Posted by Our Green Atlanta on January 31, 2010
Below, you’ll find a press release from Southeast Green about their upcoming GREEN Real Estate Summit next month!
Southeast Green is pleased to announce its partnership with BOMA-Atlanta to present the inaugural GREEN Real Estate Summit, held Feb. 16 and 17, 2010 at the Emory Conference Center Hotel in Atlanta. As the first meeting of its kind in the state of Georgia, the Summit brings together commercial real estate owners, property managers, facility managers, building engineers and companies providing green products and services to learn about the benefits of utilizing sustainable practices. Specifically, the event will focus on sustainable operations and maintenance of existing buildings.
The Summit will feature educational seminars equipping you with the knowledge and skills you need to go green successfully. Session topics include presentations about ENERGY STAR®; creating buy-ins for green programs; taking advantage of low-cost/no-cost ways to green-fit your building; dispelling “green” myths; analyzing the ROI of going green; and much, much more. Every session will include three take-aways you can implement at your property.
Visit the GREEN Real Estate Summit website to view the summit schedule, session descriptions and speaker bios. Exhibitor and sponsor information are also available.
Don’t miss out on this educational opportunity – register online today! Late fees apply after February 5th.
For more information or if you have specific questions about the GREEN Real Estate Summit, please contact BOMA-Atlanta at (404) 475-9980, Sandra Cummins at sandra@southeastgreen.com, or Beth Bond at beth@southeastgreen.com.
Posted in Education, Environment, Events | Tagged: BOMA-Atlanta, Energy Star appliances, green building, green educational seminars, green products, green real estate, GREEN Real Estate Seminar, Southeast Green, sustainable design | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Our Green Atlanta on January 16, 2010

Heading south on our BeltLine walk of the northeast corridor, we walked over these railroad cross ties. On our way back north, two small bobcats hard at work had already pulled up those same cross ties and tossed them into piles to be picked up and carted off. Look for mulch trails coming this spring!
This morning, a smaller crowd than usual set off on a six mile hike of the Atlanta BeltLine’s northeast corridor, headed from Piedmont Park to DeKalb Avenue. (The predicted rain deterred some folks from coming out and we hoped it would hold off until after 1 p.m., but that’s didn’t work out so well.) We had to watch our steps as we walked back and forth across the tracks of two small bobcats that were at work tearing up the railroad ties. Last month, the rails had been pulled up, but the cross ties remained. Not so anymore. On our way south, we tromped on some of the remaining ties and, on the way back north, walked past the piles of wooden beams the crew had extracted from the earth in the hour or two we’d been gone. It just keeps getting easier and easier to walk the path and if you haven’t already, I highly suggest you check it out!
I just did this walk a month ago with Angel and was doing it again so soon as part of our planning efforts to debut the first ever BeltLine public arts and exhibition coming to the 8 miles of open trail this summer and fall. By June 2010, artists will begin installing works of art, ranging from sculpture to performance art to horticulture, along the northeast and southwest sections of the BeltLine.
Who are these artists? We will be sending out a call for entries in two weeks for artists across metro Atlanta to submit proposals for their own public art projects that represent their take on the past, present, and future of the BeltLine and, most importantly, the welcoming of these historical parts of the city back into the public realm. This public art project will be a reawakening of an integral part of Atlanta’s past and a peak at the future of transportation and greenspace. So stay tuned for more details on the call for entries for artists and for the call for volunteers to support them in the near future!
Posted in Atlanta BeltLine | Tagged: Atlanta BeltLine, walking trails, Atlanta Beltline tours, urban hiking, railroad recycling, BeltLine art project, public art projects | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Our Green Atlanta on January 12, 2010
Mark your calendar – next week is a free-to-the-public “Sustainable Transportation Forum” hosted by the Consulate General of Switzerland in Atlanta and Georgia Tech. Why is Switzerland talking to us about transportation? Because the Swiss have long since figured out the intricacies and efficiencies of public transit and are here to share with us Georgians.
