Lurking near the back of the solar pack has its advantages. At least that’s what a North Carolina State University solar energy expert told an audience this afternoon at Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center. “A lot of people are kind of hard on the Southeast and see the Southeast as one of the slower movers [...]

Atlantans may soon be able to pay for clean energy improvements to their homes through their own property taxes. That’s because legislation signed Friday by Gov. Sonny Perdue allows local development authorities to establish Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, financing. PACE is all the rage in clean energy circles. It helps solve a problem that homeowners [...]

The work of modernist architect Paul Rudolph, who designed Emory’s Cannon Chapel, is disappearing quickly, Treehugger reports. I didn’t realize that Rudolph — one of the most prominent modernists of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s — was known for his groundbreaking “green” work. But Treehugger offers numerous examples of his use of daylighting, shading and natural [...]

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 [...]

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.

Beazer Homes USA, a Fortune 500 homebuilder based in Atlanta, is promising to include more eco-friendly features in its standard homes, EcoHome Magazine reports. Starting this month, every new home built by Beazer will include additional air sealing and framing techniques that allow for more insulation in the homes, denser insulation within walls and attic spaces, [...]

“The Technology of Sustainable Design” opens tomorrow at the Gwinnett Environment & Heritage Center in Buford. The exhibit on emerging technologies that can be incorporated into green building design features the work of three Atlanta-based companies: Houser Walker Architecture, Timmons Design Engineers and Suniva, which manufactures solar cells. The exhibit closes Feb. 27. The center is located [...]

Dr. Howard Frumkin One of my favorite scientists — Atlanta’s Dr. Howard Frumkin — will serve as “honorary chair” of the upcoming Congress for New Urbanism in Atlanta. Frumkin’s title is more than a mouthful: He’s director of the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the U.S. Centers [...]

In its latest pitch to become known as a green IT provider, a Norcross company claims its new data center will use 27 percent less energy than conventional data centers. Corus360 hopes to win LEED Gold certification for the Technology Parkway building that houses the data center. “Corus360’s investment in creating a LEED Gold certified building [...]