Tag: Atlanta

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  Tom Vanderbilt On The Importance Of Walking, Both For Our Health and For Our Cities

  St. Augustine said "Solvitur Ambulando": It is solved by walking. So does Tom Vanderbilt in this great series in Slate.

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  Perkins + Will Retrofits 25 Year Old Office Building to LEED Platinum

  Proof that buildings from the 70s and 80s can be fixed well instead of demolished: Perkins + WIll gets the highest LEED score in America.

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  How Refugees are Cultivating a Garden and Growing Community

  A community garden in Atlanta proviudes refugees from around the Globe a space to grow food, share their culture and to build community as a result.

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  Lloyd Alter's Favourite Stories of 2011: July

  It's summertime, and the living is easy, and we are talking about air conditioning.

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  Porsche American Headquarters Has Green Roof, Natural Ventilation

  There is something contradictory about building a Green Porsche Headquarters at an Aeropolis, but whatever.

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  Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Have No Car, No Access To Transit

  Here is an interesting juxtaposition of stories; Kaid Benfield at NRDC Switchboard picks up on a study about how dangerous it is to be a pedestrian in America. He quotes Transportation for America: In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than

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  Walkscore Rates the Most Walkable Cities In America. Is It A Useful Metric?

  Yesterday I wrote about a mom who was convicted of vehicular homicide after her son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run, because she crossed the street from a bus stop without walking almost half a mile to the traffic light. Today Walkscore has released

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  Mom Charged With Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street After Kid Killed By Hit-and-Run

  I have been trying to write something punchier than David Goldberg at Transportation for America did but I cannot, this event is "so utterly outrageous, so emblematic of the failure of our current transportation

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  How Old Hotel Soap Can Save Thousands of Lives

  I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are

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  The Hub, a Shared Work Space for People Who Care. In a City near You!

  Working in shared office spaces is an attractive solution for creative start-ups, and has become more and more sought-after in many of the bigger cities. Green Spaces in Manhattan has turned into a well-working

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  TreeHugger Staff Meets in Atlanta, Gets Overtaken by Beards (Pics)

  This week, the full-time TreeHugger crew met up in Atlanta to pow-wow over the blog we all know and love. We are serious subscribers to the working-from-home-is-green ethic, but about every 18 months or so, we get together to

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  Slow Food Pop-Tarts, Made with Serious Love (A Foodie Gift Find!)

  With science pointing to all the pitfalls of sugar on human health and longevity, I have ever more reason to curb desserts and hidden sugars. Sadly, "reason" lacks in my vocabulary during the holidays. On

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  How Smart (or Dumb) is your City on the Sun?

  You won't find Lobster Boy in Hartford, Connecticut. Or Salt Lake City, Utah, or Denver, Colorado, for that matter. Those are the top three most "Suntelligent" big cities in the U.S., according to a survey by the American

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  7 Short and Senseless Flights We'd Love to Ban

  Sometimes it's better to drive. Whether that means you carpool, rent a car, or take public transportation the fact of the matter is that you'd blow more carbon emissions if you traveled by airplane. Not only do you

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  What Does Al Gore Have to Do With Football?

  This week former Vice-President Al Gore made a stop by Atlanta last week to talk about...well, climate change. But while he was there, he took the time out to talk to one of the NFLs most green athletes, Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. Still

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  Emory U Students Pledge to Do 3 Green Things

  As part of their larger Campus Sustainability Initiative, Emory University (GA) students are being asked to commit to each doing three green things in their personal life and on campus. While the program is voluntary, the university

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  Teddylux Recycled Cashmere Soft Toys

  Abandon not all ye moth-eaten and shrunken cashmere sweaters—designer Brooke Serson Cernonok of Teddylux can sprout an entire menagerie from your castoffs.

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  First Zero Waste Zone in the Southeast Announced in Downtown Atlanta

  This Tuesday, environmental leaders will gather in Atlanta to announce the creation of the first Zero Waste zone in the southeast. The zone will be in the convention district of downtown Atlanta, where Phase One will be