Jonathan Bardelline reports on LG Electronics’ efforts to develop the world’s most efficient refrigerators, TV, washing machine and other projects. LG Electronics is hoping to appeal to the more climate-savvy consumer when it launches next year the first TV, fridge and other products to carry the CarbonFree logo. Created by the Carbonfund.org Foundation, the certification…
Highlights from yesterday’s press event on the roof of Ponce City Market (the building formerly known as City Hall East): • Work on the project by Jamestown Properties and its subsidiary, Green Street Properties will start slowly and won’t be evident for some time. The first phase — some 300,000 square feet of restaurants and…
Yet another “green cities” ranking project has placed Atlanta near the bottom among large U.S. cities when it comes to sustainability. The “Green Cities Index” — commissioned by Siemens and published by The Economist magazine — ranks Atlanta 21st out of the 27 most populous metro areas in the United States and Canada. The Atlanta…
The good news: Atlanta’s among the 30 leading commercial green building central business districts in the country, according to 2011 Green Building Opportunity Index issued by Cushman & Wakefield with help the Better Bricks Alliance. The bad news: The index says 25 of those markets offer better opportunities for commercial green building than Atlanta does. That’s…
Check out the 350 kilowatt array on top of this Publix grocery in Florida — installed by Atlanta-based Inman Solar. Brion Fitzpatrick, Inman’s biz dev guy, tells me the project was made possible by a feed-in tariff offered by the municipal utility in Gainesville, Fla. In fact, in 2009, Gainesville Regional Utilities became the first…
Bad news for Georgia Power.: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has raised significant questions about the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor, the design that Southern Co. has adopted for its two new reactors at Plant Vogtle, near Augusta. Together with a group of smaller Georgia utilities, Georgia Power owns Plant Vogtle. Its fellow Southern Co. subsidiary, Southern Nuclear,…
The Atlanta Beltline will re-open a small, under-used park in southeast Atlanta on Saturday with unique bragging rights: It’s the first metro Atlanta park and one of only a handful in the country that will generate from clean energy sources as much electricity as it uses. “D.H. Stanton Park will serve as a best-in-class model…
Damning words from two asthma researchers at Emory University: Here in Atlanta, scientists at Emory and Georgia Tech have been examining millions of emergency department visits to hospitals throughout metro Atlanta and have found a striking relationship between ozone concentration and emergency department visits for asthma. This relationship is observable after controlling for other factors…
Gov. Nathan Deal has signed a clean energy tax credit that came back from the dead during the 2011 Georgia Legislature. House Bill 346 doubles to $5 million the amount of money authorized for clean energy tax credits in Georgia, and revives — at least for the next three years — a program that had…
A Time Magazine article reminds of me of some of the work that Walter Brown and Green Street Properties have been doing in LEED administration. As we reported in January, Green Street performed LEED administration on one sizable, existing Manhattan tower, performed a LEED feasibility study for another, and is in the hunt for more…
