Here’s a really neat documentary on community gardening in Atlanta by Public Broadcasting Atlanta. A lot of inspirational projects here — Oakhurst, Grant Park, etc. — and a lot of familiar faces. Also some great tips. h/t to It’s the Simple Things.

Scientists believe they’ve found a key cause for the mysterious decline in honeybees that have hit the American bee colonies particularly hard. It’s weakened immune systems linked to reduced biodiversity of plant life, according to a study by the French National Institute for Agriculture Research. The honeybee decline is a more important issue than most of [...]

Here are five vegetarian restaurants worth checking out in Atlanta. Although I wouldn’t say that they constitute the “top five vegetarian restaurants” in Atlanta (as the post intimates), I’ll vouch for each of them. My favorite of the five: Sunflower Cafe.

This is the second of five My Green ATL articles to help Atlantans combat climate change. The first guide covers “5 ways to use less gasoline.“ Here’s a surprising comparison: Only fifteen percent of greenhouse gas emissions caused by human beings comes from transportation, according to a 2006 report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. [...]

Hey, this here’s a great story from Atlanta Magazine. So well written. So well researched. So insightful. Who wrote it? Oh, yeah: Me! Dee Dee Digby worked more than a decade for produce suppliers at the State Farmers Market. Then she stumbled upon a way to upset the applecart. The facility in Forest Park bills itself as [...]