See update in story! Gov. Sonny Perdue’s proposed budget would reduce EPD funding to Clean Air Campaign, an Atlanta nonprofit that helps businesses and individuals to green their commutes, according to Southeast Green. The Clean Air Campaign cut? A whopping $620,000, which has got to be a fair piece of the organization’s budget. I’ve put a note [...]

Eight days of civil disobedience at the Coal River mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia has largely notice from the national media. But it has all the markings of a significant act of civil disobedience. There’s a cause: The fight against more mountaintop removal of coal, which by any measure is an extremely destructive form of [...]

French-owned cement giant LaFarge agreed to pay fines and reduce pollution coming out of 13 plants nationwide, including one near Atlanta, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday. According to a settlement been the EPA and LaFarge, the company has agreed to shutter a cement kiln that it operates near the Chattahoochee River in northwest Atlanta. I’m [...]

Well, that was fast. The controversial $120 million redevelopment of parts of Jekyll Island apparently has been scuttled — one day after Gov. Sonny Perdue and others participated in a groundbreaking on the state component of the project. Critics, led by state Rep. Jeff Chapman, who represents the island’s residents, argued that an agreement between the [...]

I took the photo above earlier this month during a tour of the Beltline’s Northeastern section with Angel Poventud, the uber-activist. What do we see in the photo? A high-rise at the corner of 10th and Monroe. As Linda Richman used to say, talk amongst yourselves, and see a personal disclosure below. And while you talk amongst yourselves, [...]

Georgia Tech Professor Judith Curry The last time Georgia Tech hurricane expert Judith Curry drew attention from the popular media she was a little miffed. In 2005, Curry and a colleagues testified before a Senate committee on a study they’d authored, which found that global warming was making hurricanes stronger. An aide to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., [...]

Part of crowd at Candler Park Fall Fest Greener schools, local foods, recycling and the sad state of public transit in Atlanta seemed to be the top concerns of 400 or so folks who stopped by the My Green ATL booth last weekend at Candler Park Fall Fest. Here’s your chance to add to the [...]

The chairwoman of the Georgia Legislature’s Marta oversight committee is threatening to restructure the Marta board to kick members who don’t vote the way she wants them to, Georgia Unfiltered reports. Marta officials responded sharply to the threat by Rep. Jill Chambers, R-Chamblee, whose latest clash with the agency is over Marta’s efforts to hire lobbyists [...]

Remember this episode? The Flinstones and the Rubbles head out to the “Grand Canyon” for a vacation. They end up staring down at a tiny creek running across a flat piece of dessert. “Gee, Fred, it don’t look like much,” Barney says. “Yeah,” Fred answers, “but they say it’s going to be a big thing someday.” Welcome to [...]

(Originally posted on Atlanta Unsheltered. Go here to see comment thread). As I wrote last night, Maria Saporta’s questions at Tuesday’s mayoral candidates forum shed much-needed light on who the candidates are. Not what they say, what they DO. And to recap, they pretty much live outside of the core of the city in subdivisions or suburban areas. [...]