chattahoochee river

Everyone should live within 10 minutes of a public park. Why? Because public green space improves overall health, strengthens community ties, combats climate change, and - when implemented correctly - reduces inequality. Our guest today is George Dusenbury, Vice President Southern Region and the Georgia State Director at the Trust for Public Land, an organization whose mission is to expand access to the outdoors by creating public parks and protecting public lands. In this episode, we explore exciting TPL initiatives like green schoolyards in New York City and the exciting Chattahoochee RiverLands Project that promises to transform the Atlanta metro area and beyond. We also discuss greenspace as essential infrastructure, the importance of local input,, and the resources available for anyone who wants to expand access to nature in their own communities. 

Show Notes

• Trust For Public Land
• About George Dusenbury 
• Chattahoochee RiverLands Project
• The Land & People Lab
• Policy & Legislation
• Resource Library
• SCAPE Studio 

Key Words: Trust For Public Land, Public Parks, Parks & Recreation, Green Space, Climate, Climate Change, Chattahoochee River, Chattahoochee RiverLands Project, Biophilia, Biophilic Design, Nature, Outdoors, Nature Based Solutions 

Georgia's Lake Lanier is one of the deadliest in the U.S., and while some claim the high death rate is due to the large number of visitors each year, Mark and Lisa ponder if Lanier's shady history could be the cause of so many deaths.

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Welcome to Lake Lanier, Georgia! https://lakelanier.com/welcome/

CNN: Lake Lanier: A Lake's Dark and Deadly History Has Some People Seeing Ghosts  https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/us/lake-lanier-urban-legends-trnd/index.html

Southern Gothic: The Curse of Lake Lanier https://www.southerngothicmedia.com/lake-lanier

Travel Noir: Is Lake Lanier Haunted? The Eerie History of The Georgia Lake Built Over an Entire Town  https://travelnoire.com/georgia-lake-lanier-haunted-twitter-chimes-in

Oxford American: The Haunting of Lake Lanier by Anjai Enjeti  https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-113-summer-2021/the-haunting-of-lake-lanier#:~:text=Legend%20has%20it%20Lake%20Lanier,bodies%20were%20never%20successfully%20recovered.

Georgia Exhibits: Race and Reckoning in Forsyth County https://georgia-exhibits.galileo.usg.edu/spotlight/forsyth-race-relations/feature/the-lynchings

11 Alive: Whitewashed: The Racial Cleansing of Forsyth County
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