Interested in tracking your energy usage? We're pleased to announce the availability of a free online energy tracking tool. The free website, named GreenQuest, is a personal energy dashboard that enables community members to track and analyze energy use for their home or place of business.

Using this software, community residents can track their energy use and cost; compare their building with its peers; evaluate energy saving projects; track their carbon footprint; analyze energy use with AccuWeather weather data; and as an option, obtain an ENERGY STAR building rating (for commercial buildings)

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Atlanta Green Source is proud to be a Champion for the Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia.  We have made a commitment to help the Sustainability Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources encourage participation in this voluntary Partnership, which helps companies find ways to cut costs, reduce waste streams, increase energy and water efficiency, and improve operations through environmental excellence.  This is a free service with measurable results. For more information about the Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia, visit http://www.gasustainability.org/.

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The recent floods have caused a lot of heartbreak and damage to local, family farms. We are still assessing the situation as to the number of farmers that will need assistance and the extent of the losses. Some farms have extensive damage; they have lost all of their crops and suffered devastating livestock losses. Unfortunately, FEMA does not provide relief funds to farmers affected by the floods; they will only offer loans. In order to assist our local farmers we have created the Georgia Flooded Farms Relief Fund.

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Sustainable Atlanta has released its first sustainability report, which compiles readily available data to create a benchmark for measuring Atlanta's sustainability efforts. The report, which can be found online at www.SustainableAtlanta.org establishes baselines, quantifies best practices and proposes strategies that are measurable and actionable.

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by Libby Bacon 

It's easy to jump on the green bandwagon, but this is not something new and trendy that will make us cool today. Being green is a way of life that many of our parents and grandparents embraced while we thought they were being cheap. Remember how they always turned out the lights and reused those paper bags until they were falling apart? If you don't then your Mom and Grandma were of the consumer mentality that became the norm in the second half of the 20th century. We are now having to re-adjust our thinking to remember our conservative roots. By conservative I'm not talking politics, but the need to be good stewards and conserve our resources...

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As the recession deepens and as belts tighten and budgets are squeezed across all industries and demographics, how is green purchasing affected?  For those who worry if buying green is just another passing trend or fad...

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