There are more than 650,000 Web pages about LEED and the LEED certification process, according to Google. Many days, you probably feel like you have to comb through them all for the advice you're looking for.

This month I want to persuade you to buy a car. It’s a compact sedan with a small trunk, good gas economy although the performance is nothing to write home about. Not a great start I hear you cry. And it gets worse. I am going to charge you several thousand dollars more for this car than other highly efficient and better equipped cars on the market.

The House approved a new economic stimulus bill that could lead to thousands of dollars in "Cash for Caulkers" rebates for homeowners who renovate their homes with better insulation and energy-saving windows and doors.

The South Carolina Energy Office has received $1.7 million in stimulus funds to provide energy audits and assessments for public, non-profit and private, for-profit entities, helping them identify ways to operate with greater energy efficiency.

“Experience is the best teacher,” someone (probably Adam) once said. For LEED projects, that maxim holds especially true because ours is a new field without a long history of accepted wisdom, rules of thumb, tricks of the trade, or other well-documented and long-held truths from which the practitioner can learn.

Georgia Power Co. proposed a $615 million rate increase Thursday that would hike monthly rates for the average business by 7.7 percent to 10.3 percent

As more consumers focus on “green” packaging as part of their purchasing decisions, food and beverage companies continue to work on sustainable packaging centered on using less materials and increasing the amount of recycled content.

Scrambling to find a silver lining to the dark cloud of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, ethanol advocacy groups are pressing for more government support for the biofuel industry, with advertising campaigns targeted at lawmakers in Washington.

Starting this month, Energy Ace will be presenting training workshops on meeting the standards of the Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Construction Act of 2008 (EESCA), which contains requirements for Green Building in state funded facilities. The workshops are intended for state facilities managers/administrators, architects, engineers, contractors and various other building professionals interested in and affected by the new requirements. The workshops will be held around metro-Atlanta, Savannah and Macon.

Because we believe that environmental responsibility and economic strength go hand-in-hand in Georgia, Energy Ace has joined the Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia.  Through the program, you have the flexibility to choose which environmental issues are most important to your organization.  The staff of the Sustainability Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is available to help your business or organization find ways to operate more efficiently and, at the same time, protect Georgia’s natural resources.