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EnvisionATL brainstorms highfalutin dreams

BY Ken Edelstein December 8, 2010

Get 200-plus civic-minded people together in a room, ask them to envision a “sustainable” city, and you can be sure of one outcome: They’ll come up with some high-minded ideas.
The ultimate question, of course, is how — or whether — anyone will ever convert those dreams into reality. But that’s not the question that the EnvisionATL brainstormers were …

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Jet skiing through the tar balls

I once met a woman on a Florida beach who shared with me her disgust at her son’s latest infatuation: Jet skiing. Jet skis are so loud and obnoxious, she groused, that Germany had actually banned them. I told her I ...


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Electronics recycling

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The week’s Tweets from My Green ATL

BY Ken Edelstein 01/22/2012 • 11:00 pm

GreenLaw’s top coal plant warrior heading to Florida | RenewATL http://t.co/k5aqdq2T # Dothan riverkeeper fighting Lower Alabama efforts to build reservoir and to sell water to Atlanta | Dothan Eagle http://t.co/upu8e...


The week’s Tweets from My Green ATL

BY Ken Edelstein 12/18/2011 • 11:00 pm

Durban Climate Talks Not A Total Disaster After All http://t.co/DlQiIBJJ # ...


The week’s Tweets from My Green ATL

BY Ken Edelstein 12/11/2011 • 11:00 pm

State-appointed watchdog: Georgia Power's nuclear Plant Vogtle already five months behind schedule http://t.co/nzOHX2dn # ...


The week’s Tweets from My Green ATL

BY Ken Edelstein 12/04/2011 • 11:00 pm

A Dallas project placing a park over a freeway could inspire efforts to remake Atlanta's Downtown Connector | RenewATL http://t.co/mWmGvwXo # NPR: 2.1% of metro Atlanta car sales are hybrid or electric, one-fourth...


The week’s Tweets from My Green ATL

BY Ken Edelstein 11/13/2011 • 11:00 pm

Join us at Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable Friday on 'Historic Preservation as a Sustainable Practice" http://t.co/wT3b464c # ...