EarthCraft Atlanta: Setting the Standard for the S

With successful green building programs like EarthCraft House, Metro Atlanta is slowly defining what it means to be green in the Southeast US. The city now has over 5,500 EarthCraft certified homes and condos and six EarthCraft communities. The standards have proven to be so successful at producing homes that Georgians want to live in that they've been adopted in Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

The EarthCraft standards were developed for Metro Atlanta in 1999 as way to measure and encourage energy efficient building practices in the booming Metro Atlanta region. In order to be certified by the EarthCraft program, homes have to meet standards for environmental impact, pollution prevention, energy efficiency, comfort and conservation.

The real estate market in Metro Atlanta is now full of homes with the EarthCraft seal of approval. The program offers training and technical assistance to builders interested in building green homes. After just eight years, hundreds of builders in Georgia specialize in building certified Earthcraft houses.

Though it may feel good to live in a green home, the popularity of the EarthCraft standards and the homes that get the EarthCraft Seal of approval aren't about tree-hugging. What's really making people take notice is the added value that certification guarantees. Because they're energy efficient with higher standards for building materials and indoor air quality, Earthcraft buildings are designed to be cheaper to operate and save owners money. These homes are also longer-lasting and healthier to live in.

The success of the EarthCraft House program is one of many signs of Atlanta's aspirations to go green and not a moment too soon. The population of Metro Atlanta has exploded over the last five years and the area has grown faster than any other major metropolitan area in the states. It's significant that a city famous for its sprawl should also be the birthplace of such a successful eco-program. The Earthcraft program takes its place alongside world-class community projects like Atlantic Station, Georgia Tech's recent success in the 2007 Solar Decathlon and one of the highest percentages of LEED certified buildings in the US. Programs like these are testimony to the city's effort to catch up with itself and grow sustainably.

Posted by Mary Taylor on December 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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Local Information for Fort Smith, AR

Latitude: 35.368691 -- Longitude: -94.398737

ZIP Codes for Fort Smith, Arkansas	72901 72902 72903 72904 72905 72906 72908 72913 72914 72916 72917 72918 72919
Area Code for Fort Smith, Arkansas	479
Time zone for Fort Smith, Arkansas	CST

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Fort Smith was founded in 1817 as a military settlement to patrol the neighboring Indian Territory. The fort was abandoned in 1824 but a town founded by John Rogers had formed alongside the fort by that time. In 1838 the fort was re-occupied and expanded. In 1871 the fort was again abandoned. However, the town continued to thrive despite the absence of the fort. One of Fort Smith's most notable historic figures was Judge Isaac Parker. He served as US District Judge from 1875-1896. He was nicknamed the "Hanging Judge" because in his first term after assuming his post he tried eighteen people for murder, convicted fifteen of them, sentenced eight of those to die, and hanged six of them on one day. Over the course of his career in Fort Smith, Parker sentenced 160 people to hang, of those 79 actually were executed on the gallows. Judge Parker represented the only real law the rough and tumble frontier bordertown had at the time. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

Arkansas 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Fort Smith	Arkansas	United States
Population	80,268	2,673,400	281,421,906
Median age	35.3	36	35.3
Median age for Male	33.7	34.6	34
Median age for Female	36.9	37.4	36.5
Households	32,398	1,042,696	105,480,101
Household population	78,278	2,599,492	273,643,273
Average household size	2.42	2.49	2.59
Families	20,647	732,261	71,787,347
Average family size	3.03	2.99	3.14
Housing units	35,341	1,173,043	115,904,641
Occupied units	32,398	1,042,696	105,480,101
Vacant units	2,943	130,347	10,424,540

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Latitude: 35.368691 -- Longitude: -94.398737

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