Validating the Impact of Green Affordable Housing Green Building Alex Trachtenberg | August 29, 2014 “The most affordable home is one that is affordable to live in and operate.” These are words we’ve lived by for years at Southface, and finally, we’re working to put statistics behind the anecdotes. Validating the Impact of Green Affordable Housing is a recently funded one-year research project. Our communities and policy teams, along with a steering committee of industry experts, will explore the impact of sustainable affordable housing when compared to code or conventional construction for multifamily developments utilizing … Continue reading “Validating the Impact of Green Affordable Housing” Read More Tags: Affordable Housing
Georgia Growing Green About Us Southface Staff | August 27, 2014 Note from Dennis Creech, Southface co-founder. Dear Southface Community, The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 changed the public’s perception of the environment. However, while the production and use of energy was a major driver behind many of the serious global and local environmental challenges of the day, few in the environmental community worked on energy issues. On Wednesday, May 3, 1978, Denis Hayes, one of the leaders behind the first Earth Day, and others organized SUN Day—an international … Continue reading “Georgia Growing Green” Read More Tags:
Andrew Winston | Visionary Dinner Events Southface Staff | August 15, 2014 Southface is pleased to announce Andrew Winston as the Visionary Dinner keynote speaker . The Visionary Dinner is to be held at the Fox Theatre Egyptian Ballroom on October 1, 2014. Read More Tags: Visionary Dinner
Clean Power Plan Public Hearing Testimony PolicyRenewable Energy Southface Staff | July 29, 2014 This testimony was given during EPA public hearings in Atlanta on July 29, 2014. Read More Tags: Solar
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
