By Ellen Bruenderman, Director of Community Building and Kayla Altland, Friends of the Park Program Manager Invasive plants are a serious problem in our local parks and are top of mind […]

By Marlena Reed, communications & marketing manager, The Nature Conservancy in Georgia The critical link between healthy forests and beer may not be obvious to most people, but it comes down […]

By Jay Wozniak, Georgia Parks Director for The Trust for Public Land  One hundred million Americans cannot walk from their home to a park within 10 minutes. According to The Trust […]

Georgia’s marine mammal, The North Atlantic Right Whale, numbers only 400. By Brian Foster, Communications Director, The Georgia Conservancy With an estimated global population of only 400, the North Atlantic right whale […]

By Rachel Maher, Park Pride For 30 years, Park Pride has engaged communities to activate the power of parks. Thirty years.  The organization was founded in 1989, the year that Seinfeld premiered.  Park […]

By John D’Andrea, Senior Vice President, External Affairs, Georgia Power Our lands and waters are more than just our country’s beautiful natural features. They are the very foundation of our security, […]

By Judy Yi, Director of Outreach, Trees Atlanta Since early 2018, the City of Atlanta’s tree protection ordinance has been under review for a rewrite by the Department of City Planning […]

By Michael Halicki, Executive Director of Park Pride To state that you value the positive relationship between access to nature and health is not, on its surface, a controversial statement. However, […]

By George Dusenbury, The Trust for Public Land in Georgia Sarah Kirsch, Urban Land Institute, Atlanta District Council New analysis from The Trust for Public Land shows that opening schoolyards to […]