Shan Arora earns place on Georgia Trend's 2014 40 Under 40 List About Us Southface Staff | October 3, 2014 Southface Policy Programs Manager Shan Arora earned a spot on Georgia Trend’s 2014 40 Under 40 List for his dedication to making cities more livable and efficient. Read More Tags: Solar, Staff
Atlanta Mayor Reed Wins the 2014 Argon Award for Leadership in Sustainability Events Southface Staff | October 2, 2014 The Honorable Mayor Kasim Reed is the recipient of the 2014 Argon Award for leadership in sustainability for his efforts to bring Atlanta to the forefront of the national sustainability conversation. Read More Tags: Visionary Dinner
(Energy-efficient) Lights, Camera, Action! A lighting renovation at Atlanta’s historic Fox Theatre Green Building Southface Staff | September 24, 2014 A major lighting renovation is underway at Atlanta’s historic Fox Theatre. The renovation involves replacing 5,500 incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs. When complete, the project is projected to reduce the electricity used by the upgraded bulbs by 80 percent, which will save the Fox over $14,000 annually. Read More Tags: Better Buildings Challenge, Energy Efficiency
Pint Dreams Events Southface Staff | September 18, 2014 Southface’s Amber McFarland interviews Stephen Corradini about the relationship between Visionary Dinner Legacy Partner Whole Foods Market and Visionary Dinner Chef Keith Schroeder of High Road Craft Ice Cream. Read More Tags: Food, Visionary Dinner
The Atlanta BeltLine: Then and Now Communities Southface Staff | September 3, 2014 The Atlanta BeltLine is well underway, and in some neighborhoods, particularly those along the Eastside Trail, it has transformed local perspectives on alternative transportation. Read More Tags: Atlanta Beltline, Transit, Urbanism
Validating the Impact of Green Affordable Housing Green Building Alex Trachtenberg | August 29, 2014 “The most affordable home is one that is affordable to live in and operate.” These are words we’ve lived by for years at Southface, and finally, we’re working to put statistics behind the anecdotes. Validating the Impact of Green Affordable Housing is a recently funded one-year research project. Our communities and policy teams, along with a steering committee of industry experts, will explore the impact of sustainable affordable housing when compared to code or conventional construction for multifamily developments utilizing … Continue reading “Validating the Impact of Green Affordable Housing” Read More Tags: Affordable Housing
Georgia Growing Green About Us Southface Staff | August 27, 2014 Note from Dennis Creech, Southface co-founder. Dear Southface Community, The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 changed the public’s perception of the environment. However, while the production and use of energy was a major driver behind many of the serious global and local environmental challenges of the day, few in the environmental community worked on energy issues. On Wednesday, May 3, 1978, Denis Hayes, one of the leaders behind the first Earth Day, and others organized SUN Day—an international … Continue reading “Georgia Growing Green” Read More Tags:
Andrew Winston | Visionary Dinner Events Southface Staff | August 15, 2014 Southface is pleased to announce Andrew Winston as the Visionary Dinner keynote speaker . The Visionary Dinner is to be held at the Fox Theatre Egyptian Ballroom on October 1, 2014. Read More Tags: Visionary Dinner
Clean Power Plan Public Hearing Testimony PolicyRenewable Energy Southface Staff | July 29, 2014 This testimony was given during EPA public hearings in Atlanta on July 29, 2014. Read More Tags: Solar
Georgia is Well Positioned to Achieve its 2030 Goal Policy Southface Staff | July 25, 2014 On June 2, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a Clean Power Plan to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants that will hopefully satisfy the concerns of most industries, advocates and state-level regulators. The Plan acknowledges that states have to generate the electricity they need and therefore sets goals for each state to reduce its pollution-to-power ratio by the year 2030. Georgia’s goal is 834 pounds of CO2 emissions per megawatt-hour of electricity generated, a 44 percent drop … Continue reading “Georgia is Well Positioned to Achieve its 2030 Goal” Read More Tags: Carbon Footprint