By David Pendered
Note to readers: This is the fifth in an emerging series of stories on our Common Future. Click on the Journalism tab, at the right, to read previous stories: Paddle Georgia ’22; Former Savannahian helped curb plastics in national parks; Mike Dobbins on creative housing funding; Okefenokee and the Senate. The new site is almost complete.
June 26 – The Supreme Court may rule Monday on the EPA’s ability to address climate change. Lung care and environmental advocates urge ...more
Note to readers: This weeklong gallery is the result of Georgia River Network's Sarah Taylor's diligence in filing photos of the day's adventures. The photos are in chronological order, other than the lead image that shows activity on the most recent travel day. This site is being renovated.
By David Pendered
A trip over falls on Friday helped mark the conclusion of Paddle Georgia '22, along the Chattahoochee River. Day 6. (Photo courtesy Georgia River Network)
June 25 – All good things must come to an ...more
By David Pendered
The U.S. Department of Interior has ordered a phased ban of single-use plastics in national parks and on federal lands, effective end of 2032. (Photo via Oceana, Credit: Nova Southeastern University, Broward County Sea Conservation Program)
June 18 – A conservation leader formerly based in Savannah performed a significant role in establishing the new federal rule that’s to reduce plastic wastes in national parks and on all federal lands and waters.
Paulita Bennett-Martin helped lobby for the planned reduction in ...more
By Mike Dobbins
Notes to readers:
Mike Dobbins, a Georgia Tech professor of practice and former Atlanta planning commissioner, produced this working paper to evaluate how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill could help address the crisis in affordable housing in metro Atlanta.
This is the second in a periodic series of stories on affairs related to our shared future. The first story is available here: "Okefenonee ruling issued by Biden official who was confirmed 92-5 by Dem, GOP senators." This site is being renovated.
June ...more
By David Pendered
Note to readers: This is the first in a periodic series of stories on affairs related to our shared future. The site is in the process of renovation.
June 4 – The proposed mine near the Okefenokee Swamp was delayed Friday by a Biden administrator who took office with support from interests as diverse as the National Audubon Society and a Republican senator who backs the Dakota Access Pipelines.
A ruling from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued Friday ...more
My Uncle Louie opened his home to me as I looked in Atlanta for my first job after college. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution hired me in 1982 and, over the intervening years, Aunt Helen and Uncle Louie shared the warmth of their home and their depth of knowledge about metro Atlanta, where they had moved in 1956. This is the family's obituary.
Lewis Van Gorder was born in Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, son of Lewis Leonard Van Gorder, and his wife, Cecelia ...more
The Atlanta BeltLine has retained Clyde Higgs as the agency’s new vice president and chief operating officer. Higgs most recently worked in North Carolina as an officer with a public private research facility endowed by California billionaire David Murdock, of Dole Food Co.
Clyde Higgs
“Clyde was the best strategic choice to serve as our next Vice President & Chief Operating Officer,” Paul Morris, the BeltLine’s president and CEO said in a statement released Monday afternoon.
“His extensive experience leading day-to-day operations ...more
After a lot of hard work, the chances have improved significantly that an animal will come out alive from a shelter in Fulton and DeKalb counties – up from 15 animals out of 100 in 2012, to 85 animals out of 100 in 2014, according to the contractor who took over the facilities in 2013.
Princess has hopped into the vehicle and is heading home with her family through an adoption arranged by LifeLine at the Fulton County Animal Shelter. ...more
Prices of homes sold in metro Atlanta rose by 5.4 percent during a 12-month period ending in June, according to the Case-Shiller index released Tuesday. The results help offset values lost in the ongoing stock market plunge.
Pulte Homes is developing Stonehill at Lenox, a community of 3-story townhomes to be priced from the low $500,000s. Credit: pulte.com
Nationally, the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed an increase of 4.5 percent in the 12-month period ending in June. That’s an increase from ...more
As Darron Cooper completed a research paper about Underground Atlanta last year at Georgia Tech, he had no idea the city was on the brink of selling Underground to a developer.
Underground Atlanta has a critical location in the future plans to develop an east-west corridor in downtown Atlanta. Credit: Google Earth, David Pendered
Cooper’s paper views private ownership as a logical step for the revitalization of Underground. Now his report joins those on the Atlanta BeltLine and Atlantic Station for ...more
