This youth educational program for high school youth trains environmental advocates/ambassadors to promote environmental protection in NPU-V community. The curriculum covers the following areas: • Place Matters; • Solid Waste; • Brownfields and Remediation; • Non-renewable and Renewable Energy, • Toxic Chemicals and Human Health; • Urban Waters and Toxic Chemicals; • Air Pollution and […]
No one organization can effectively address a large and complex environmental problem alone. A multifaceted environmental problem may take years to totally resolve and may engage hundreds of people, a number of government agencies and multiple non profit stakeholders. One of ECO-Action’s core strategies has been to assemble and coordinate efforts of communities and partner […]
Proctor Creek originates in downtown Atlanta and runs westward to the Chattahoochee River. Before 1927, Proctor Creek carried raw sewage from most of downtown Atlanta directly to the Chattahoochee River. In 1927, a combined sewer system was constructed which installed large combined sewer trunk lines partially above ground in the midst of low-income neighborhoods. Three […]
ECO-Action worked with residents of Southwest Atlanta neighborhoods along with Georgia State University’s Department of Geosciences and Institute of Public Health to local and remove illegally discarded tires through the Tire Initiative to Reduce and Eliminate Dumping (T.I.R.E.D.). The partnership: Removed more than 3,500 illegally dumped tires from Atlanta neighborhoods; Located and mapped of discarded […]
