Environmental Forum Series Begins Sept. 3

The first in a series of environmental forums called To Survive and Thrive: Policies and Practices for Sustainable Growth Innovations in Economic Development will  be held Sept. 3 from noon to 2 p.m. The guest speaker will be Marilyn Brown, professor of energy policy at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy. Her topic will be Shrinking the Carbon Footprint in Metropolitan Areas, The event is free and open to the public, who are encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch. The program will be held at the Centergy Building in Technology Square, 75 5th St. in the Hodges Conference Room on the third floor. For more information about this and future forums, visit www.stip.gatech.edu/forum.

Georgia Tech's "Green Buzz"

The Georgia Tech campus in Midtown has created the Green Buzz website, detailing how the campus is "going green." From the website:

In early 2008 a cross-campus committee was invited to participate in a project designed to pull together the myriad ways in which Georgia Tech is working to make a positive impact in how people think about and use the planet's raw materials. From that committee springs Green Buzz, a central resource that is expected to inform, showcase, promote, and encourage green behaviors, activities, initiatives and events within the Georgia Tech community.

Whether in the realm of research, policy or practice, members of the Georgia Tech community are recognized leaders in the field of sustainability. This site hopes to capture a fraction of the good work being done.

To find out what's going on at Tech, visit the website at www.gatech.edu/greenbuzz.