Green Room

• In another step forward for the Atlanta Beltline, the city will spend $30 million for a new park near City Hall East, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The funds will secure land for a stormwater pond system that could eventually…

• The city of Atlanta announced intentions to purchase a small block adjacent to Oakland Cemetery to preserve as greenspace. Atlanta City Council members Carla Smith, Natalyn Archibong and Kwanza Hall sponsored the legislation; the purchase price, which could be…

Greenroom: September 2007

• Athens’ W.H. “Dink” NeSmith, president of Community Newspapers Inc., has donated a 1,010-acre conservation easement located along the banks of the Altamaha River in Wayne County to The Nature Conservancy of Georgia. A conservation easement is a legally binding…

Atlanta’s long suffering transportation community was not spared the humiliation of the 2007 General Assembly, much to the insult of residents anxious for real solutions to traffic problems that are to be compounded by the repaving of Inter-states 75 and…

June 2007: The Green Room

GreenRoom: May 2007

Environmental Update

Environmental Update

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