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Dear Reader
This issue of the Southface Journal takes the saying “Think Globally, Act Locally” to heart by looking at European ecological research and trends in two articles and then taking a look at the metro Atlanta area’s rapidly expanding urban heat island.
Susan Garrett, Southface Commerical Green Building Services Project Manager who received her Masters degree at Bleking Institute of Technology in Sweden, outlines the Natural Step, a systems approach to how we can walk softly and sustainably upon the earth. |
For another international approach, Marie Weis, a Southface intern from France where she is an engineering student at Institut National Agronomique de Paris- Grignon, provides a look at environmental trends and practices in France and the EU.
Then for a look at our own backyard, we examine natural cooling and the impact that Atlanta’s rapidly shrinking tree canopy can have on energy consumption, the cost of cooling homes and other buildings and whether it is possible to stem the tide of tree removal due to development.
I am proud to be a part of producing my first Southface Journal, having joined the organization in June. All of us hope you will find it to be interesting, informative and a good resource for responsible solutions for environmental living.
Yours for a sustainable future,
Beth Haynes
Director of Development and Communications
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