Savannah furniture maker Structured Green gets a nice write-up in Treehugger, the popular environmental webzine. Structured Green, based in Savannah, Georgia, is designing and building a variety of home furnishings from a spectrum of low-impact materials such as bamboo, certified sustainable lumber, and woods salvaged from barns and riverbeds. It’s all held together with water-based glues [...]

Four former partners at Atlanta-based Alston & Bird have formed a new firm to represent businesses faced with environmental issues in Atlanta and Washington. Bob Mowry, one of the founders of Mowrey Meezan Coddington Cloud LLP, helped to develop Alston & Bird’s well-known Environmental and Land Practice, which generally represents large companies dealing litigation or regulatory [...]

ellen dunham-jones Organizers of today’s TEDxAtlanta mini-conference at Unboundary in Midtown posed a timely theme for their speakers: “Re-purpose.” It was especially appropriate for the three visionary architects who kicked off the conference. Yeah, I know. “Visionary” is an overused descriptor for architects. But in this case, it’s appropriate. As in how can shipping containers be re-purposed for [...]

Agnes Scott College has become the first educational institution to bar idling vehicles on campus, the private Decatur college for women announced today. Trucks and service vehicles on campus will now be required to turn off their engines while making deliveries. “No Idle Zone” signs will be placed in the three areas where service and delivery [...]

Georgia-Pacific Wood Products launched a campaign Tuesday to laud its own sustainability efforts at the 2010 International Builders Show. “The company also received notification that they have received chain-of-custody certification from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI),” according to Mother Nature Network. Ironic — isn’t it — that the Georgia-Pacific is owned by the harshly anti-environmental Koch family?

AJCs Rick Badie on the “Technology of Sustainable Design” exhibit at the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center. The exhibit, which runs through Feb. 27, may be worth checking out if you’re interested in green building and design.

Surprise, surprise. Southern Co. opposes reporting its greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This despite the fact that Coca-Cola, UPS and six other large Georgia-based companies voluntarily report their emissions to the EPA already, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports. Of course, Southern Co., which owns Georgia Power, is a far larger emitter of carbon [...]

The Wall Street Journal outlines how the U.S. Department of Energy is funding companies that are making transition to clean energy economy. Much of the money mentioned in the story comes from President Obama’s stimulus package

Thursday’s glowing profile of Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent in Fortune magazine online couldn’t contrast more starkly with activists’ lampooning last weekend of the Atlanta-based company for alleged environmental and human rights shortcomings. Fortune writer Marc Gunther points out that Kent is one in a small handful of CEOs from big American companies who bothered to make [...]

Don’t you wish they’d just listen to you? You, after all, really care about the environment. You took the time to find out whether cloth diapers are greener than disposables … where the new farmer’s market is … what your kid’s school is doing about climate change. If that describes you, it’s time you shared your knowledge [...]