It ain’t quite as pithy as the Contract for America. But a Solar Bill of Rights adopted last week by the Georgia Solar Energy Association does manage to highlight a bunch of issues that solar industry advocates want the state to address. First among them is restoring the state’s renewable energy tax credit, which I…
The best roundup I’ve seen of federal clean energy and efficiency tax credits — including those signed into law by President Obama last month — appear on this Tax Incentives Assistance Project website. The tax package signed by the president “contains modifications and extensions to energy efficiency tax incentives for homeowners, home builders, and appliance…
This shouldn’t surprise any homebuilder who’s ever tried to convince a homebuyer to include green features in their new house: Consumers are less convinced than contractors that green features are worth the invetment, according to a survey commissioned by Habitat for Humanity and the Whirlpool Corp. The survey, which was performed in August by the…
A bit frustrated that money for Georgia’s Clean Energy Tax Credit ran out before the year was halfway over? Hoping lawmakers will correct that shortcoming in a program that obviously isn’t meeting the demand of green builders and property owners? Jill Johnson, program director for the Georgia League of Conservation Voters, has some advice for…
At the last minute yesterday — the last 30 seconds, really— Atlanta Sustainability Director Mandy Mahoney asked me to accompany her on stage GreenBusinessWorks EXPO and so that I could pepper her with “some tough questions.” That made it hard to take notes during her presentation on Atlanta’s recently unveiled sustainability initiative. But your noble…
Leaders of a labor-backed push to create green jobs while making buildings in American cities more energy efficient came to Atlanta Tuesday to dangle the prospect of their backing for Mayor Kasim Reed’s sustainable efforts here. The mission of the DC-based Emerald Cities Collaborative is ambitious: “a comprehensive retrofit of America’s urban building stock ……
