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	<title>ECO BROOKLYN INC. - Green Design/Build Firm &#187; Build It Forward</title>
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		<title>Eco Brooklyn Green Building Terms</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Eco Brooklyn job sites we have certain green building concepts that we use. They are mostly coined by me to help the crew and clients understand what Eco Brooklyn&#8217;s core goals are. They are easy rallying points to help us all stay on track.
These terms can be searched on this site for more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green From The Ground Up &#8211; Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The book Green from the Ground Up, Sustainable, Healthy, and Energy-Efficient Home Construction, offers everything its title promises, and yet that very same title shows how wrong the authors are. It is 330 pages full of intelligent &#8220;green&#8221; building techniques covering everything from efficient insulation techniques to natural ventilation.
The book is a fantastic overview of pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn Wood Floor Revival</title>
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		<comments>http://ecobrooklyn.com/brooklyn-wood-floor-revival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We did two jobs over the past week on wood floors. They started out really ugly. And they ended up amazing. We finished them with 100% pure tung oil so they are really natural.
The first job was to remove some paint that a previous owner, in their infinite and unfathomable intelligence, had painted over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eco Brooklyn is Featured in NY Times Blog</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/eco-brooklyn-featured-ny-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article on Eco Brooklyn in today&#8217;s NY Times Blog.
http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/sustainable-brownstone-101/
The general gist is that green building can be affordable. They say Eco Brooklyn &#8220;practices guerrilla green-building techniques&#8221;  to achieve this, which involves a lot of dumpster diving and salvage.
We try to set up more formal ways of collecting material but it is not easy. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zero Brownstone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term Zero Brownstone is an idea I came up with during our experimentation of making the greenest brownstone renovation possible.
The Zero Brownstone is based on two concepts during the deconstruction and renovation of the brownstone as well as in the finished home:
Zero Waste and Zero Consumption 

During Construction:
Zero Waste - During the deconstruction (aka demolition) process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Building gets better with age</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I call myself a green builder and as such am constantly thinking what that title means. Possibly one of the best definitions of green building I can think of is this: does it age well?
Green building is meant to be sustainable, meaning it can be repeated on an ongoing basis. Clear cutting trees is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Building is More Dependant on Natural Cycles</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/green-building-dependant-natural/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many differences between renovating a Brooklyn brownstone the old fashioned way and doing a green renovation is the difference in cycles.
A normal brownstone renovation is very similar to all post-industrial activity: MAN OVER NATURE. And ever since the &#8220;triumph of science&#8221; we have been able to overpower the earths natural cycles and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering America</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/recovering-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please read to the end: there is an invitation for designers and architects to submit work to Eco Brooklyn.
After hearing that Malcolm Wells, pioneer of underground architecture, had died I bought a couple of his books and read up on him.
I regret not meeting him when he was alive. He had a great sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Building Directories</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/green-building-directories/</link>
		<comments>http://ecobrooklyn.com/green-building-directories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of &#8216;green&#8217; product listings and databases on the web; Greenspec at BuildingGreen.com and Pharos, for example, but most (if not all) of them require a paid annual membership. One good source of free information on green products is Oikos.com. More than 2,500 companies are listed in a searchable database.
Others are 
WNC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malcolm Wells, Champion of ‘Gentle Architecture,’ Dies at 83</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/malcolm-wells-champion-%e2%80%98gentle/</link>
		<comments>http://ecobrooklyn.com/malcolm-wells-champion-%e2%80%98gentle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To leave the land no worse than you found it&#8221; is the manifesto of Gentle Architecture, a concept coined by Architect Malcolm Wells, who recently died.
He made an impression on the green movement of the 1970&#8217;s and his work is getting attention with the new green building movement we are currently having.
There are many ways [...]]]></description>
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