Lin Edwards writes in physorg.com about Parking lots could become ‘solar groves’ (w/ Video):
Architect Robert Noble, who specializes in sustainable design has come up with the idea of turning parking lots into “solar groves” that shade the vehicles, generate electricity, and serve as recharging stations for electric vehicles.Or forget Atlanta. Hahira or Valdosta could do this just as easily.
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Every Saturday morning
in June and July, there’s
a farmers’ market in Hahira on West Main Street,
near the caboose.
Here Andrew Young tells us about it, Saturday morning, July 10th:
This last Saturday,
Tom Kuettner was there, selling goat products.
Gwen Jones
had
squash, tomatoes, okra, watermelons (red and yellow), corn, peas, anything that grows.
Paula Harrigan had free range eggs.
Dana Peters had watermelons and vine-ripened tomatoes.
Gretchen and John Quarterman had pumpkins, pumpkin bread, pumpkin muffins, zucchini bread, pumpkin butter, okra pickles, strawberry jam, sweet corn, and watermelon.
Here’s a playlist for all the movies. There are more pictures in the flickr set.
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This time we picked the day before, and got to the market by 8AM. Gretchen moved quite a bit of sweet corn and okra, and some squash, pickles, and jam. Our most unusual items were the pumpkins. Continue reading
Tom Kuettner and his goat products. Continue reading
Previously, the Valdosta City Council appointed City Council member
Robert Yost to the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Parks & Recreation Authority (VLPRA).
The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners debated appointing a Commissioner
to the VLPRA at their June 8 meeting:
They decided to appoint their chairman, Ashley Paulk, to the VLPRA. Chairman Paulk said he would serve, but as a private citizen. I wonder then what the point was of appointing him, rather than someone else.
When Valdosta appointed Yost, Ashley Paulk provided this statement to the VDT: Continue reading
In the regular meeting, Hahira City Council, June 3,
Mr. Benjamin speaks up in Citizens Wishing to be Heard:
As you can see by the pan around the room, the meeting was pretty well attended. The average local government session around here gets maybe a couple of people who aren’t elected or staff. This one had probably half a dozen.
Each Council member, Ralph Clendenin (District 3), Allen Cain (District 2), Terry Benjamin (District 1), and Rose Adams (District 4), made a statment, followed by Jonathan Sumner (City Manager) and Wayne Bullard (Mayor).
Here’s a playlist. Videos by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE.
Hahira Elected Officials and Staff. Minutes of previous meetings and future schedule.
Jade Bulecza reports for WALB that
Teachers take outdoor learning to the classroomTeachers take outdoor learning to the classroom:
About 25 teachers from Lowndes County schools were out at the Pine Grove Farm in Thursday identifying trees and looking at leaves.Maybe later they could even take the students out to the trees!It’s part of project learning tree, an environmental education program.
Renee Galloway says students don’t really get out of the classroom in language arts and reading, so she’s glad she’ll have new lessons to bring to her class.
“Hopefully, our teachers can take back the importance of the timber industry to Georgia’s economy to their classrooms,” said Joy Cowart, a Project Learning Tree facilitator.That’s one good lesson. Others might be the diversity of native forests and the economic and natural benefits of reforestation.
Here’s another view: Continue reading
Coming: Continue reading
Where’s all this change coming from and going to?
The dark green is labeled “Evergreen Forest” and decreased from 31.81% in 1991 to 26.47% in 2005. Meanwhile, the light pink labeled “Low Intensity Urban” went from 5.37% to 8.57%. Other changes include the red “High Intensity Urban” slice going from 1.15% to 1.98%. But the biggest change is piney woods being paved over for urban sprawl.
Could this have some effect on flooding?
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John S. Quarterman