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Emerging Green Builders Atlanta and Athens in coordination with the Medici Center are proud to sponsor a presentation on Ponce Park – the largest adaptive reuse project in the US to date. Please join us to learn more about Ponce Park and the Emerging Green Builders.

Date: Teusday, September 29, 2009
Time: 6:30 PM
Where: The Medici Center, Ponce Park
Contact: Patrick Hand – egbatlanta@gmail.com
EGB Atlanta

Ride sharing from Athens…

Need a ride? Email egb@athensegb.org to let us know you need a ride or can help provide wheels as soon as possible. We’re going to gather at the Kroger parking lot on 316 (near the home depot) at the loop. We leave sharply at 5pm, so please be there by 4:30 to make sure you have a ride.

Light refreshments served.

Thanks to our gracious hosts:
The Medici Center
675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE
Atlanta, Ga 30308

Parking is available in the deck at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Glen Iris Drive. Enter from Ponce de Leon. You will see a pair of doors to your immediate left as you enter. That is the entrance to The Medici Center office.

Alfie Vick passed this along to the EGBAthens List about “Athens Green Drinks”. Thanks Alfie. Incidentally, the Royal Peasant is a relatively new establishment in the Athens Five Points Area. Let’s welcome them to Athens by showing up.

Athens Green Drinks first monthly gathering
Tuesday June 30 – 6pm to 8pm
at the Royal Peasant Pub in Five Points

Map: http://tinyurl.com/njxdya

It’s an informal mixer, open to all those interested in green building, transportation and sustainability issues in Athens-Clarke and neighboring counties.

All Are Welcome

Anyone living, studying or working in the Athens-Clarke area or surrounding counties, especially those interested in sustainable building, transportation and environmental issues, including builders, environmental professionals, engineers, architects, real estate agents & brokers, local government, students, educators and university faculty and staff.

The Purpose

Athens Green Drinks offers area residents and members of the professional community regular, informal opportunities to meet and connect.

Sign Up for Future Notifications – This is a One-Time Emailing

If you would like to receive monthly email notices about each upcoming Athens Green Drinks meeting, visit

http://athensgreendrinks.org/notify

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Like the idea, but can’t attend?

Offer your input by answering 7 easy questions on the June 30 Survey: http://tinyurl.com/kvka3u

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AthensGreenDrinks.org
P.O. Box 49004
Athens, GA 30604-9004

If you haven’t already, go to the College Avenue Parking Deck top floor down town to check out ‘Park a Park’.  Professor Didi Dunphy and her class of 15 students have put together a park in the space of one car lot at the top of the parking deck. The project is part of Professor Dunphy’s Art X Hyper Media Class. This class brings art into unexpected places using methods not bound by regular media as forms of artistic expression. The idea is to shake up people’s interpretation of what art can be by using people, nature and structure as forms of social expression.

In coordination with and through the auspices of Athens Clark County Leisure Services, the park began its existence at 11 am this morning and will cease to exist at 5:30 pm this afternoon. They have italian ice popsicles, colas, and pb&j’s on a first-come-first-served basis. You can scribble art in the chalk graffiti square, play board games, or just relax in the park on one of two benches or on the astro-turf.

Be sure to take time between classes to visit this unique and ephemeral built space.

We’re tabling for the Earthday event right now on Tate Plaza. Come by and visit us. We should be around until 3pm.

UGA is one step GREENER!!!

With the success of The Green Initiative Fee, an informational meeting to discuss UGA and Athens Going Green will be held at 6:30 pm on Wed., April 22 in Rm 147 in the Miller Learning Center. The event is open to students, faculty and other members of the UGA community to learn more about conservation and recycling to help the planet. The meeting is expected to last 90 minutes.

The forum, which will continue with Earth Day’s theme of “It’s So Easy Being Green,” will highlight how simple it is to help the environment. The event will feature suggestions and solutions, as well as ways to become more involved.

There will be 6 panelists speaking on various GREEN issues around campus and Athens.  The panelists are:

• Andrew Lentini – UGA’s Recycling Coordinator
• Dr. Laurie Fowler – Director of Public Services and Special Programs at the Odum School
• Suki Jansen – Athens-Clarke County Waste Reduction Administrator
• Nancy Lindbloom - co-chair of Greenfest
• Mayor Heidi Davidson – Mayor of Athens-Clarke County
• Dick Field - Athens-Clarke County Environmental Coordinator

Audience members will be invited to ask questions and participate in discussion. Following the formal portion of the event, audience members will have the opportunity to personally interact and discuss issues with the panelists and each other.

The event is hosted by Dr. Lynn Sallot’s Public Relations Campaign class and is a part of the National Conversation of Climate Action.

(Thanks to Monica Padman for posting this email from Jill Martin about this event)