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
Bosch Residential Geothermal Heat Pumps Green Technology Southface Staff | July 24, 2014 Bosch Greensource Residential Geothermal Heat Pumps Deliver Cost Savings With High Efficiency Green Technology The Bosch Greensource CDi series stands for Complete Design with Innovation, and is built and tested to be one of the highest efficiency and most reliable units on the market. The Greensource™ CDi Series Model SM heat pump comes in cooling capacities from 2 to 6 tons and is equipped with quality and innovative technology to cool and heat a home economically and in an environmentally … Continue reading “Bosch Residential Geothermal Heat Pumps” Read More Tags:
Join us October 1 for Visionary Dinner! Events Southface Staff | July 24, 2014 Reserve your seat now for the 2014 Visionary Dinner on Wednesday, October 1 in the Egyptian Ballroom of the historic Fox Theatre. Read More Tags: Visionary Dinner
Meet a Southfacer: Jenna Grygier About Us Jenna Grygier | June 20, 2014 Jenna Grygier, Residential Green Building Services project manager As a RESNET Quality Assurance Designee (QAD), Jenna manages the Southface Energy Rated Homes (SERH) providership and serves as a mentor and technical advisor for new and existing independent HERS and Southface staff. She is involved with overseeing the ENERGY STAR, Indoor airPLUS and WaterSense programs and ensuring that all third-party quality assurance responsibilities are performed and reported. Jenna also provides training support for a variety of Southface trainings such as HERS … Continue reading “Meet a Southfacer: Jenna Grygier” Read More Tags: Staff
Historic and Green: EarthCraft Sustainable Preservation Program Launched Green Building Bourke Reeve | May 20, 2014 Southface and The Georgia Trust have developed the nation’s first green building certification program for historic buildings. Read More Tags: EarthCraft, Historic Preservation
Meet a Southfacer: Maria Quiñones About Us Southface Staff | May 16, 2014 Maria conducts energy and water assessments for commercial facilities. She provides technical assistance to the Atlanta Better Buildings Challenge program for large commercial facilities that have publicly pledged to reduce energy and water use by 20% by 2020. Maria also works with the Grants to Green program for metro Atlanta nonprofits by identifying energy and water conservation projects and providing technical support for implementing resource-saving strategies. Read More Tags: Staff
Four Metro Atlanta Nonprofits Receive Grants to Green Campus Funds Green Building Chandra Farley | May 8, 2014 Initiative aims to reduce environmental impact while increasing building operations cost-efficiency. Read More Tags: Gooduse
Integrated Design: A Case Study of Weatherford Place Green Building Southface Staff | May 1, 2014 The residential workshop took place at Weatherford Place, a Solar Community of EcoCraft Hybrid™ Homes in Roswell designed and constructed by Cadmus Construction. The development has achieved the first Platinum Level LEED for Homes Certification in Georgia, a pioneering feat attained by only five percent of LEED for Homes certification recipients nationwide. Read More Tags: EarthCraft, LEED, Solar
Health aspects of LEED certification Building HealthGreen Building Laura Case | May 1, 2014 The USGBC’s goal is to provide a program that gives building teams tools to develop high-performance, healthy living spaces. Southface utilizes this tool to provide technical assistance and sustainability consulting services for many clients interested in providing healthy environments in their homes, school, offices, and clinics. Read More Tags: Indoor Air Quality, LEED
Southface’s IREC-accredited Trainings and DOE’s Quality Work Plan Education Brad Turner | May 1, 2014 In July 2012, Southface became one of the first Weatherization Training Centers (WTC) in the country to earn IREC Accreditation for its Energy Auditor Training Program. In January 2014, Southface earned IREC Accreditation for the remaining three Home Energy Professional Training Programs: Quality Control Inspector, Retrofit Installer Technician and Crew Leader, making Southface one of only seven WTCs in the country to possess IREC Accreditation for all four of the Home Energy Professional designations. Read More Tags: Weatherization