Pennies From Heaven

Free Water!!!
Residential water use increases 40 to 50% during summer months due to outdoor water use. Storm-water runoff is the leading type of residential non-point source pollution.

What is a rain barrel?

A rain barrel collects and stores rainwater from rooftops to use later for lawn and garden watering minimizing the negative effects storm-water run-off.

Water collected in a rain barrel is what would normally pour off your roof directly or flow through roof gutter downspouts and become storm-water runoff. Collecting water in a rain barrel can conserve this water for other uses.

Why waste a gift? Water, precious water costs you every month. Instead of looking a gift-horse in the mouth, take advantage of these pennies from heaving and start saving dollars.

Don't let your free water become stormwater runoff. Just think about it, if it were dollars falling

Depending on your yard, this runoff can travel onto paved surfaces and eventually into a storm drain.

Case for Bike Paths

My 87 year-old mother is getting an adult tricycle for her birthday courtesy of her granddaughter who lives in Southern Calif. where apparently they have bike paths for their citizens to travel while picking up dry cleaning and groceries. Atlanta - more bike paths please.

Keep the Golf Course

Golf Course - The Commons at Fort McPherson is the new combined community and Golfer's Club. Fort McPherson's golf course is one of the finest and most challenging 18-hole, 72-par courses in the Army. I'd like to see this stay.

Paths, Trees, Jogging and Bike Trails are Vital to the Community

Here's something one of my neighbors wrote today in a discussion we had surrounding increased sightings of wildlife in the area. "my father used to see a bear cub in our yard. That was before they built the police Station and removed all the woods next to it. My point is that we have these other residents in our neighborhood and they will be displaced just like us, when they keep full clearing lots to build more ugly boxes to pack more people into them. They are here now because their territory has been removed and we still have a few stands of trees"

When I first move to Atlanta 19 years ago, much of Southwest Atlanta and South Fulton was still forested. The deforestation of the area is not only dangerous for wildlife, it's detrimental to humans. Let's stop this practice of killing the land and build communities that are in harmony with the natural topography.

TREXA announces pricing details for DIY electric car

When we first looked at TREXA's open-source electric vehicle development platform late last month we were impressed by the concept, but one big question remained - how much will it cost? The answer has come sooner than expected with TREXA announcing a base price of US$15,999 for the lithium-powered, modular platform which is designed to facilitate the creation of custom "vehicle apps". Read More - source Gizmag
http://www.gizmag.com/trexa-electric-vehicle-pricing/14119/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=b2900f6e53-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email

A Great Opportunity for an Event Space

The Clubhouse at the Fort Mac golf course will be closed soon with the exodus of the DOD. With the lack of such facilities in the SW Atlanta area, this would make an excellent event space in the interim..... Your thoughts?