Gardening classes in Decatur at the Oakhurst Community Garden!
Oakhurst Community Garden in Decatur has published its upcoming list of gardening classes, including everything from beehives to slow food eating to worm composting to holiday glass dishes! Indoor classroom space is available, too, if the weather looks rough, so there’s no reason to miss out!
A few tips for a green Halloween (it doesn’t have to be ALL commercial!)
What would you do to promote a green Halloween? From buying local pumpkins to not driving kids from neighborhood to neighborhood, here are a few thoughts on an eco-friendly holiday!
Celebrate Halloween in Decatur with the Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve’s 10th Annual Harvest Festival!
Come enjoy the sights and sounds of nature on an autumn evening at Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve’s tenth annual Harvest Celebration on Saturday, October 31 (Halloween!), from 4-8 p.m. Bring the family to enjoy music, crafts, nature walks, and a warm campfire with your neighbors.
Making strides on race recycling with B Green Recycling at the Silver Comet Half-Marathon!
This year, the Silver Comet Half-Marathon is going to be eco-friendly with race recycling provided by B Green Services! The Atlanta recycling company will have recycling bins strategically placed near each of the water stops along the course and will have one of our volunteers work with the water stop volunteers to ensure all recyclables go into the bin and anything else goes into the trash (although most everything out there will be recycleable).
High speed rail between Atlanta and Macon? Georgia has applied for federal funding.
Georgia applied for a federal grant earlier this month for $472 million to fund a high-speed rail between Macon / Lovejoy and Atlanta. This is one piece to the proposed multi-modal transportation hub to be centered in downtown Atlanta. Expanding commuter rails out from the heart of Atlanta are one part of a bigger transportation plan and make it difficult to know where to best put our money and efforts first.
Georgia Organics October Farm to School Roundtable: Your Edible School Garden
Georgia Organics invites you to join them and the Edgewood Community Learning Garden for this month’s Farm to School Roundtable Discussion! This month’s topic is Community Resources for Your Edible School Garden and Farm to School Projects. Come learn about community resources for your school garden and farm to school projects.
Georgia Tech presents the Atlanta Science Cafe on Climate Change and Sustainability
Inspired by the PBS’ Science Cafe movement and sponsored by Georgia Tech, the Atlanta Science Café on Climate Change and Sustainability – a series of free events for the Decatur, Midtown, & Atlanta communities. Atlanta Science Café will explore the impacts of global climate change and emerging advances in sustainable technologies.
Local Georgia farmers, happy pigs, and organic food at Field of Greens!
Thanks to Whippoorwill Hollow Farms and Slow Food Atlanta for a great Field of Greens celebration this year! Local Georgia farmers, happy pigs, and organic food – delicious!
Stump Jump 50K 2009: A fantastic race and beautiful scenery for my first ultra-marathon!
Yesterday, I ran the illustrious and challenging Stump Jump 50K in Chattanooga, TN – my first ultra-marathon! Due to the fact that the race was 31 miles (which I found out today that the course is actually a little longer) and everything I read about it talked about it being one of the more difficult 50K’s in the southeast, I spent most of this past week worrying about that void of the unknown that awaited me. So, to add to the other Stump Jump 50K reviews and stories that are out there online, here is my adventure…
Our Green Atlantans: Melia Lesko with Greenco Environmental turns Atlanta’s food waste into organic compost!
Tim and Melia Lesko are the founders and driving force of Greenco Environmental, the Southeast’s leading organic composting facility that collects yard waste and restaurant scraps from metro Atlanta and the surrounding areas. This is a little bit about how Greenco got started, how commercial composting works, and which restaurants and establishments in Atlanta compost!
