Mission
Green Habitats promotes sustainable building, supporting research and educational programs to design and build housing that conserves water and energy.
Founders
Green Habitats Foundation, Inc. was founded by John Lie-Nielsen, Real Estate and Technology entrepreneur with the encouragement of wife Debra Lie-Nielsen and "Green" pioneer Tim Buffkin.
Green Habitats appoints Lane Duncan, AIA as Trustee
ATLANTA, GA (July, 2008)— Green Habitats Foundation, Inc, a non-profit organization that promotes sustainable building, has named Lane Duncan, AIA, as a Trustee.
In his role as a Trustee for Green Habitats Foundation, Inc, Duncan will advise on sustainable design and building to conserve water and energy
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GA Tech leads nations most ambitious solar energy attempt
With energy costs rising as fast as global-warming concerns heat up, it's one thing to talk about the challenge.
It's quite another to do something about it.
Here, in the heart of the Sunbelt South, many are giving a promising solution called solar energy the "college try" – and then some. On the campus of Georgia Tech, upward of 130 present and past students have put up, from scratch, an experimental facility called the Solar Decathlon house. It's a "learning laboratory" with "souped-up" technology, as described by Russell Gentry, a Georgia Tech professor who oversaw it's construction, and it adds up to one of America's most ambitious and sophisticated projects aimed at harnessing energy from the sun.
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