Local and international transportation experts, business leaders and policy makers will explore solutions to Georgia’s growing transportation challenges in a three-part program covering:
- The Future of Georgia’s Transportation Grid
- What Choices Do We Have?
- Where Do We Go From Here?
Expert presentations will forecast our future traffic capacity and transportation demands. Outstanding examples of sustainable transportation solutions from Switzerland – a world leader in passenger rail – will be highlighted. Political realities and financial constraints will also be explored.
What: Sustainable Transportation Forum: Georgia Officials Look to Switzerland for Transportation Solutions
When: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 1:00 – 5:30 pm
Where: Technology Square Research Building at Centergy, 85 Fifth Street in Midtown Atlanta (map it!)
Getting there: Walk from the Midtown MARTA Station or park at Georgia Tech Conference Center on Spring Street.
Register now at www.thinkrail.org!
Posted in Education, Transportation | Tagged: alternate transportation, Atlanta commuter rail, Atlanta transportation initiatives, environmental events, public transit, public transportation, Sustainable Transportation Forum, Swiss Consulate Atlanta, traffic solutions | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Our Green Atlanta on January 10, 2010
Looking for LEED? Atlanta may not be a leading city in terms of our pollution contributions, but we do know a thing or two about green building! Through this Friday, January 15, 2010, the Museum of Design Atlanta will be staging a traveling exhibition that showcases Atlanta as the city with the most LEED certified eco-friendly buildings. “Beyond Bricks and Sticks” is sponsored by the Kendeda Fund (who contributed to Trees Atlanta’s LEED certified education center, among many other projects) and will be traveling throughout Atlanta to such locations such as the World of Coke Museum, the Woodruff Arts Center, the CNN Center, and the Cobb Galleria.
I checked out the Museum of Design Atlanta‘s website for more details as to the various locations and hours, but the info was minimal, so you may want to give them a call at 404.979.6455 or email info@museumofdesign.org.
Posted in Environment, Events | Tagged: Beyond Bricks and Sticks, eco-friendly, green building, Kendeda Fund, LEED certified buildings in Atlanta, Museum of Design Atlanta | 1 Comment »
Posted by Our Green Atlanta on January 3, 2010

Even little Christmas trees (like mine above) need to be mulched! You can recycle your Atlanta Christmas tree with Keep Atlanta Beautiful on January 9th, 2010.
Size doesn’t matter when it comes to recycling your Christmas tree this year. Keep Atlanta Beautiful invites metro Atlanta and Decatur residents to transform their Christmas trees into mulch this year with their annual “Bring One for the Chipper” program. As an added bonus, after saving your tree from a sad fate in a landfill, you can even request a pile of mulch for your own yard! Here’s how, direct from the Keep Atlanta Beautiful website:
The mulch from these trees has been used for playgrounds, local government beautification projects, and residential yards. The high quality, weed-free and pest-free mulch can be obtained for your large-scale landscaping project free of charge. Contact Davey Tree Service at 770-451-7911 for more information or download the Mulch Request Form.
This year’s event will take place at two Home Depots here in Atlanta from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, January 9th, 2010:
- 650 Ponce de Leon Avenue (map it!)
- 2525 Piedmont Avenue, Atlanta (map it!)
And Keep Atlanta Beautiful would like to extend a big thanks to Boy Scout Troop 298 for their service in helping unload the trees this year!
Don’t live in Atlanta? Just click here for the Keep Georgia Beautiful website where you can type in your zip code to find a recycling drop off point near you.
So come be one of thousands of Georgians recycling their trees into useful organic material and keeping them out of a landfill! Peggy Denby, the Executive Director of Keep Atlanta Beautiful, thanks you and encourages you to spread the word! You can also check out their website for more information.
Posted in Donate, Recycling, Trees | Tagged: Atlanta recycling programs, Bring One for the Chipper, Christmas tree recycling, free mulch, Keep Atlanta Beautiful, tree recycling Georgia | 1 Comment »