How Georgia became America's green-manufacturing capital

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How Georgia became America's green-manufacturing capital

Catherine Boudreau for BI; Alyssa Powell/BIBIWhen Robert Howey joined the US Navy right after high school, he didn't expect to return home anytime soon.Howey, now 30, grew up in northwestern Georgia near Dalton, a small city known as the "carpet capital of the world." If he'd stayed in the area, he likely would have pursued a career in the carpet industry."That's one of the reasons why I wanted to leave," Howey told Business Insider.Howey spent …