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 [...]

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 [...]

This is the first of five articles ways to combat climate change in Atlanta. If you average out the numbers just for every motorized vehicle on Atlanta’s roads, around 13,000 pounds of carbon is emitted for each man, woman and child in the metro area. That’s a heck of lot more than people in most other cities [...]