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Atlanta Forward: Leadership

By Rick Badie
July 22, 2015

Atlanta’s going green. The concept of energy-efficient buildings and sustainability measures has taken hold across the city. The writer of today’s lead column cites the Atlanta market as a leader in the green real estate movement, but suggests more should be done to bring small and medium-sized businesses into the mix. The second column explains sustainability efforts at Emory University that resulted in BestColleges.com naming it the eighth “greenest university” in the country.

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