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 Dear
Reader,
Thanks to our members and partners, Southface
has exciting news to report for the New Year. We are
pleased to be close to reaching our Eco Office capital
campaign goal. We are soliciting our final major gifts
early in 2005, and will offer our members a way to become
involved shortly thereafter. If you have ideas on how
you or your company might want to contribute to our
success, feel free to call or visit. Each gift will
be matched by the Kendeda Fund to further increase its
impact.
In this issue of the Southface Journal
you’ll learn more about the unique contractor’s
consortium that has formed to construct the Eco Office
– beginning in late February. Other Southface Journal
features include information and statistics on the growing
momentum in support of organic foods. This is an exciting
prelude to our March 23 Visionary Dinner. Whole Foods
Market, the Whole Foods Chefs Panel as well as Fetzer
and Bonterra Vineyards are already hard at work planning
a five-course meal that will enable you to “Savor
the Sustainable Table.”
We are proud that during 2005, we will
offer our members and friends several local opportunities
to join national leaders who are transforming the market
for sustainability. March 13-15 the National Association
of Home Builders comes to Atlanta for its National Green
Building Conference. The conference curriculum includes
a Southface-sponsored Greenprints track along with numerous
other valuable educational opportunities for the residential
construction sector. From November 9-11, more than 10,000
commercial design and construction professionals will
convene in Atlanta for the U.S. Green Building Council’s
Greenbuild conference, and again Southface and Greenprints
will sponsor an educational track.
While we will not host an independent
Greenprints conference in 2005, we plan to sponsor a
series of green building workshops across the Southeast.
Please let us know if you are interested in hosting
a program. We will also be developing a series of online
green building training modules and information resources.
And of course, we will continue to grow
the EarthCraft House residential green building program,
especially the community design and affordable housing
initiatives.
We appreciate your interest in our work.
Please let us know how we can enhance your involvement
with us as we promote sustainable homes, workplaces
and communities.
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