Here, by the way, is a photo of our installation: Ever since I began courting my wife in her college-town of Atlanta, GA (where there is an IKEA), I’ve had a small love affair with the furniture company.  Last week, we had new furniture from IKEA delivered and installed at our New Orleans office. We actually hired a great little local company to pick up the furniture from Houston, deliver it to us and then assemble everything ( Bluebag ). Through experience I’ve learned that there are folks all around the country who will assemble IKEA furniture for you.  MORE >>

The mechanic will also travel extensively — about one week a month — around the South and Southeast, especially to Atlanta. For the newly unemployed, life can sometimes feel like a train wreck. In which case, the best advice we can give is to straighten things out a bit, get back on track, and keep chuggin’ along. And in this week’s installment of the SmartVan’s regular Job of the Week feature, we’ve got the perfect position to help you do just that. In fact, the position we’re talking about does exactly that. Like, literally! The R.J. plus extensive travel. MORE >>

Greater Atlanta Area 8,720. Architecture in Bermuda 1939 – before LinkedIn existed Architects and Planners have been busy creating profiles on LinkedIn. The latest statistics (as of May 16, 2012) show there are 1,128,581 LinkedIn profiles in the Architecture and Planning Industry. For those readers interested in knowing just where all these profiles are in the world, here’s a breakdown: United States 337,376. India 69,140. Italy 63,357. United Kingdom 59,815. Brazil 50,974. Spain 43,815. Netherlands 29.585. Canada 29,339. France 27,700. Mexico 24,250. Australia 23,352. MORE >>

Los Angeles, Atlanta and Seattle are the first three focus areas for the program that aims to shed 20% of building energy use by 2020. Seattle will set the mold for better building. Signaling an important vision for Seattle, President Obama has selected the city as a launchpad for his Better Buildings Challenge. According to the Seattle PI , the city will join forces with a number of local businesses to promote energy efficiency in the city’s buildings. group of civic leaders, working with federal officials, helped to form the Seattle 2030 District. How do we produce energy? MORE >>

cities, including Atlanta, are warming at more than twice the rate of the planet as a whole — a rate that is mostly attributable to land use change. :: aribra :: sustainable, development Home about services contributors contact 11 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments Land Use Change an Overlooked Cause of Global Warming climate change land use Real Estate Urbanism Tweet Share Email Sharebar Tweet Share Email Copenhagen is fast approaching and little conversation has been given to the role land use has in reducing greenhouse emissions. “Across the U.S. “Most large U.S. Congress. MORE >>