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We do not inherit the land from our ancestors.
We borrow it from our children.
Blue Ridge Area Environmental Action is committed to providing environmentally related community education to the residents, businesses, and visitors of North Georgia's Blue Ridge mountains and to promoting sustainability. Our goal is to get the communities, residents, and visitors of this area involved in local legislation, planning, community outreach, projects, and alerts. We want to work with city and county leaders to help make our communities a place where residents, businesses, visitors and wildlife beneficially coexist.
To view the speech given at the June 8th Blue Ridge, Georgia city hall meeting click HERE
Next BRAEA meeting: Our next meeting will be on Thursday September 2 at 6 PM the Blue Ridge Brewery. We did think about moving our meeting to a location that was not so weather dependent, however, everyone we spoke to wanted to keep it at the Brewery! So, we'll keep it there. The rain date for the September 2nd meeting will be on Thursday September 9th.
First BRAEA Meeting Hey everyone! We were finally able to set up our first Blue Ridge Area Environmental Action meeting! Twenty-five amazing people attended and all shared concerns, experiences and great ideas. The group is off to a great start and we will be emailing the minutes of the meeting out to everyone who is on the mailing list. A big thank you to Blue Ridge Brewery for offering up their patio space for us (thank you Pat and Polina!). It was great that we could hold our meeting in a place where we can help support one of our local restaurants with some business.
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If you have an article or information you would like to have share please contact braea.org so we can add it to the web site. Thank you! We need YOU!
To view pictures of BRAEA's booth at the 2009 Wildlife Festival in Blue Ridge, Georgia look HERE!
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Recycling in Blue Ridge BRAEA is pushing for city wide recycling. NOW is the time to contact your city commissioners and voice your opinion on a recycling initiative. Below you will find email addresses for the mayor and commissioners of Blue Ridge. To view the letter Brittany Newberry wrote to the mayor and city commissioners concerning recycling here in Blue Ridge click HERE.
Donna Whitener - Mayor - donna@cityofblueridgega.gov Wayne Huffman - Office Commissioner - waynehuffman@cityofblueridgega.gov Rhonda Thomas - Streets Commissioner - rhonda@cityofblueridgega.gov Harold Herndon - Police Commissioner - haroldherndon@cityofblueridgega.gov Rodney Kendall - Water & Sewer Commissioner - rodneykendall@cityofblueridgega.gov Michael Eaton - Parks Commissioner - michaeleaton@cityofblueridgega.gov
Feed Fannin ReLeah Lent, guest columnist for the News Observer, summarized it best. “Feed Fannin, a group of individuals and organizations, came together to address the growing problem of hunger in Fannin County. While our primary goal was to help others help themselves through initiatives such as community gardening and sharing resources, our underlying aspiration was to tap into the unity that has long been a part of this small town, a reliance on each other that is missing in so many larger communities.”
For more information about Feed Fannin visit feedfannin.com or come to one of the 10:00am Tuesday morning meetings at the Family Connection Center on Ada street!
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