By Shandra Hill Smith When it comes to one of your most major investments, going green in your home also means saving some of that green in your wallet – in the long run. That proves one of the biggest advantages to greening, according to green experts who are involved from a position of educating […]
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Midtown’s Pop-Up Pocket Park
Atlantans who live and work in the Midtown area will have a new green space to call their own this spring. Real estate investment firm Jamestown has partnered with Midtown Alliance to open a “pop-up pocket park” next to John Marshall Law School. Previously, the space housed two dilapidated, abandoned buildings. This new pop-up pocket […]
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Oakhurst Garden Plant Sale is April 13-15
This year’s annual Oakhurst Community Garden Spring Plant Sale will be the largest ever, with 50 varieties of tomatoes, 30 varieties of pepper, 20 varieties of eggplant and 5 varieties of basil. That’s just some of the natural goodies on offer April 13-15 Organizers said there will be 500 varieties of herbs, fruit trees, perennials, […]
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Behind the BeltLine: CEO Brian Leary
By Han Vance Atlanta BeltLine CEO Brian Leary attended Georgia Tech at the same time as Ryan Gravel, who first envisioned the project. Little did they know that their futures would eventually become entwined as progress on the BeltLine continues. While at Tech, Leary envisioned dirty old industrial sites littering America to have untapped potential. […]
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Green Insider: What Motivates You?
By Laura Turner Seydel When our country celebrated the first Earth Day 42 years ago, we were at an environmental tipping point: our factories spewed black clouds of toxic emissions without apology and it was commonplace to dump toxic waste into our waterways. Both our country and our environment were in desperate need of environmental […]
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Gardening: Return of the Native
By Walt Harrison I thought about entitling this month’s article “If you were born in Rockmart, you can’t call yourself an Atlanta native just because you live here now.” Let me explain. Last week I visited a large plant growing operation near Lavonia, Georgia. This operation grows hundreds of thousands of plants to supply landscapers […]
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Parks and transit in bloom at Park Pride Conference
By Han Vance It was a bright and sunny early spring day at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Piedmont Park, the site of the 11th Annual Parks and Greenspace Conference. This big event of the year for Park Pride, an organization which represents all of Atlanta’s parks, was lead sponsored by Cox Conserves and had […]
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Decatur Kitchen Garden groundbreaking March 14
The Global Growers Network of Refugee Family Services will celebrate the grand opening of Decatur’s Kitchen Garden with a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, March 14, from 8:30 to 9:30 am. This market garden is a collaboration with the United Methodist Children’s Home, Oakhurst Community Garden Project, and Edible Yard & Garden, with support from the […]
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Wild & Scenic Film Festival is March 11
The Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeepr’s fifth annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival will be held Sunday, March 11, at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema starting at 1 p.m. The program offers a mix of films addressing environmental issues such as energy, food systems, biodiversity, climate change and the protection and restoration of wild lands and waters. […]
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Active Adult Communities: Trading extra space for carefree living
By Shandra Hill Smith It’s a question many face once they’ve reached 55 or older: whether to downsize from a home that’s now too big for their needs. For many looking to trade in the extra space for a more carefree lifestyle, a viable option has gained in popularity in recent years. That concept of […]