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	<title>ECO BROOKLYN INC. - Green Design/Build Firm &#187; Design</title>
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		<title>Brooklyn Wood Floor Revival</title>
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		<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>Green Kitchen Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people say green kitchen design they usually mean recycled glass counters or something. But the actual design of the kitchen doesn&#8217;t change much. For me a green kitchen design alters the behavior of the inhabitants so that they better the environment without extra thought or effort.
For example we all know recycling and composting are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waste, Toxic Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deconstruction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I passed by a Manhattan condo renovation and saw they were throwing out good stuff: metal studds and flooring. The contractor told me it was a 3,000 sq.ft. condo that right before the current gut reno it had just been gut renovated!
It had high end everything: Poggen Pohl German kitchen, slate counters, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insulation Values For Selected Materials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 02:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The table below gives R values of various building materials. To obtain a wall or ceiling assembly R-value you must add the r-values of the individual components together (this won&#8217;t give you an entirely accurate R value if you&#8217;ve got thermal bridging but it is good enough for rough estimates).
If we are building a passive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Natural Exterior Paint</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been experimenting with exterior wood paint with some great results.
The research is based on the traditional Scandinavian red paint, which is a base of linseed oil with various things added. One description:
Centuries ago, European farmers sealed the wood on their barns with an oil, often linseed oil, which was a sort of tawny-colored oil made from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea of Plastic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a great animation of the &#8220;trash islands&#8221; floating in the Pacific Ocean. Billions of pieces of plastic are collected by the currents and  corralled  into unfathomably large floating garbage heaps. People like to compare them to the size of Texas. I saw one person saying it was as much as three times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn Brownstone Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a design our architect intern Matthew Pethley sketched up for a row house we are designing in Bed Stuy. it is not what we eventually designed for them on but I wanted to share it because the ideas are really cool. It would make for a beautiful space. It addresses the issue that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthship Videos</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/earthship-videos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the latest earthship videos sent to me from the folks at earthship.com
Comments on earthships and the Copenhagen summit.

Here is another cool one:

The one peeve I have with this last video is &#8220;What the world needs now is one Billion earthsips, immediately.&#8221; That sounds too much like old school consumer thinking. We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earthship</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Reynolds is one of my favorite visionaries. He is doing what Eco Brooklyn aims to do with eco brownstone renovations in Brooklyn &#8211; Build net zero homes out of trash &#8211; only he does it with earth ships in the Midwest and beyond.
Check it out. Really cool. These are the only justifiable new construction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Construction Should be Outlawed</title>
		<link>http://ecobrooklyn.com/construction-outlawed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gennaro Brooks-Church</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s really not much more to say. I could explain why I guess but [...]]]></description>
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