Environment
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Digital Debris: How an App Is Changing the Trajectory of Athens’ Litter Abatement
Take a walk around your neighborhood: maybe to the closest busy intersection, maybe on the trail behind your house. What do you see? Likely, litter. Nearly eight billion people inhabit the Earth, so it’s difficult not to become desensitized to the growing presence of chip bags, plastic bottles and cigarette…
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Rain Gardens: How You Can Conserve Water in Your Own Backyard
Water pollution is just one of many environmental concerns affecting the state of Georgia. Harmful chemicals and toxic substances find their way into our lakes, streams, and oceans, jeopardizing the health of ecosystems around the state as well as human health. Even though this seems like a daunting issue, an…
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Sustainable Solution for Green Pollution: How Nonnative Privet Impacts Georgia
Planted in 1929, the iconic hedges that surround Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium are a symbol of the University of Georgia. But these dark green, manicured shrubs aren’t Georgian at all. They’re Chinese privet, a semi-evergreen, thick shrub that swallows forests and threatens native species. Invasive plants are nonnative plants…
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The Trouble With T-Shirts: Fast Fashion, Greek Life and What’s Next
Shannon Marsh, a senior fashion merchandising major, looks down at her drawer stuffed with sorority T-shirts. Since joining Delta Gamma in 2018, she has collected 24 shirts, wearing about eight of them regularly, yet she can’t bring herself to part with them. The rainbow collection of shirts ranges in shades…
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Georgia Renewable Power’s Permit Challenged in Madison County
Gina Ward is a mother, an elementary school special education paraprofessional and a Madison County resident. She’s also the co-chair of the Madison County Clean Power Coalition. Ward is one member working to deter Georgia Renewable Power plant’s permit request. GRP has applied for a permit that would allow the…
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Athens Reuse is Taking Junk, Turning it into Treasure For Teachers — And Now Creatives
The Athens Teacher Reuse Store off of College Avenue is the place to be for local public, private and homeschool educators needing classroom supplies in Clarke, Barrow, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and Oglethorpe counties. Everything is free, and the only form of payment required is a document, like a teacher ID,…
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Jackson County Economy To Benefit From Tech Industry Agreement
Two South Korean tech industry giants came to an agreement over the weekend that could mean huge economic growth for Jackson County. SK Innovation and LG Energy Solution reached a $1.8 billion global settlement of a trade secrets case, allowing construction of the new $2.6 billion electric vehicle battery manufacturing…
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UGA Farmers Market Helps Northeast Georgia Community Improve Food Insecurity
On a Wednesday afternoon from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., you will find many tents and activities on the Zell B. Miller Learning Center South Lawn creating the UGA Farmers Market. Some of the featured produce at the market include tomato plants, carrots, sweet potatoes, kale, turnips, and more. Slowly,…
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Baking Joy: UGA Student Turns Hobby into Business
Hopping on a Zoom call with Noah Ashley the first thing you notice is the long shelf of pots and pans on the wall behind his head, it looks like they are coming out of his ears. Next, you see a tall shelf over his left shoulder full of…
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Climate Change Causing Global Rise in Temperatures, but Northeast Georgia Farmers Aren’t Feeling Effects — Yet
When Chris and Rhonda Luther planted their first blueberry bush in 2007, neither of them had ever grown blueberries before. Now they have more than 1,200 thriving blueberry bushes of eight different varieties in Union Point, Georgia. These bushes provide blueberries for them to make jam, jelly, and juice…