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Walk Downtown and Be Rewarded

Saturday, September 5, 2009 at 04:09PM

Next month, yes next month is October, you can earn some bucks by walking if you live and/or work downtown. They are putting on the Downtown Atlanta Walk there Challenge. More info from the Downtown TMA Newsletter:

Walk There Challenge in October

If you’re going to walk, then why not be rewarded for it? During the month of October, the Downtown Transportation Management Association (TMA) will present the Walk There Challenge, a FREE program designed to encourage Downtown workers to lace up their shoes and hit the streets to improve their health, help clean up the air and reduce traffic.

Each day participants will log the number of steps they take during the month of October. The Downtown TMA will provide a free pedometer and “walking kit” to the first 1,500 individuals. Then each week a random winner will be selected to receive Downtown-themed prizes and the Downtown stepper with the most steps logged at the end of October gets a grand prize: a night on the town (Downtown, that is!). The grand prize winner will also receive a gift basket of tickets, gift certificates and more. For more information and to sign up go to www.AtlantaDowntown.com.

Michael D Hadden |

The Congress of The New Urbanism Heads to Atlanta for its 2010 Meeting

Sunday, July 26, 2009 at 12:25AM

The 18th annual Congress for The New Urbanism will be held May 19th - 22nd in Atlanta. It's great to play host to such a forward thinking roundtable. The theme of this year's congress is Prescription for Healthy Places. There will obviously be a big discussion about how neighborhood design impacts health and overall happiness. Surprisingly, Atlanta has come a long way since the 90's and we now have some great mixed use if not completly new urbanist neighborhoods. Some of the best examples are Atlantic Station, Glenwood Park, Smyrna Village Green and Serenbe. Take a quick look at the video and find out a little more about the CNU.

Michael D Hadden |

City Sustainability Rankings from SustainLane

Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 10:50PM

It's very useful to compare yourself against others to determine where you need to improve. Knowing where our city stands on a number of sustainability and environmental issues would be very useful. SustainLane does just that for the top 50 metro areas in the U.S. They rank cities based on 16 environmental criteria and then assign an overall ranking. Atlanta was the most improved city from 2007 to 2008 moving up from number 38 to number 19. That's a nice move. Our bright spots on the report are Green Building, where we are #3 overall, Transit Ridership and Local Food. Our low spots are congestion, air quality and planning/land use.

Check out the chart to see how Atlanta ranked on all of the criteria.

Source: SustainLane.com

Michael D Hadden |