Laura and Rutherford Seydel extended their generous hospitality to welcome Denise Quarles, the Director of Sustainability for the City of Atlanta. With a who's who of Atlanta's sustainability leadership including: Gwen Keyes Fleming, EPA Director District 4; Suzanne Burnes, Sustainable Atlanta; Sally Bethea, Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper; Dennis Creech, Southface; Alexis Chase, Georgia Interfaith Power and Light; Colleen Kiernan, Sierra Club - Georiga; Erin Croom, Georgia Organics; Madeline Reamy, Earthshare of Georgia; Leesa Carter, USGBC - Georgia; Marci Reed, AIA Atlanta and National Earthshare Board...to only name a few! Denise and the Mayor inspired and "held choir practice" as they geared up to reengage the sustainability community and City for a renewal of the Power to Change Campaign. Read from top to bottom to read in order.

Jay Gilbert, one of the three co-founders of B Lab, was here for a two day event at Emory's Goizueta Business School. B Lab is the non-profit that manages and fosters B Corporations. B Corporations give a natural framework for sustainability companies who are looking to put their company in the ultra-form of transparency. It is a truly inspiring new way to business. One that many in the sustainability world will recognize immediately.

DeKalb County became the proud recipient of the first public Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Fueling station in the state in 20 years. A bevy of state and local politicians attended the ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate Georgia's efforts to reduce it's dependency on foreign oil. To read in order start at the bottom and work your way up. To see the photos you can visit our Facebook page.

Sustainable Atlanta Round Table had there annual Georgia Legislative Update. Panel was lead by Will Wingate, Vice President of the Georgia Conservancy. Senator Tolleson of Perry, Minority Leader Rep. Stacey Abrams, Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield, and Chairman Rep Jon Burns all joined the discussion. There are two groups of tweets. Southeast Green's immediately below and after that the tweets from  other folks in the auidence.  To read in order start both from the bottom up. Below that we have our latest episode of SEGreen Mobile with Will Wingate.

The Green Chamber of the South hosted it's monthly Green Wednesdays luncheon. Guest for the day was Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols. Read them from bottom to top to read in order.

Plasmet is a recycler of shredded cars and is entering the e-waste business. It's a little known facet of the recycling industry but they are diverting hundreds or thousands of pounds from landfills. It was a fascinating tour. You can see the pictures on FB.

Plus sized superstar model Emme was hosted by Laura Seydel to discuss her latest mission which was to encourage people to be embrace true women's beauty and sustainability. This ended up being a fabulous melange of women-run businesses. Very cool stuff. Read from top to bottom.

Hosted by Laura and Rutherford Seydel, National Director of the Xerces Society will be talking about the importance of protecting our pollinators. Read from top to bottom to read in order.

The Department of sustainability of the city of Atlanta and clean cities Atlanta recently presented to a legislative committee hearing at the Georgia state capitol. All the major players from the electric vehicle community were there to present and show support in educating the state legislators. Normally when SEGreen tweets we only cover the presentation, but we were so interested in the lack of knowledge being displayed by the legislators SEGreen felt like the questions were almost more interesting than the presentation. We've also started to add video interviews to the Tweet Diaries. videos can be seen at the bottom. To read tweets in order start the bottom up.To see the pictures from the event visit out Southeast Green Facebook page.