Agnes Scott College has become the first educational institution to bar idling vehicles on campus, the private Decatur college for women announced today. Trucks and service vehicles on campus will now be required to turn off their engines while making deliveries. “No Idle Zone” signs will be placed in the three areas where service and delivery [...]

From Susan Kidd, director of sustainability at Agnes Scott College, via inDecatur: David Orr, a pioneer of the campus sustainability movement, returns to Agnes Scott College to speak on “Down to the Wire: Education in a Hotter Time.” His lecture is set for Jan. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Presser Hall’s Gaines Chapel. Orr, a former faculty [...]

Prominent Atlanta environmental health expert Howard Frumkin was reassigned last week to a position within the CDC “with less authority, a smaller staff and a lower budget,” according to the investigative website ProPublica. A September 2008 congressional commiettee report detailed, which was covered extensively by ProPublica, detailed Frumkin’s role in a controversy over a flawed CDC [...]

Georgia may rank near the very bottom when it comes to green living. When it comes to green death, however, we’re right near the top. Two of the nation’s 15 “exclusively green” cemeteries are in Atlanta, according to the AJC. And the proponent of one in Macon is planning to sue the county commission over an ordinance [...]

Don’t you wish they’d just listen to you? You, after all, really care about the environment. You took the time to find out whether cloth diapers are greener than disposables … where the new farmer’s market is … what your kid’s school is doing about climate change. If that describes you, it’s time you shared your knowledge [...]