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Green Day Successes
Nearly 500 adults and 50 children celebrated Earth Day by participating in Green Day, an all volunteer morning sponsored by Earth Share of Georgia. By noon on April 26 volunteers had restored two baseball fields to playable condition, cleared a hillside of overgrowth for future hiking trails, mulched and pruned a few hundred trees and beautified almost 10 acres of parks in the Atlanta metro area! All projects were coordinated by Earth Share member groups Park Pride and Trees Atlanta, as well as the cities of Atlanta and Decatur. Volunteer teams were organized by partnering companies including Hewlett-Packard, Kinko's, Starbucks, Miller Zell, Worldspan, Turner Broadcasting System, Timberland, Bank of America and BellSouth Long Distance. After, volunteers attended a 'thank you' party hosted by Borders in midtown with food provided by Whole Foods Market. [back to top]
Member Profile: Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest
Ask any Georgia environmental group working to prevent toxic pollution and prompt government action who's got their back and they'll tell you the Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest. The Georgia Center was founded on the principle that no one group can go it alone. Guided by this, they have committed themselves to providing free legal assistance to some of Georgia's leading evironmental organizations, including Earth Share's own Sierra Club and Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. Just last year while challenging the construction permits for two power plants, the Georgia Center argued to reduce the permitted levels of nitrogen oxide emissions by 241 tons per year, a reduction greater than if every vehicle were removed from the streets of the 13 county metro-Atlanta area for one day a year. Past achievements with the center's Clean Air Project have red!
uced emissions to the equivalent of taking all vehicles off the road for five days a year! Other programs at the center are focusing on Georgia's waterways, agriculture and ecological biodiversity. To read more go to www.cleangeorgia.org. [back to top]
Earth Share Partner, Kaiser Permanente, Wins Environmental Achievement Award
Our congratulations go out to Kaiser Permanente who recently received the Partner Recognition Award from Hospitals for a Healthy Environment for their leadership in waste minimization and pollution prevention. The program is sponsored by the American Hospital Association, the Environmental Protection Agency, American Nurses Association and Health Care Without Harm and is designed to improve the environmental performance of the health care field. For more information on the program, go to www.h2e-online.org [back to top]
Smog Alert! Smog Season Begins May 1st
Get your face masks! It's time to gear up for smog season in metro-Atlanta. Last year there were 38 Smog Alert days issued by the Clean Air Campaign. Already there was one day in April where ground level ozone reached unhealthy levels. It's no wonder when you consider metro Atlantans are driving 120.7 million miles every day! Governor Sonny Perdue has proclaimed the week of April 27 through May 3, 2003 as Air Quality week in Georgia. Now's the perfect time to carpool, telecommute, use public transportation or stretch those legs. Do your part to make a difference. Visit www.cleanaircampaign.com for more information on transportation alternatives as well as daily traffic and smog reports. [back to top]
Special Thanks
Earth Share of Georgia would like to recognize the creative design and production team at Miller Zell for lending us their time, expertise and materials to create the signage and displays seen at last month's Earth Day events. For two years Miller Zell, a retail design agency, has supported Earth Share through employee giving and we are proud to expand on this partnership with their support of Earth Day 2003. For more info visit www.millerzell.com. [back to top]
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