Stepping into the High Museum of Art’s second floor, visitors are transported into a world of vibrant colors and lush blooming flowers.
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Fernbank’s “WildWoods: AGLOW” debuts, using light and sound to tell nature’s hidden stories
The outdoor nighttime experience highlights the intricate and vibrant systems of the natural world.
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“Emergence”: Atlanta artist’s ode to city’s hidden waterways
For a landlocked city, Atlanta sure has a lot of water.
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Wilderness Works: Atlanta nonprofit connecting at-risk youth to the outdoors
It’s no secret that spending time outside has a multitude of health benefits — like reduced depression and anxiety, stronger immune systems and even better eyesight. But not everyone has equal access to these benefits.
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Giant metal origami-inspired sculptures debut at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
From now until October 16, Midtown’s Atlanta Botanical Garden will be the home not only to a sea of blooming and thriving flora, but also a new outdoor art exhibit featuring large, metal origami-inspired sculptures. “Origami in the Garden” is an all-new art exhibition including 18 installations with over 70 sculptures inspired by origami, the […]
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Nature POP! at the Zoo — The “perfect union” between art, science and nature
When taking a walk through Zoo Atlanta this summer, visitors will notice some animals that weren’t there before. But unlike their furry and feathered neighbors, these animals are crafted from tens of thousands of LEGO bricks. That’s right, your favorite toy from childhood has come to life. Featuring 40 sculptures of animals and nature scenes […]
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Going into Earth Week, a look at metro Atlanta’s greatest gifts and top issues
By Hannah E. Jones For over five decades, Earth Day has been reserved for going outside, showing love for Mother Earth and, through small acts and large-scale efforts, serving as a steward and champion of the natural environment. With the 52nd annual Earth Day approaching, SaportaReport asked local experts to reflect on the current state […]
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Hambidge Center creates space in North Georgia for creatives to thrive
By Hannah E. Jones Your phone buzzes. Car horns blare. A new email in your inbox. The responsibilities of daily life can make it difficult to carve time out for creative endeavors, but in the mountains of North Georgia, there’s another way of life. Welcome to The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences. […]
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Sorry Piedmont, Westside Park is the new top dog
For 117 years, Piedmont Park has been Atlanta’s largest green oasis, offering an escape from the bustle of city life. Now, Westside Park has come to take the crown with nearly 100 more acres than Midtown’s favorite park. Westside boasts views of the skyline, walking and cycling paths and a 35-acre aquatic footprint in the […]
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City of Atlanta seeking to protect nature while the urban area grows
For the first time in its history, the city of Atlanta has completed an in-depth study of its ecology as a way to help protect our natural environment while anticipating a greater growth in population and density.
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Atlanta tweaks tree protection, floats idea of forming urban forestry division
Atlanta continues to tinker with its ordinances to protect trees and the vaunted tree canopy. The city this month has partially protected the Tree Trust Fund and started discussing the formation of a forestry division to manage wooded land.
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Fourth annual City Nature Challenge begins Friday, but isn’t a challenge in Covid-19 era
This year’s City Nature Challenge isn’t a challenge at all, but a shared opportunity for citizen scientists to watch and record species in an urban environment. Fernbank Museum is, for the second time, coordinating the event across metro Atlanta.
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‘Three Identical Strangers’ – movie tracks triplets separated at birth
Everybody finds the first day of college a little weird, but it was, well, doubly so for Bobby Shafran.
When he arrived at Sullivan County Community College in 1980, total strangers were happy to see him. Guys high-fived him. Girls gave him a hug. Finally, someone put, well, two and two together and asked him if he was adopted. He was.
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Atlanta striving to restore our natural amenities – our trees and our waterways
East Lake. Lake Claire. Vine City. Parkway Drive. Lakeview Avenue. Ponce de Leon Avenue.
Atlanta is full of streets and neighborhoods with names that hark back to a different time – when the city’s natural environment defined communities before they became built up, paved over or tunneled under.
Now a comprehensive effort is underway to bring back Atlanta’s natural amenities and make them part of our city’s future.
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Atlanta City Design 2017: A grand vision for people, nature and people in nature
In a City Hall conference room, Atlanta Planning Commissioner Tim Keane gently unrolled a mega-watercolor that Christian Sottile, an urban designer from Savannah, had painted of the new Atlanta City Design.
The watercolor captured the significance of the design process and its potential for Atlanta by using a graphic style that dates back to the early 1900s – depicting a desire fort this design tol become part of city’s landscape and identity for decades to come.
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Historic Oakland by Kelly Jordan
This week’s theme is Historic Oakland
