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Task Force Shelter Producing Pounds of Veggies on Rooftop Garden

May 17, 2015 GLORIA TATUM 5 comments

(APN) ATLANTA — The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless has made good on its plan to help feed the homeless people it serves through an organic rooftop garden, involving bees and a rainwater collection system. The garden is so successful, an expansion is planned. Residents at the shelter, located in downtown Atlanta’s Peachtree and Pine Streets, will […]

Atlanta Proposes Charging for Collected Rainwater

June 28, 2011 CHERYL ROSENBLUM Leave a comment

(APN) ATLANTA — A currently proposed City of Atlanta ordinance would begin to charge residents who use rainwater catchment systems, raising concern among some Atlanta citizens who see the ordinance as taxing the water which falls from the sky. Ordinance #11-O-0740, Potable Rainwater Ordinance for Residential Use, was sent from Mayor Kasim Reed’s office to the City Utilities Committee in […]