Full Circle Real Estate Group: Athens Real Estate, Sustainable Real Estate

In honor of Earth Day, you can volunteer Saturday for a Green Day of Service to help Greenfest create gardens at various local schools and community sites. They are hosting this event as part of an effort to support the mission of educating and involving the Athens-Clarke County community and UGA Community in improving our lives and environment.  Projects will focus on community and school gardens. Participation in projects range from building raised garden beds to starting a composting program.
Volunteers of all ages are welcome!  Those volunteers between the ages of 5-25 can also dedicate hours toward Global Youth Service Day.  To register as a volunteer please click HERE.

Rally for a Better Athens will be held Saturday, March 3rd, at 3pm at City Hall and is sponsored by PeopleForABetterAthens.Org. If you are looking for a great comphrensive website with everything you want to know regarding the development of the A & D parcel, check out ProtectDowntownAthens.com. You'll find great info on what you can do now to get involved. They also just updated the FAQ section with important information re: Walmart. Educate yourselves!

Full Circle Agent Katie Throne's photographs, currently on display at Ted's Most Best, will be featured during Saturday's Pulaski Street Art Crawl.

The Georgia Sculptors’ Society is hosting The Inaugural Pulaski Street Art Crawl on Saturday, October 8, 2011 from 5:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M. Pulaski Street artists and businesses are opening their venues to the public to showcase Athens artists. The Pulaski Street Art Crawl will start at ARTini’s Art Lounge, culminating at Pints and Paints featuring the Georgia Sculptors’ Society’s Juried Art Exhibition. The Pulaski Street Art Crawl is an opportunity for Athens artists, business owners, and patrons to come together and engage in cultural discourse while boosting Athens' respective businesses and art community. Food for the juried show will be provided by Last Resort Grill and The Grit! Admission is free and open to the public.

Click HERE for more info!

Come down to the Athica Gallery at the Chase Street Warehouses this Friday from 6pm to 8pm for the Opening Reception for Bold & Subtle, a group exhibition with works by Georgia artists Lillie Morris, Lucy Weigle, Jackson Cheatham and Lanny Webb.

For more info, contact Lillie Morris at 706-267-5416.

While reading the depressing daily reports on the worst oil spill in our nation's history, I found a heartwarming story about a young New York artist inspired by John James Audubon to help save the Gulf birds.

Olivia Bouler, 11, has already helped to raise more than $70,000 to protect whooping cranes and other birds who are threatened by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A budding orinthologist who already knows she wants to study at Cornell University, Olivia was shaken by the growing disaster and wanted to do something. So she wrote a letter to the National Audubon Society and told them she had one skill to offer: drawing. “Eleven years old and willing to help,” she wrote.

Olivia is drawing birds and sending one rendering to every person who donates to oil relief efforts through the society. Learning of her effort, AOL donated $25,000 in her name to the Audubon Society and offered to host her portfolio at a site it maintains for artists. Cont...

Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.

Looking for ways to make an impact? Click HERE for a few ideas and check The Flagpole for local activities, including the New Earth Day Festival.

As you go about your day, take this quote with you from the great Dr. Seuss:

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not. - The Lorax

I recently read a story updating progress on Atlanta's Beltline, an ambitious project and the largest, most wide-ranging urban redevelopment currently underway in the United States. The Beltline will combine greenspace, trails, transit and new development along 22 miles of historic rail segments that encircle the urban core. Learning more about this great example of smart growth in our neighboring city is worth the time. Click HERE for Beltline info and read a great blog with videos on why the Beltline is the country's best smart growth story HERE.

Kermit the Frog is coming to Athens for this year’s Earth Day celebration to spread the word, “It’s SO Easy Being Green!” The 2009 Earth Day will be hosted by the Go Green Alliance and Physical Plant Division and will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Tate Plaza on Wednesday, April 22nd.

The event will include live music, free food and giveaways and live animals. Display booths with various fun and educational activities will be hosted by many of UGA’s departments and student clubs, as well as participation from various local businesses. Mayor Heidi Davison will also be in attendance.

The goal of this year’s celebration is not only to appreciate the Earth, but to try and teach UGA students how they can do their part to sustain our planet’s health and resources. With the theme, “It’s SO Easy Being Green,” the Go Green Alliance and Physical Plant Division hope to bring not only fun, but education to the day by showing students easy ways to live green. So come on out to Tate and join in the celebration!

For more information on Earth Day 2009 or the Go Green Alliance, please visit the organization’s Web site, www.gogreen.uga.edu. Or check out our blog, www.ugagogreen.tumblr.com.

Athens Technical College will host a "4Ever Green@ATC" Earth Day expo from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday with more than 30 exhibitors and vendors, tours of the Athens-Clarke Recycling Center and film screenings.

The expo will be held in the Athens Tech Student Center, while environmental awareness films will be shown in the college auditorium. The event will feature door prizes and panel discussions.

Exhibitors are scheduled to include Athens-Clarke Public Utilities and Stormwater, Athens Transit, Keep America Beautiful and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. Source: Athens Banner-Herald

THIS IS THE WORLD’S FIRST GLOBAL ELECTION, BETWEEN EARTH AND GLOBAL WARMING.