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Energy Audit Yields Surprising Results for ACE Office
by John Lawson, Loan Officer Our office is freezing. At one point, it was so cold that an employee brought a heated dog bed from home to warm her feet at her desk. Honestly, I blamed the cold temperatures on the thermostat being set too low in order to be more “green”. Grace, our president,…
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Stylish Eco-Friendly Products Encourage Green Gifting
DECATUR, GA. You recycle, bike to work, and use green cleaning products. But how can you green your gift-giving? ecosource Home and Garden makes it easy by offering “stylish and cool” garden kits, plant containers and dishes–all made with biodegradable materials like rice hulls and coconut fiber. Founder Chuck Rose and his partner, Chad Callihan, believe that…
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Step One of Greening Plan: A Look at Lighting
By John Lawson, Loan Officer In recent years, there have been great improvements in the lighting technology. Home owners everywhere are switching from incandescent bulbs to compact florescent technology (CFL) and LED lighting. Both offer longer life and more efficient energy usage than incandescent bulbs. As ACE began looking into ways to reduce our energy…
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Creating ACE’s Cost-Cutting-Where-Environmentally-Friendly Plan
by Jace Brewer, Loan Officer for ACE I don’t consider myself an environmentalist, conservationist, or preservationist. I work in the lending department at ACE and my focus is on small business. So when given the task of creating a green plan for ACE, reducing expenses to impact the bottom line was my primary concern. It…
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Creating green jobs, one small business at a time…
The United Nations defines a green job as one that preserves or improves the environment. A succinct yet broad definition that perfectly describes the purpose of Georgia Green Loans. In 2009, the first year of operation, Georgia Green Loans provided capital to 16 businesses who created or retained 79 jobs. Our customers included an organic…
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Congratulations to 2010 Academy Participants!
We had many great applications, and it was a hard decision, but we finally chose three organizations for the inaugural session of the Academy for Green Microenterprise Development! They are: Detroit Midtown Micro-enterprise Fund, Detroit, MI Good Work Network, New Orleans, LA SNAP, Spokane, WA All three have a green loan program underway and we…
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Holiday Delights – A Locally Grown Feast
Photo by Nada Powers Bunnell – Loganberry Heritage Farm A Guest Blog By Jennie Inglis, Cleveland, Georgia I could write a narrative on our locally/Georgia/regionally grown dinner that is as long as the dinner was large. I would like to write that, but the story soon becomes entangled with twists and turns until the details…
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Georgia Green Loans mentioned in AOL Small Business
Georgia Green Loans was the first mention in an article by Charlotte Jensen on capital for green businesses! Green Loans Aid Eco-Minded Entrepreneurs
