The Impact of Green Affordable Housing Green BuildingPolicy Alex Trachtenberg | March 24, 2016 Southface’s Alex Trachtenberg and Sarah Hill, along with the Virginia Center for Housing and Research at Virginia Tech, are aiming to upend the notion that green building can’t also be affordable, especially for those who need it most. Read More Tags: Affordable Housing
Inaugural Fulcrum Award Winners Announced Events Southface Staff | March 17, 2016 Imagine a simple awards program that could transform the market and shape the conversation. Southface, through creative thinking and provocative collaboration, created such a program with the inaugural Fulcrum Awards. Read More Tags: Greenprints
Meet a Southfacer: Laura Capps About Us Southface Staff | March 10, 2016 Meet Laura Capps, the program manager for Southface’s work on the Advanced Commercial Buildings Initiative. Read More Tags: Staff
Why Sustainability Matters Policy Southface Staff | February 24, 2016 Atlanta is emerging as a top-tier city internationally for sustainability.We’ve got a lot to show for the City’s sustainability program. We’ve got a lot to show for the City’s sustainability program. Read More Tags:
Roundtable: The Ted and Community Redevelopment CommunitiesEvents Southface Staff | February 9, 2016 In a recent article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bill Torpy featured his extended interview with Southface board member Leon Eplan. Eplan has been involved in the planning and design of Atlanta, sharing many success and frustrations of the region, since the early 1960s. Read More Tags: SART
Georgia’s Clean Energy Industry Provides Nearly 20,000 Full-Time Equivalent Jobs EducationPolicyRenewable Energy Shan Arora | January 26, 2016 Southface has released its 2015 Georgia Clean Energy Industry Census that quantifies the clean energy industry’s impact on the state’s economy. Read More Tags: Workforce Development
Southface Volunteers at MLK Day Service Project About UsEvents Southface Staff | January 21, 2016 The Southface team volunteered their time and expertise at the MLK Day Service Project in Decatur, helping to weatherize a home. Read More Tags: Martin Luther King Service Project
Get Over Sustainability; It’s Time To Embrace Resilience Communities Robert Reed | January 14, 2016 It’s not enough to rely solely on sustainability. We need to expand our focus to designing resilient and restorative ecological solutions. Read More Tags:
Southface Staff Develop Crucial New Data and Analysis Tool Green Technology Joey Shea | January 6, 2016 With funding from the EPA, Southface staff have developed a crucial new data reporting tool to track energy and water use across building certification programs and housing sectors in the Southeast. Data reporting and analysis is up and running for the Home Energy Rating System and EarthCraft programs already! Read More Tags:
Southface to Transition Leadership in 2016 About Us Joey Shea | December 18, 2015 After Dennis’ 38 years at the helm, the time is right to transition to the next visionary leader. Read More Tags: Andrea Pinabell, Staff