georgia

It's a growing energy trend in the U.S.: Proposed coal plants denied because they fail to address or sufficiently limit the amount of carbon dioxide. Georgia is the latest state to rule on this.

It's a beginning!!

In such a tough real estate market, eco-friendly and sustainable metal roofing can help sell homes by differentiating them from a neighborhood full of cookie cutter look-a-likes.  Metal roofing is attractive as well as energy-efficient, and most systems have lifetime warranties that are transferrable to the next owner.

Southern Metal Roofing, an eco-friendly Atlanta roofing company, posts a blog weekly about how to make your home greener.  This week's blog concerns the use of rain barrels to collect rain water for use on your lawn and garden.  The post also discusses why metal roofs and rain harvesting systems make such a great combination.

The Army Corps of Engineers rolled out a plan Friday that will keep more water in Atlanta’s Lake Lanier, a focal point in the tug-of-war over water involving Georgia, Alabama and Florida.

Presidents like to deliver good news in times of disaster. Yet three governors heading to Washington to lobby for water rights amid a potentially catastrophic drought are likely to put the Bush administration on the spot

With an epic drought gripping the region, Georgia lawmakers announced plans Thursday for a network of state reservoirs, while the governors of Alabama and Florida warned that Georgia's consumption threatens their downstream states.