occasional linking

Chief Sustainability Officer at GA-Pacific - More and more corporations are including sustainable efforts in their organizational structures and planning. My only question is if the assimilation of green practices as a response to a popular cultural trend will be sustained (ironically) so that effectual change and growth is possible.

Suing the Beltline! - Financial hurdles continue to plague the Beltline's progression. A striking example of how one person can have an incredible impact on a city's growth, for good or for bad.

GreenDimes - We gave the gift of GreenDimes to all of our parents this year as a Christmas gift. The service will stop a large portion of junk mail delivered to your home and ALSO plant 10 trees on your behalf. A simple, cheap way to lessen your environmental impact, and doesn't require any work on your part!

Baggu bags - There seem to be endless options out there for reusable shopping bags. I like these because again, they're cheap (noticing a pattern?), they come in nice colors with no logos or branding and have seemingly endless expansion capabilities.

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what about the rest of the country?

While this blog will be primarily focused on local Atlanta developments, I think it's important to know what's happening around the nation with cities facing similar dilemmas or cities and communities doing really extraordinary things. This week I'll combine local and national news links, but going forward they'll be in two seperate posts.

National News

• Green tax credits taking a hike - two steps forward, one step back.
• Ticky-Tacky Westlake - fantastic pictures of one of the first planned post-war suburbs. A mid-century extravganza.

Local News

• Charter schools in Decatur? - how or would this affect the disparity in schools across redeveloped neighborhoods? Consider the difference between Decatur City's affluent schools like versus Dekalb County's more mixed bag.
• Are we making the same mistakes again? - can Atlanta break its bad habit of excluding less fortunate neighborhoods from city-wide windfalls of good fortune and good design?