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Atlanta’s Brown Middle School teamed up with Trees Atlanta and Atlanta Audubon to launch a pilot environmental education partnership. I just love seeing kids learning good habits. I feel like this sort of thing helps shape environmentally responsible grownups! You can read all about the program over at my post on Ecolocalizer!
<3,
Becky

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Dave has been wanting to replace the dirt and weeds out back with a moss lawn for a while, and I finally got around to reading up on them. I knew that traditional lawns were pretty wasteful, but WOW. Check it:
The EPA says that about 15% of [...]

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I discovered the awesome Twilight Earth not too terribly long ago and frankly fell in love. Today, they rolled out a new series called Good News Monday. Each Monday, they’re going to focus only on good green news. Hurrah! What better way to keep thinking positive, [...]

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When my friend Genevieve from SEWphisticate wrote about turning #6 plastic into shrinky dinks, I couldn’t resist covering it for Crafting a Green World! I really want to give this a try with the food containers from the Dekalb Farmers Market. I love their prepared food area but [...]

Check out this awesome video, with vocals by Garrison Keillor. It’s a call for clean diesel engines, but I think the message can apply to pretty much anything.

George Marshall discusses how treating global warming as a strictly environmental issue allows government and industry to treat it as “not my problem.” Video after the jump!

So there are two really cool events coming up in Atlanta this month that I wanted to post about. Both are sustainable-living themed and look like they’re going to be a lot of fun!
Sustainable Living Roadshow – Sept 20-21
The Sustainable Living Roadshow is touring the country in biofuelled vehicles spreading the [...]

Today on the radio I happened to catch a snippet of someone talking about the Slow Food movement, in which they were criticizing the concept as elitist. I hear this an awful lot when people talk about organics, the 100-mile diet, ethically-produced animal products and the slow food movement, and I have to admit that [...]

There was a post on No Impact Man today that made me a little misty-eyed. His pops sent him a picture of the solar panels that he and his mom had installed in the back yard. Their inspiration for this move was Colin’s No Impact project! I love seeing folks inspired by [...]