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Solar powered attic fans
The following info to chew on was compiled by Martin Holladay, former associate editor at the Journal of Light Construction, former editor of Energy Design Update, currently senior editor for Green Building Advisor. GreenSpec recently delisted powered attic ventilation fans, to which the powered attic fan manufacturers have taken great exception.
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Vernal Equinox
Happy Vernal Equinox!!!!
Today at 10:33 PDT, 13:33 EDT, 18:33 CET is the Spring Equinox.
The moment when the relation of the Sun and the Earth are in equipoise.
Our planet hangs in perfect balance for one brief flash of a second…all balanced, the day and night everywhere, for all of us in San Francisco, [...]
Turning Work Down
I had an interesting call just now. A developer called me wanting me to go check out a brownstone he had just bought and wanted to renovate. He buys a lot of properties, renovates and sells. He didn’t know about Eco Brooklyn but somebody had given him my number and said we did good work.
I [...]
Food Industry is bigger than oil
We are destroying ourselves and the planet with our current eating process.
The solution is simple:
LESS MEAT
LESS JUNK
MORE PLANTS
Repeat it over and over again with each bite.
New Construction Should be Outlawed
I think new construction is to building like heroin is to health. It should be outlawed as a threat to our well-being. There are enough old buildings for us to renovate. New construction is a needless act of arrogance and self destruction.
There’s really not much more to say. I could explain why I guess but [...]
Beekeeping in NY is Legal!
Beekeeping has just been legalized in New York. This is great news and the result of hard work from the beekeeping community. Let there bee light! Sweet!
More here
World Energy Consumption Per Capita
Here is a graph that shows some of the highest energy consumers and lowest per capita. Sobering.
Click on image to enlarge
Anatomy of a Brownstone Event tomorrow
The NY City College of Technology does this cool seminar series called Anatomy of a Brownstone. I’ll be one of their speakers. For more info see below. It is tomorrow.
Spring 2010 Offering: Layouts and Lifestyles
Course Code: BRNS 032
Date: Saturday 3/13 [...]
Go Green Expo NYC
Go Green Expo NYC is coming up next week. See below to get the $10 special rate. I went last year and it was ok. It is really a subsection of Architectural Digest Home Design Show, although I’m sure it will be bigger this year.
Go Green Expo NYC in my opinion is profit based. Green [...]
insatiable hunger of growth vs nature
There is a myth in Western society that growth is a positive thing. If your company grows it is considered a sign of success. Growing ones wealth is thought to be a universal desire.
But growth is an energy without morality. We are the ones that make it moral. It is not good or bad. Or [...]