Comments on: What’s your story?

By: Cindy Tarrant

Cindy Tarrant — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:41:44 +0000

What a wonderful blog! I’m trying to get information out to Decatur and East Atlanta about a new “green” business. It is called Compost Pick-up, and we compost for the business owner and homeowner. We deliver clean bins with compostable bags, pick the bags and bins up weekly or for restaurants and grocery stores daily. We leave a clean bin. After customers have been with us for 6-9 months, we return compost and worm castings to them. We’re just starting out, and we need to educate the community about this, so we can get some customers and make our business work? Read about our quest on thecompostpickup.com or email us at compostpickup@yahoo.com

By: Michael Herrington

Michael Herrington — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:51:12 +0000

I don’t live in your city, but I do travel through it many times. And I was wondering-since Westside park is scheduled to be the largest park in Atlanta (351 acres), wouldn’t it be wonderful if the Georgia Power Co would make a goodwill gesture and donate the land it currently runs it’s power lines through the city on the proposed park’s southern boundary. Why not bury the power lines or reroute them through another part of the city as in Washington, DC. They (Power Lines) always seem to mar the natural beauty of Atlanta, and by burying them, you add even more greenspace to the city thereby enlarging the park even more! I think that would help improve the surrounding neighborhoods and increase land values by having a larger marquee park than a mere 351 acres. Why not 400, or 500 acres!!! To me that would be like icing on the cake. Here in Chicago, our big urban parks start out at 500 acres. To me a park that size would greatly benefit the entire city of Atlanta by ensuring that the park resources and activities are not degraded or overused by the multitudes of people that will surely use such a large urban expanse of parkland. I still wish the city success in the building of this remarkable green gem and the gems all along the entire beltline. Good Luck and Godspeed…Michael Herrington.

By: John Aikman

John Aikman — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:19:24 +0000

Home Grown Cow – Connecting Farnms with Consuners who care where their meat and poultry come from:

My name is John Aikman I recently started a company called Home Grown Cow which, despite its name, is designed to promote the products and farms of independent livestock and poultry farmers of all kinds. While I lived outside Marietta, GA and worked in Atlanta for several years, I now live in Wisconsin, but Home Grown Cow is designed to help smaller farms all over the country.

We only just launched our site in beta last week, but have been thrilled at the positive response from the ag community, and farms have already begun to sign up. While the site is still a work in progress and not yet open for selling, we are actively seeking farms to participate. It costs nothing to list your farm, we only charge a small service fee if and when you make a sale. We welcome all farming practices as our goal is to offer maximum choice to consumers, but we do think that the majority of them will be those who “lean towards green”. Our service includes payment processing (credit card), order conveyance and SEO/SEM marketing. We are also in the process of setting up a shipping solution so all the farm has to do is print a label that is sent to them and stick it on the box. We expect to go live to consumers before the end of this month.

Please feel free to check us out at http://www.homegrowncow.com/?src=ourgreenatlanta and by all means contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

John

By: JC Van Liere

JC Van Liere — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:30:51 +0000

I am the proud owner of Enviro Auto Care, a Waterless Car Wash company thats Sponsored by Nike. We have saved over 600,000 gallons of water since April of 2008. Did you know that an average traditional water-expending car wash done in your driveway can waste upwards to 100 gallons of water? Not to mention the harmful products and soaps that seep into our drains! The products we use are truly GREEN, being V.O.C. compliant, biodegradable, organic, and anti-fungal. We specialize in servicing fleet vehicles, offering a GUARANTEED better wash than the water wasters (our base wash includes 2 waxes) and often times saving the company money from their current over priced service providers, water bills, payroll from having an employee drive the vehicles to a wash, and/or gas consumption to and from said places. With waterless technology, we are able to wash any vehicle, ANYWHERE without having to move it and without leaving a mess all over the ground. In a nutshell, my company is conserving Earths most precious resource, one vehicle at a time.

I launched the business in 2008 after working in the hospitality industry for 7 years. We saw a need for a car wash at the hotel I was managing at but were met with nothing but dead ends since Atlanta was in a drought period. Via Google, I discovered waterless car wash products that were popular throughout Europe and Australia that work through a process called emulsification. I was skeptical, made a few phone calls, tested a few products and was very impressed with one companies products in particular. Many companies claimed to be “green” but I found that only one company had an EPA approval. Also, being a member of the Georgia Army National Guard I was pleased to find that this company was owned by a former member of the US Military and that all the products were made in the USA. The rest is history!

By: Patty

Patty — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:22:29 +0000

We are the very proud owners of a wonderful green company in Georgia. We specialize in helping Atlanta families go green and sustain our world with green technology/renewable energy. We've partnered up with alot a industry trades to allow families to green at thier own pace and we even help with filiing the tax credit papers. Both my husband and I are eco-friendly to this world and we are so very proud to help out Atlantans and thier families.

By: Dee Giarratano

Dee Giarratano — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:41:22 +0000

BIG EVENT!!!!!

I just wanted to get this information out about our brand spanking new community garden at ! Thanks to the participation of Deaklb County, Scott’s Mracle Grow, Dekalb Beautiful, Home Depot, and a whole lotta’ toil and sweat from our neighborhood, we have developed what hopefully will be a model for other communities.

Our “grand opening” will be May 4 and it promises to be a huge event with press coverage, sponsor tents (Home Depot and Scotts).

Check out this pictorial of our progress one picture at a time. It’s a great testimonial to what a group of determined and united individuals can accomplish!

http://picasaweb.google.com/113375675528045705052/ParkviewGardenTakesShape?feat=email#5461258173209704002

PLEASE CROSS POST THIS!

By: Our Green Atlanta

Our Green Atlanta — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:21:35 +0000

Thanks for your contributions to helping a huge industry go paperless!

By: Dee Giarratano

Dee Giarratano — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:51:58 +0000

Helping the construction industry go green.

Takeoff Live, LLC is a construction-industry software provider with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 2006 by construction-industry professionals, Takeoff Live’s goal is to help customers increase bid-win rates through the use of elegantly simple and affordable takeoff and estimating software.

Takeoff Live’s software frees estimators from the tedious task of creating takeoffs on paper plans and trying to calculate accurate results for complicated figures with a calculator. As an emerging industry leader, Takeoff Live applications are in use by estimators in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and around the world. The Company’s target market includes the more than 857,000 residential and 530,000 non-residential construction firms in the U.S., as well as internationally, especially small-to-midsize firms that can benefit from the increased efficiency and cost-effectiveness of this software. The Company will also market heavily to college architecture and construction management departments across the country, helping Takeoff Live become a standard in the industry. It is already in use at three colleges.

Conservatively, the industry in the US prints more than 100 million plan print pages per year. This consumes approximately 47,000 trees per year.

By: Polly

Polly — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:20:42 +0000

Being a low impact consumer has always been a personal and family goal, but now that my daughter is here, I am doubly committed to preservation and modeling sustainable practices. My husband and I garden, compost via our chickens, use good old fashioned black gold fertilizer (our horse’s poop), recycle, take care with power use, and try to buy relatively locally. We were profoundly impacted by Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in 2007 and haven’t looked back.
One of the coolest feelings I have had as a mother (so far) is feeding my daughter food grown in our garden–I know each bite that I put in her mouth has been harvested and grown sustainably. (I won’t say anything about fair labor practices!)
In addition, I volunteer with Heifer Project International, a community development NGO that functions as the highest and best example of environmentally sound, life changing hope. Check them out at http://www.heifer.org