Beautify Burnt Fork Creek in Decatur with the 2009 Rivers Alive and Hands on Atlanta clean-up day!
This Saturday, October 3, 2009, join your Decatur and Atlanta neighbors for a clean up in beautiful Mason Mill Park near Medlock Park and Emory! 2009 Rivers Alive and Hands on Atlanta are hosting a creek clean-up of Burnt Fork Creek and South Fork of Peachtree Creek, which intersect in the park.
Review of the Doug Kessler 10K race in Sandy Springs: great race, but no recycling!!
I’m tired of seeing Atlanta road races not recycle (like the Doug Kessler 5K and 10K this past weekend). Now, race recycling is coming to metro Atlanta – we’re going to start working with B Green Services to provide race recycling services around the city. Emil Bekyarov heads B Green Services, which currently provides complete recycling solutions to hotels and restaurants around Atlanta, and we’re going to work together to institute race recycling at the Silver Comet Half-Marathon in conjunction with Dana Greene of Get Fit Atlanta!
Atlanta’s own transit system MARTA awarded grant for solar panels
Atlanta’s mass transit system, MARTA, is taking eco-friendly strides towards cleaning up their energy usage by installing new solar panels over 220 bus parking stalls at their maintenance facility in Decatur!
“Know your farmer, know your food” program launched by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture!
In an effort to increase awareness of local farmers and to strengthen bonds with the food we eat, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is debuting a new program: “Know your farmer, know your food!” Grant money will move from the government down to local farmers markets and projects to make fresh fruits and vegetables available to low-income individuals.
Stop loving so much – you’re killing it!
Sometimes, you can love something too much. Like my across-the-street neighbor, who enacts such loving care on his lawn that he overwaters it, kills it, and has to tear it all up again and replant it. Here are some thoughts on ways to avoid a dead lawn and save money at the same time.
Eating locally in Atlanta and Decatur keeps getting easier! Check out these local food articles for tips…
Thanks to increased media coverage of local Atlanta food, farmers’ markets, CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture), and farm-to-table restaurants, the idea of transitioning to a locavore lifestyle is becoming an easier proposition. With the growing movement of shopping locally growing, more stories have popped up on ways to take the steps towards local, sustainable living, and included are a series of articles from Atlanta Magazine and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Morningside Parks Fall Fund Drive for Sidney Marcus Park in Atlanta!
The Sidney Marcus Park in the Morningside neighborhood of Atlanta is still raising money though their Engraved Brick Fundraiser! You can be a part of the environmentally-friendly playground going up in this local Atlanta park!
Fall planting season is nearly here! And I’m looking for mondo grass if you have any you’d like to get rid of…
Fall planting season is here and I’m looking for native mondo grass in the Atlanta and Decatur areas! If you have extra mondo in your yard you don’t want, please let me know and I can come by, dig it up, and take it off of your hands for you.
Greenco Environmental leads the way in Atlanta for commercial composting and making the Zero Waste Zone a reality!
Greenco Environmental is an Atlanta-based composting company that works with restaurants and landscaping companies across the Atlanta area to collect food scraps and yard waste into sought-after local, organic compost.
Free bikes for Atlanta residents from Bicycling Magazine’s “Biketown USA” program!
Are you looking for a change? to improve your health and community? Jamis Bicycles and Bicycling Magazine has posed this question to Americans across the country for the past seven years with the opportunity to win a bike and a chance to make big changes in their lives! Now, Bicycling Magazine has brought the contest to Atlanta and will award a commuter bike to one lucky applicant! Read on below for the details of the contest and when the winner will be announced (thanks to Mallory of Bicycling Magazine for sending this press release along!).
Keep Atlanta Beautiful presents the third annual “Race 2 Recycle” 5K at Piedmont Park!
Mark your calendars and head to Piedmont Park on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 for Atlanta’s 3rd Annual Race 2 Recycle presented by Keep Atlanta Beautiful! Enjoy the outdoors and the sights and sounds of Midtown Atlanta in this 5k and 1 mile fun run around beautiful Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta.
