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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Michelle Obama visited Booker T. Washington High School as part of her “Reach Higher” campaign to increase the number of college graduates. The public high school in Atlanta has more than three times the students living in poverty and hundreds of open seats, writes guest contributor Raymond Pierce. (Bob Andres/AJC 2014)

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Atlanta firefighters, crash on Piedmont Avenue at Monroe Drive

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