinion issued by the office of South Carolina’s attorney general presents a new obstacle for a proposed pipeline for petroleum and ethanol to be built along the Savannah River and down the Georgia coast, to Jacksonville, Fla.
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Metro Atlanta ranked 4th in green buildings as certification rates dip nationwide: CBRE report
Metro Atlanta ranks fourth nationally on a green building adoption index, according to a new report by CBRE that also revealed a slump in the national growth rate of certification for sustainability or energy efficiency in office buildings.
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Children, families at center of new Casey Foundation report on Atlanta’s future
A new report, this one by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, puts children and families at the center of findings that reaffirm I-20 as the dividing line of household wealth in Atlanta.
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DNR report cites climate change as, ‘central and defining wildlife conservation issue’
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources is predicting in a draft report that climate change will eliminate habitat in Georgia for some species by 2050, even as man-made “sprawl zones” create tremendous challenges for other critters and plants.
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Annual Paddle Georgia event begins Saturday, to pass site of environmental victory
About 400 paddlers are scheduled to depart Saturday from the Statesboro area in the 11th annual Paddle Georgia fundraising event, and their route will take them down a waterway where environmentalists won a major victory.
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GSU art professor helps resculpt Alaska’s plastic ocean trash for CDC museum art
Beach season alert: The persistence of marine debris, carried by enormous ocean currents, inspired the provocative sculptures and assemblages at the odd museum in CDC headquarters. If you swim in the ocean or admire its immense power, seek out “Gyre: The Plastic Ocean” before it closes June 16 at the David J. Sencer CDC Museum. GSU distinguished art professor Pam Longobardi fashioned a giant cornucopia titled “Dark and Plentiful Bounty,” the largest and most complex sculpture of her career. It features only a fraction of the tons of trash gathered from remote inlets in Alaska—garbage that became the palette for the 25 artists in this exhibit.
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Bald eagles continue recovery in Georgia after becoming all but extinct
Bald eagles continue their recovery in Georgia, where preliminary results of a new state study report the highest number of nests ever discovered in Georgia.
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Atlanta wins $280,000 grant to help fund new park along Proctor Creek
Atlanta has won a $280,000 federal grant that’s to help pay for construction of a 9.2 acre park next to Proctor Creek, a blighted waterway near the future Falcons stadium.
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Georgia’s electric vehicle market hits legislative potholes
Original Story by Maria Saporta on WABE Play Audio Georgia rarely ranks as one of the top states in the country for something positive. But with electric vehicles, Georgia has been leading the way. Mayor Kasim Reed boasted that last year we were first in America in the sale of the plug-in Nissan Leaf. Electric […]
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Poachers may be taking alligator snapping turtles, which can bring $10,000 each
Poachers may be to blame for the slow recovery of alligator snapping turtles in Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Wildlife.
Wildlife researcher Rachel King reported that people she met on the Flint River during her survey of snappers last summer complained about the turtles being protected. They told her snappers are good to eat, according to a DNR statement.
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New park helps small city’s residents discover ‘greene’ space and forgotten son of the New South
This week guest contributor BRIAN BRODRICK, city councilman in Watkinsville and Georgia Humanities board member, calls for the memory of Atticus Haygood to be pulled from the shadow of New South spokesman Henry Grady and brought out to our public space.
The name — Atticus Greene Haygood — conjures images of To Kill a Mockingbird and old Georgia, which are both appropriate.
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Georgia Legislature provides a few wins for environmentalists: Solar energy, plastic bags
Georgia lawmakers have resolved two bills in favor of environmentalists – by passing one bill that promotes the installation of solar power, and by killing another that aimed to prevent local governments from regulating plastic bags.
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Mayor Reed’s office responds to report on proposed sustainability ordinance
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration has what it describes as, “serious concerns over the accuracy of claims made,” in a March 24 report of an Atlanta City Council committee meeting on the administration’s proposed sustainability program for commercial buildings. The following is the complete text of a column produced by Denise Quarles, director of the city’s Office of Sustainability, in response to the story:
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Dredging company wins contract for Savannah, vows to protect environment, marine habitat
After 16 years of planning and debate over the deepening of the Savannah Harbor, the federal government announced Wednesday it has hired a company to begin the first phase of dredging.
