See press release here.

Stay tuned for more great sustainability stories from companies right here in Dunwoody, and please contact me if you have a local green biz story you think I should investigate.

When you "buy local", you keep $45 circulating in the local economy, as opposed to $13 when you buy at a national chain. "Buy Local" this holiday season and keep your dollars close to home, right here in our local economy. (Local businesses tend to use other local businesses for supplies and services, so there is a large multiplier effect when citizens patronize local businesses.)

I'm trying to make it easier for you to do that. I sent the following email to Joan Shumaker about a month ago and… Continue

Q3 Update.xls
Click here. These quarterly reports will now be in the ARC checklist format so you can see exactly how points are stacking up. Scroll ahead to the totals per category and overall at the end, if you want the quick bottom line. (We haven't quite nailed those 5 education points yet, but we will shortly.)

Stay tuned--the 2010 strategic plan will be up by December 1. By January 1, I hop… Continue

Congratulations to Roswell, GA - the first city in GA to legislate complete streets

See their policy at: http://bit.ly/CDNwq (pdf)

Let’s be the SECOND city in the state to do so, shall we???

See here. Yikes.

Dear Dunwoody Homeowners Association, City Council, Mayor, Community Council and Planning Commission:

As you know, I am heavily involved in the local food movement. The increased availability of local food improves health, environmental education, economic sustainability, and food security. Pet chicken-keeping is an easy way for a family to achieve these objectives. Friends of your friends most likely have chickens right now in Dunwoody. If you don’t know about them, it is a testament to how un… Continue

Dunwoody Community Garden at Brook Run

Potluck Picnic

Date: Sunday, November 8th
Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm

We invite members and friends to bring…

a potluck dish to share,
your own picnic-ware & blanket,
your own drinks (sorry, no alcohol in the park), and
a bag for non-compostable waste.

Enjoy lunch with good company under a canopy of red and yellow
autumn leaves. Bring a Frisbee, a ball, or your favorite board game.

Kid Craft: Meet in the outdoor classroom (next to the pavilion) at 12:30… Continue

Dennis Lange of 5 Seasons Restaurant and Brewery in Sandy Springs (right inside 285 on Roswell Road at The Prado) has offered to show us how he makes beer THIS SUNDAY at 3:30 at the brewery/restaurant. He has room for 20 people (over age 21 please), so please email me at freshbakedcopy@mindspring.com to reserve your spot. We are curious to see how th… Continue

Great article in NY Times about the growing popularity of Zero Waste Zones (thanks for forwarding it, Amie), including a prominent mention of the Atlanta restaurant, Ecco (a Dunwoody resident is a partner there, by the way).

FYI, the Dunwoody Community Garden at Brook Run is a Zero-Waste Zone. Not only does this mean that we ask that you take any non-compostable waste with you when you l… Continue

This short video shows the kind of outside-the-box thinking that can change the world. Period. You simply can't watch this and not want to do this yourself. I'm already thinking about how I would recruit several friends and we would figure out how to play Ode to Joy. And, of course, this evokes that famous scene from the FAO Schwarz toystore from the movie Big, with Tom Hanks. Watch the video and you'll see what I mean.

As I've said at several different sustainability meeting… Continue