August 20, 2026 12:15 pm

Josh Marks - Georgians for the Okefenokee

Guest

Josh Marks is the Founder and Managing Partner of GreenMark Law, LLC, a boutique law firm and

consultancy that assists corporations, NGOs, and academic institutions with renewable energy,

environmental compliance, natural resource protection, real estate development, and sustainability.

He is also the President of Georgians for the Okefenokee, a state-wide organization focused on

protecting the Okefenokee Swamp from proposed strip mining along its eastern boundary.

Prior to GreenMark, Josh was the Co-Chair of the Sustainability Practice Group at Parker Poe Adams

& Bernstein, a 280-attorney national firm, where he advised utility-scale solar companies with project

due diligence, development, contracting and acquisitions; assisted corporations, trade associations

and universities with starting and navigating their sustainability journeys and ESG compliance; and

numerous corporate entities with all manner of compliance issues.

Prior to Parker Poe, Josh chaired the environmental and sustainability practice group at a leading real

estate and environmental law boutique in Atlanta, where among other projects he served as outside

general counsel to the largest private landowner in the United States and assisted utility-scale solar

and wind project developers with project due diligence and implementation.

Earlier in his career, Josh worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of

Regional Counsel in Atlanta and clerked for the Honorable Wendy Shoob in Georgia’s Fulton County

Superior Court.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Josh held a variety of environmental advocacy, public policy, and political

campaign roles, one of which involved leading the successful effort to protect the Okefenokee

Swamp from strip mining in the 1990s.

Josh and his wife, Hedy, live in Sandy Springs and are parents to three children ages 25, 22, and 17


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