Southface Presents 2017 Argon Award for Sustainability Blog Staff Editor | August 29, 2017 Serenbe founder and CEO Steve Nygren will be honored with the 2017 Argon Award at Southface’s annual Visionary Dinner, a gala that brings together hundreds of sustainability professionals to raise awareness and funding for Southface’s continued work in high-performance affordable housing, green infrastructure, clean energy, healthy buildings and sustainable communities. Read More Tags: Visionary Dinner
EarthCraft Light Commercial Certification – Version 2.0 Green Building Dayna Thompson | August 29, 2017 Southface’s EarthCraft Light Commercial Certification is evolving into Version 2.0! This update will make the certification process more accessible, streamlined and affordable. As we finalize the new version for publication, we need knowledgeable people outside of Southface to review our current draft and let us know how we can make it even better. We trust you have a unique perspective that could provide us new insight into how to improve this program. Please help us provide the best program possible … Continue reading “EarthCraft Light Commercial Certification – Version 2.0” Read More Tags: EarthCraft
Launch to Celebrate Living Building at Georgia Tech Green Building Dayna Thompson | August 28, 2017 By Ken Edelstein, Editor, Kendeda Living Building Chronicle Don’t call it groundbreaking. The September 12 launch for the Living Building at Georgia Tech is about restoring the Earth more than “breaking” it. Right now, the site is a parking lot at the corner of Ferst Drive and State Street in the northwest quadrant of the Tech campus in Atlanta. This fall, Skanska USA, the contractor for the Living Building, will begin the process of converting that expanse of asphalt into … Continue reading “Launch to Celebrate Living Building at Georgia Tech” Read More Tags: Living Building Challenge
Southface LMS and Energy Code Hotline Education Dayna Thompson | August 23, 2017 Georgia was selected to participate in a Residential Energy Code Field Study by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This project will determine how to best help homes capture energy savings by increasing energy code compliance through series of statewide education and outreach efforts to the building industry. Our program partners are currently providing free education and technical assistance to help Georgia residents achieve the highest amount energy benefits associated with the current energy code. Georgia Energy Code trainings and … Continue reading “Southface LMS and Energy Code Hotline” Read More Tags: Energy Code
My EarthCraft Dream Realized Green Building Adam Rosenkoetter | August 22, 2017 By Tom Mills, guest contributor If we have met at a Southface event within the last five years, I likely mentioned my dream of an EarthCraft home. This July, the dream was finally realized in a new home constructed in downtown Lilburn, Ga. The home is on track for EarthCraft Platinum, with SK Collaborative serving as the rater. The house might seem familiar to many in the sustainability circle: The plan is the much-loved Sugarberry Cottage, which was built by … Continue reading “My EarthCraft Dream Realized” Read More Tags: EarthCraft
Meet the 2017 Visionary Dinner Chefs Events Dayna Thompson | August 22, 2017 This year’s Visionary Dinner will be especially memorable as our new President, Andrea Pinabell, puts her unique touch on the event. As the successor to our co-founder, Andrea brings a fresh and creative perspective to the celebration, including new networking opportunities and a new mix of entertainment, information and celebration. Visionary Dinner is anticipated each year by the Atlanta community for the convergence of hundreds of business leaders, policy makers, design, development and construction professionals and sustainability innovators. As always, … Continue reading “Meet the 2017 Visionary Dinner Chefs” Read More Tags: Visionary Dinner
Southface Corporate Member Spotlight: Integral Group Green Building Southface Staff | August 17, 2017 Integral Group gives life to performance buildings and communities that respect and enrich the earth. Read to find out why Integral Group became a Southface Corporate Member. Read More Tags:
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Announces Cox Enterprises and The Ray C. Anderson Foundation as Presenting Sponsors of the Climate Change Conference Blog Dayna Thompson | August 15, 2017 Chattahoochee Riverkeeper announces the 2017 Climate Change Conference with presenting sponsors Cox Enterprises and The Ray C. Anderson Foundation. The conference is set to take place on September 27-28, hosted by the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. Read More Tags:
Telling A Different Story: Sustainability As A Means To Increase Mission-Driven Capacity And Strengthen Communities Green Building Dayna Thompson | August 14, 2017 How does a building energy audit feed hungry people? Serve at-risk youth? Grow an arts program? Believe it or not, this isn’t a nonsequitur – it’s a demonstrated fact. Nonprofits are excellent targets for energy and water efficiency upgrades in their facilities as they are under pressure to reduce expenses and often occupy inefficient buildings that needlessly waste resources. Through Grants to Green and the Nonprofit Energy and Water Efficiency (NEWE) Initiative, nonprofits are able to free resources of revenue … Continue reading “Telling A Different Story: Sustainability As A Means To Increase Mission-Driven Capacity And Strengthen Communities” Read More Tags: Gooduse
Compostwheels Regenerative Design Southface Staff | August 14, 2017 Composting contributes to a greener environment, and saves you the trouble of heavy trash bags and funky smells in your home. Thankfully, you don’t have to live on a farm or in a rural area to compost your food scraps. Compostwheels, a residential and commercial compost pickup service based in Atlanta, Ga, has made composting at home effortless, even if you live in an apartment. Founded in 2012 by David Paull, the service seeks to reduce food waste and deliver … Continue reading “Compostwheels” Read More Tags: Compost
