An interest — and very frank — column on Atlanta’s dearth of walkable suburbs by the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Dan Reuter. Reuter, the ARC’s land use division chief, says it takes many “villages” to “raise a region.” For a guy who already has a say in the matter, he’s sharply critical of the region, noting that, [...]

Wheego opened reservations for its new all-electric Whip LiFe today, with the Atlanta-based car maker’s CEO offering a hint at how competitive the market for mini-electric cars is about to become. “We are on schedule to be the first company to offer an affordable all-electric car in the U.S.,” Mike McQuary said. “Other auto companies have [...]

Mayor Kasim Reed’s administration is presenting its proposal for a downtown streetcar to City Council this week and hopes to gain approval for the project in time to apply for a $52 million federal grant, Maria Saporta reports. The feds rejected Atlanta’s bid last year for a $300 million for a plan that included a streetcar [...]

Attention transit-happy bloggers and videographers: Now, only the weekend remains for you to compete for fun prizes by singing MARTA’s praises … or posting them … or videotaping them. In preparation for the American Public Transit Association’s “Dump the Pump Day” June 17, MARTA’s soliciting three-minute videos and 300-word blog posts about how great MARTA is [...]

If you haven’t done so yet, check out “Sprawlanta.” It’s a nicely done 10-minute video that focuses on two extremes in metro Atlanta: our endless highways and ‘burbs, and Glenwood Park, the yuppified New Urbanist neighborhood built by Charles Brewer. You may recognize some faces on the mini-documentary — Brewer, Georgia Tech’s Ellen Dunham-Jones, Clark Atlanta’s [...]

Wheego, the Atlanta-based electric car company, will bring its first full-service road vehicle to market next week, when it begins to accept reservations for the new Wheego Whip LiFe. “I’ll give you a sneak preview,” company spokeswoman Susan Nicholson writes me.  “The reservation form goes live June 14 ($100 refundable deposit) and [...]

MARTA’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year is the first spending plan to take advantage of legislation that gives the transit agency more flexibility on the way it spends sales tax money. But budget, which you can examine and comment upon after 5 p.m. today at Atlanta City Hall and in Decatur’s Maloof [...]

Lurking near the back of the solar pack has its advantages. At least that’s what a North Carolina State University solar energy expert told an audience this afternoon at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center. “A lot of people are kind of hard on the Southeast and see the Southeast as one of the slower movers [...]

Atlantans may soon be able to pay for clean energy improvements to their homes through their own property taxes. That’s because legislation signed Friday by Gov. Sonny Perdue allows local development authorities to establish Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, financing. PACE is all the rage in clean energy circles. It helps solve a problem that homeowners [...]

The AJC reported over the weekend that one of the developers planning to buy City Hall East from the city expects the project to have more retail space and fewer condominiums than he originally envisioned. Emory Morsberger, who was the original developer but is now sharing the project with deeper-pocketed Jamestown Properties, notes that the current [...]