Atlanta
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Getting rid of pollution improves public health a lot faster than you’d think
A new analysis finds that reducing air pollution has near-immediate health benefits.
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Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Florida
It's so huge that tropical storm watches extend as far inland as Atlanta.
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What if Jay-Z ran a healthy corner store?
The founder of Atlanta's The Boxcar Grocer asks: When was the last time a corner store made a healthy lifestyle look fun and accessible to urban audiences?
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High school boys record green rap video
Man, this video really induces high school flashbacks. A group of seniors at Atlanta’s Marist School created it as part of the Green School Alliance’s Green Cup Challenge. These fine, upstanding young fellas won the video part of the challenge by adapting Outkast’s So Fresh, So Clean to a greener message. The part where they […]
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The Atlanta BeltLine: The country’s most ambitious smart growth project
The Atlanta BeltLine shows some progress and much remaining potential.
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Transportation and social justice: The sentence is in on the Raquel Nelson case
Could the case of a mother convicted of vehicular homicide for crossing the street with her son be a turning point for the rights of pedestrians and transit users?
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Pedestrians and transit riders come last [VIDEO]
More people living in the suburbs are poor and without cars. But autocentric street design means you risk your life getting around any other way.
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When design kills: The criminalization of walking
A child is struck by a driver and killed when crossing the street on foot with his mother -- and she is the one who is charged with vehicular homicide. Why is normal, instinctive pedestrian activity criminalized?
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Maybe selling off government-owned fossil-fuel infrastructure isn’t such a bad idea
Might a little bit of the free market be just what we need to get Americans paying something closer to the true cost of driving?Photo: Marius WatzEveryone knows about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s unhinged attack on his state’s unions, but did you know that he’s also pushing for the right to “sell any state-owned heating, […]