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Rock for Roots: a free environmental concert in Atlantic Station

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Looking for an easy way to go green? Check out Rock for Roots – a free, all-ages, outdoor environmental concert featuring live music performances from Atlanta-native Shawn Mullins, emerging bands Alpha Rev and Grace Pottery and the Nocturnals, and the new project by music legend Chrissie Hynde, JP Chrissie and the Fairground Boys. The purpose is to highlight a real and ongoing commitment to renewable energy in Georgia as well as a celebration of Atlanta’s rich heritage in arts and culture with some great musical performances.

The show will take place on a temporary park – 20,000 square feet of sod will be laid in the parking lot and then donated to Atlanta residents on Saturday morning following the event. Also, the carbon offsets that will be available as part of the promotion for this event are “home grown” – they come from Georgia forest land about a hundred miles south of Atlanta.  Specifically, the offsets are purchased from the founder of Five Points Advisors, LLC, John Ramey. Ramey originated and executed one of the largest managed forest carbon offset projects on the Chicago Climate Exchange and has spoken about managed forest carbon offsets, the importance of carbon markets for the timber industry, and the positive social and environmental aspects of offset projects at events for the Georgia Forestry Association.

So mark your calendars for Rock for Roots on September 17th, 2010 at 7 p.m. at Atlantic Station!

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Join Atlanta’s green leaders at the Green Wednesdays presented by the Green Chamber of the South

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

A favorite event of B Green Services, the monthly Green Wednesdays with Green Chamber of the South present a great opportunity to learn from and network with Atlanta’s green leaders. The next event is Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 and will center around a presentation from Weston Solutions, a company that specializes in sustainable integration with business.

  • What: September Green Wednesday
  • When: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 from 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
  • Location: 5 Seasons Westside (map it!)
  • Cost for members: $18 ($28 at the door the day of the event)
  • Cost for non-members: $23 ($33 at the door the day of the event)
  • Presenter: Kim Veal of Weston Solutions

Look for B Green Services there – we try to make it out as often as possible!

Atlanta Earth Hour 2010 is coming this Saturday, March 27th!

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Watch Atlanta go dark for Earth Hour 2010! (photo courtesy of The Daily Green)

Will your house or business be dark this Saturday, March 27th for Earth Hour 2010? Businesses across Atlanta (and the world) are committing to turning off their lights completely for just one hour this year to show what an environmental impact we can all make and to show support for the green movement. Turning off lights and appliances when not in use is one of the simplest eco-friendly steps you can take to help prevent climate change!

So when do you flip the switch? AT 8:30 p.m. local time this Saturday, March 27th, 2010 – where ever you’re located. Find great information on the website www.myearthhour.org and sign up to show your support. Watch the nationwide map change colors as states go green. Georgia is definitely turning green!

Follow Atlanta’s Earth Hour on twitter @EarthHourATL!

Network with other eco-friendly Atlanta businesses during Green Chamber of the South’s Green Wednesdays!

Monday, March 8th, 2010

You have to eat lunch, right? So why not take one lunch a month and join fellow environmental advocates at the Green Chamber of the South’s Green Wednesday? Regularly occurring on the first Wednesday of every month, Green Wednesdays are a great way to network as well as find out the latest in eco-friendly news around Atlanta, updates from major sustainability players, and more! Doors open at 11:45 a.m. and the lunch and program last until 1:30 p.m. Preregistration is required or Price at the door is $2 for members and $30 for non-members.

The past several months have had an impressive array of speakers, including the Director of the Sustainability Division for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Director of Program Development at Southface, Georgia Power, and more! Last Wednesday featured Thatcher Young, the Director of Sustainability for Ignition.

And keep an eye out for B Green Services at Green Wednesdays, too! We try to attend each month. You can get more information on Green Chamber of the South’s website here. See you there!

Race Preparation – Silver Comet Trail is Tomorrow

Friday, October 30th, 2009

We’ve put in quite the effort preparing for the Silver Comet Trail race.  For our flyers, we collected used cardboard, broke it down piece by piece, and meticulously flattened out the seams to make sure it would run through the printer smoothly.  We’ve scoured the local Goodwill stores looking for t-shirts to reuse and print our logo on.  We’ve scouted the trail to make sure we had enough volunteers to cover the route.  And we’ll be up tomorrow at 5 am to make sure it all runs smoothly.  Thanks to all of our volunteers that have helped in the preparation and to all those that will be joining us tomorrow.  And a special thanks to Avie Designs for providing the printing services.  This is our first race effort, and we look forward to many more.

Creative cardboard recycling: printing flyers for B Green Services and the Silver Comet Half-Marathon

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

For the Silver Comet Half-Marathon, we printed flyers on recycled cardboard. Up top is the cutting process, second is the printing and trimming process, and third is the final product (showing a couple printed sides and couple original cardboard sides)

For the Silver Comet Half-Marathon, we printed flyers on recycled cardboard. Up top is the cutting process, second is the printing and trimming process, and third is the final product (showing a couple printed sides and couple original cardboard sides)

This past week has been a busy one at B Green Services preparing for race recycling this coming Saturday, October 31st, at the Silver Comet Half-Marathon! In addition to gathering the cardboard recycling containers, coordinating volunteers, and getting silkscreens made for printing t-shirts, we’ve been working on creating unique flyers to go in 2,000 racer’s goodie bags. In the spirit of recycling, we decided to send out a call for cardboard boxes to friends, family, and co-workers asking for thin pieces, like cereal boxes, frozen pizza boxes, granola bar boxes, etc.with the intention of opening them all up and printing on the blank side. Which is exactly what we did.

After a few loose calculations, we figured we would need roughly 300+ boxes to accomplish our mission of printing 2,000 flyers on the blank insides. As the cardboard started pouring in, we started cutting it down to printable sizes. It was amazing to have so many people pitch in their recyclables to help us out – and even better that we could skip the steps of recycling the cardboard to make new paper and simply print on existing materials! The cutting and smoothing of our printing surfaces did entail an intense night of beer, pizza, cutting boards, rulers, and paper-folders, which we accomplished with the help of Angela, Erin, Rod, and Jenny.

Once the cardboard was all cut down to size, we utilized the printing services of Avis, the owner of the stationary company Avie Designs. Turns out, she has a fancy printer that could print on cardboard (something FedEx Office wasn’t even able to do). It took two more nights of feeding each piece of cardboard in by hand into two different printers, followed by the final step of cutting them down into individual flyers. Thanks to Avis, her husband Vince, and Heather for helping with that stage of the process!

We’re excited with the end result! And got them all to the race director on time to have them stuffed into 2,000 goodie bags tomorrow night. So, if you’re running in the 2009 Silver Comet Half-Marathon, please take a quick second to check out our recycled cardboard flyers before recycling it with the rest of the race flyers you got. We put some love into those!

And if you’re interested in volunteering with us, please email recycling@bgreenservices.com. Here’s to many more races to come!

Oh yes, and this is what it says:

Did you know that a runner uses an average of 4 plastic water bottles during one half-marathon?

and that it takes one plastic bottle 1,000 years to decompose?

that’s about 8 million years for today’s race alone.

thank you for recycling!

B Green Services, proud sponsor of the Silver Comet Races’ recycling