Georgia Tech’s Serve-Learn-Sustain program received a first place award Thursday from the national campus sustainability association, AASHE, for its approach to teaching students methods to solve problems involving environmental sustainability and social justice.
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Whale Week: Female pioneers in conservation to speak about careers for women
A researcher who’s devoted her career to help marine life is to join three other women who work in marine conservation in a discussion Thursday about careers in the sector, as part of the third Whale Week in Georgia.
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Time to pass SAVE Right Whales Act, celebrate state marine mammal during Whale Week
By Guest Columnist NANCY K. DAVES, retired international specialist, NOAA Fisheries
As Winter arrives, ‘tis the season for many holidays. But the ocean off Georgia’s coast has a different reason to celebrate. November marks the beginning of North Atlantic right whale calving season in our southern waters.
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Environmental justice advocates want to promote public health
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with a response from Georgia Power.
Advocates of environmental justice met Tuesday to discuss their interest in promoting public health at the local, state and national levels, and obtaining funding to promote the campaigns.
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Tech’s Kendeda Building featured among world’s problem-solving structures
A video produced by BBC Storyworks and presented by the World Green Building Council has begun airing about Georgia Tech’s Kendeda Building in a series about buildings around the globe that advance concepts of sustainability and equity.
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‘Choked, Strangled, Drowned’ – Groundbreaking report on plastics harming sea life
A stunning new report from Oceana compiles all the known harms done by plastic to sea mammals and turtles in U.S. waters since 2009. Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources contributed to findings that were released Thursday.
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‘Dirty Dozen’: A win before report cites raw sewage polluting Chattahoochee River
Raw sewage won’t be dumped into the Chattahoochee River following a ruling from the state so recent it got ahead of Tuesday’s release of the “Dirty Dozen,” an annual report from the Georgia Water Coalition on 12 environmental threats to the state’s waters.
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Air travel and COVID-19: An opportunity for lasting emissions reductions
By Guest Columnist LALITH POLEPEDDI, a research scientist at Georgia Tech’s Global Change Program
Efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 have radically transformed travel patterns across the globe. Between April and September 2020, global air travel dropped by 58% compared to the same time period in 2019. In the US, air travel dropped by 79% in that same time period. The steepest reductions occurred in the US in April, when air travel fell by 95%, and globally in May, when air travel fell by 68%.
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‘More men have walked on the moon than women have completed’ this boat race
The strength of human spirit will be on display starting Sunday, when six women and 27 men begin a round-the-world sailboat race. Each skipper will be alone in a 60-foot sailboat capable of speeds to 45 mph and, in the Southern Ocean, summiting waves 60 feet high.
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Buckhead bucks trend of flight from cities as subdivision of large lots continues
Buckhead is bucking the reported trend of the wealthy fleeing cities to escape the pandemic. That’s the case in at least two situations.
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Northside Drive to reopen Dec. 7; sewage pump to be complete in August 2021
By David Pendered Northside Drive in Buckhead is to reopen on Dec. 7, ending a total closure of the road for the past three months in a part of the city where travel has been impeded since 2017. Northside Drive is a major North-South roadway along the west side of Buckhead. It runs between I-75 […]
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St. Simons to sea turtles: ‘We’ll be here. Waiting. (For as long as it takes)’
Sea turtles and the volunteers who count their nests share the limelight in the 2020 nesting season in what was the Summer of Pandemic. This includes even the group at St. Simons, which counted just three nests.
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Volunteer environmental groups: Formidable force for Chattahoochee, South rivers
Volunteer environmentalists are fighting two separate battles to keep pollution out of the Chattahoochee River and South River, the two biggest waterways in metro Atlanta.
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DeKalb County vows to stop sewer leaks by 2027 in plan awaiting public comment
DeKalb County has promised to stop leaking raw sewage from its sewer system in certain areas of the county by late 2027. This is part of a negotiated settlement valued at more than $1 billion that lays the blame for failure to fix the system since 2011 on prior county administrations.
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South River Watershed Alliance asks U.S. Court of Appeals to help halt sewer spills
The South River Watershed Alliance has turned to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta in its effort to compel DeKalb County to stop spilling sewage from sewer pipes in all of DeKalb, not just a third of the county as is now the case.
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Georgia Water Coalition commends ‘Clean 13’ for creating more sustainable Georgia
The Georgia Water Coalition paused from its efforts to promote clean waters to celebrate what it called, “extraordinary efforts [that] have led to cleaner rivers, stronger communities and a more sustainable future for Georgians.”
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Air quality a concern in effort to halt quarry proposed along Chattahoochee River
The proposed rock quarry along the Chattahoochee River in Carroll County is slated to emit particles into the atmosphere during its operations 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, if allowed to open on a site across the river from south Fulton County.
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Trump’s ban on offshore oil drilling also halts development of offshore wind farms to 2032
President Trump’s new ban that protects the coast of Georgia and other southern states from offshore oil and gas drilling also bans offshore wind farms until June 30, 2032, bloombergt.com reported Monday.
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Gwinnett County transit vote: Local control is the watchword
In Gwinnett County, local control is the watchword in the campaign for a proposed 1 percent sales tax to expand transit. MARTA will be involved only because state law requires it – and the role is restricted to heavy rail.
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Georgia Conservancy names Katherine Moore as its new president
Katherine Moore, who has worked for the Georgia Conservancy for 11 years, has been selected to be the nonprofit’s new president. She will succeed Bart Gobeil in that role on Oct. 1.
