Southface Institute: Blog

Meet a Southfacer (Again): Jenna Grygier

About Us

Back in 2014, when she was a project manager on the Residential team, Jenna Grygier was kind enough to tell us a little about her interests. Today, we revisited Jenna after her life-changing experience on a full through-hike of the Appalachian Trail. You can find her first ‘Meet a Southfacer’ on the journal here. What was your former position at Southface and your duties? I’m thankful to have worn many hats at Southface since 2013, when I started as an …

Tags: Staff

Fulcrum Follow Up: Metro Water District

Policy

In March of 2016 at the Greenprints Conference, Southface debuted the Fulcrum Awards. As we approach the second annual Fulcrum Awards, we checked in with inaugural winners.

Tags: Water Conservation

Fulcrum Follow-up: Iberville Offsites

Green Building

In March of 2016 at the Greenprints Conference, Southface debuted the Fulcrum Awards. As we approach the second annual Fulcrum Awards, we checked in with inaugural winners.

Tags: Affordable Housing

Big Ladder Workshops Come to Southface

Education

Learn from a team of energy modelers and programmers with many years of experience providing support, training, and software tools for EnergyPlus. Register for the Big Ladder Software workshop series to learn the energy modeling software.

Tags:

Proof is Possible Tour Rolls into Atlanta

Green Building

TinyLab is the high performing tiny house on wheels you haven’t seen in person until now, and the Lunsfords are bringing it to Atlanta January 21-28!

Tags: Tiny House

Shan Arora Wins 2016 Solar Advocate Award

About Us

The Georgia Solar Energy Association awarded its 2016 Solar Advocate Award to Shan Arora, program manager for Southface, at its annual holiday celebration on Thursday, December 15.

Tags: Staff

Visit the Rodale Organic Life House

Green Building

Announcing the newest EarthCraft addition to the Serenbe community: the Rodale Organic Life House, located in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia.

Tags: EarthCraft

2016 – A Bright Year for Solar in Georgia

Renewable Energy

When Southface started building a database to track Georgia’s installed solar capacity in 2012, we were hunting for kilowatts (kWs). Four years later, GeorgiaEnergyData.org shows that we have more than 1,100 MW of installed solar capacity.

Tags: Solar

Southface Celebrates Winter Solstice 2016

Events

Last week at the annual Southface Winter Solstice Celebration, Southface staff, members and friends celebrated a successful year and honored key contributors to the organization’s mission, including outgoing co-founder and executive director Dennis Creech.

Tags: Solstice