City Council approved a long-awaited ordinance Monday that permits Atlanta residents to install and operate systems that treat rainwater for use inside the home. Although the potable rainwater ordinance took nearly a year’s worth of negotiations, revisions and false starts, Atlanta still is ahead of much of the nation when it comes to ordinances allowing…
Georgia Tech-trained computer scientist Shwetak Patel is one of 22 2011 MacArthur Fellows, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced early this morning. Patel, now a faculty member at the University of Washington in Seattle, won the honor and its accompanying no-strings-attached $500,000 award (widely known as the “genius grant”) after inventing “a…
A landmark ordinance making it easier for Atlantans to use rainwater inside their homes gained approval this morning from City Council’s Utilities Committee, according to one of the authors of the legislation. Jenah Zweig of the city’s Office of Sustainability wrote in an e-mail that the ordinance is slated to go before the fully Council…
Green Building Chronicle is in the midst of a brief semi-hiatus. We’ll publish occasional articles during this break, and we’ll be back with even more great coverage of green development, design and construction on Sept. 19.
The world’s most ambitious green building certification program is getting a bit of push into Atlanta this month. Whether that results in construction anytime soon of an actual edifice that meets the exacting standards of the Living Building Challenge is another story. The Living Building Challenge is a certification program like no other. The U.S….
Georgia banks as a whole were profitable for the second quarter of 2011, the first time in nearly three years the industry has had a positive result in the state. While individual banks returned to profitability earlier, the state’s banks were last profitable cumulatively in the third quarter of 2008. Continue this story at AJC.com.
Glassmaking in America has been in decline for at least a decade as manufacturers have moved production to China and other emerging economies. But can the green-buildings movement spark a revival? Makers of a new class of energy-efficient “dynamic” windows are establishing factories in the United States. Helping to drive this growth spurt is a…
When it comes to American real estate, it’s a buyer’s market. And apparently, that message has made its way around the world. Monday, nearly a dozen real estate investors from Australia spent the day touring Atlanta by bus, moving from house to house and inspecting each one for potential purchase. “The American dollar has dropped….
City officials have agreed to lower a portion of the proposed fees attached to a landmark ordinance designed to allow single-family homes in Atlanta to install potable rainwater systems. That clears way for the City Council Public Utilities Committee to approve the ordinance at its Aug. 30 meeting. The full Council could approve the legislation…
This may surprise you: Barclays Capital says Atlanta will emerge as one the best markets for new homes over the next few years. The reason? “Regions that have pushed foreclosures through the pipeline quickly should see demand for new homes earlier than those that have allowed their backlog to grow,” a report released Friday by…
