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Upcoming Speaking Announcement
Green Home NYC is featuring Gennaro Brooks-Church as a guest speaker. He will be speaking on two key concepts he coined: Build It Forward and the Zero Brownstone. More info below on the event next week.
August forum: Working with contractors (AIA credit)August’s forum will discuss working with contractors in both residential and commercial projects. Along [...]
Eco Brooklyn is Featured in NY Times Blog
Here is an article on Eco Brooklyn in today’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 “practices guerrilla green-building techniques” 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 [...]
GreenHomeGuide.com Featured Gennaro Brooks-Church
GreenHomeGuide.com featured Gennaro Brooks-Church in their “Ask A Pro” Section.
To read the dialog click here.
Anatomy of a Brownstone Event This Spring
The NY City College of Technology does this cool seminar series called Anatomy of a Brownstone. This spring I’ll be one of their speakers. For more info see below.
Spring 2010 Offering: Layouts and Lifestyles
Course Code: BRNS 032
Date: Saturday 3/13 1 – 5 pm
Fee: $40
Directions: click here
When it’s time to renovate [...]
Living Building Challenge and Omega Institute
I was just on a radio program where we discussed with the CEO of the Omega institute their new building that is built along the Cascadian Living Building Challenge guidelines, possibly the best green building guideline I know of.
Check it out here
Eco Brooklyn Featured on Reclaimed Home
Reclaimed Home released their second part tour of the Brooklyn Show Green Show House.
Gennaro Brooks-Church is a Sustainable Building Advisor
I just graduated from the nine month training by the National Sustainable Building Advisor Program. The program is for working professionals so the benefits of the class come just as much from the content as from other students.
The students were construction leaders from many fields: HVAC, environmental remediation, architecture, furniture, design and a lot more. [...]
Eco Brooklyn Has New T-shirts!
Eco Brooklyn just got a new shipment of T-shirts. All sizes all colors. Bought from garment district rejects, although we can’t see any flaws in them. $20. You have to come by the show house to get one. We don’t ship.
They say “Eco Brooklyn – Build It Forward”. On the top you have greenery [...]
Reclaimed Home interviews Eco Brooklyn
ReclaimedHome.com came by and interviewed Gennaro Brooks-Church at the Brooklyn Green Show House. He talks about the new template for building a Brownstone.
Below is the video they took while I did a tour.
They also took some cool pictures.
Check out their site. They are doing some great stuff.
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Daily News Mentions Eco Brooklyn
Today’s issue of the NY Daily News mentioned Eco Brooklyn and quoted Gennaro Brooks-Church. They posted the below pic and had this to say about Eco Brooklyn and Gennaro:
Gennaro Brooks-Church and his 5-year-old daughter always wash their hands after they go canoeing on the murky green water. A green builder and real-estate broker, Church is [...]
Eco Brooklyn named Green Hero of the Week
We got a nice plug in The L Magazine – we were named Green Hero of the Week.
Pentagon starts using LED Lighting
In a press release from Jan 2009 it is stated that the pentagon is installing more than 4,200 recessed LED luminaries in Wedge 5.They are expecting a payback of less than four years with a reduction of 22% in overall electricity usage. A total reduction of 140 tons of CO2 per year. They even found [...]
Eco Brooklyn Interviewed at Examiner.com
Christa Avampato is a NY Business Strategies blogger for Examiner.com and she asked me to share my views on green building and the philosophy of Eco Brooklyn.
Christa interviews NY business owners with a focus on entrepreneurship. It was good answering her questions. I saw Eco Brooklyn through her eyes and realized that it is very [...]
USA Today Picked Up Eco Brooklyn
Looks like USA Today picked up one of the events we are doing at the Eco Brooklyn Green Show House.
It is of a green roof course we are doing.
Green Brooklyn – A 10 Year View
Here is my take on green building in Brooklyn over the next 5-10 years. It is actually a lot wider than Brooklyn, but that is my focus.
Rising fuel costs will drive people back into the city, this means there will be an influx of people into Brooklyn. This will keep housing prices more elevated than [...]
Green Home NYC Article
Green Home NYC brought a tour to the Brooklyn Show House the other day and did a great writeup on the visit.
It talks about our company’s concept of “Build It Forward”.
upcoming Green House Tour in Brooklyn
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Green Buildings Open House on May 9th
Greetings!
Hello NESEA members! Bring a friend and join us for our Spring Open House Tour.
GreenHomeNYC has moved our Open House from October to May. For the next 8 hours buy one registration at full price ($25) and get up to four registrations for the same tour [...]
Green Tax Accountant
As a green contractor in Brooklyn we need to be very aware of current tax rebates and incentives since it has an impact on the cost of any job. And the rebates are constantly changing. To stay on top of them we work closely with Steve Goldberg, a Tax Consultant who specializes in this area.
Steve [...]
Our Intern Policy
As an educational outreach green building company we are always combining education with real world green building jobs in Brooklyn. This means we have unpaid interns training on a job site that is making profit for the company.
This is a tricky situation. On one hand the interns have very little experience and need a lot [...]
Job Opening for PR Person Passionate about green
We are looking for a part time PR person to help our innovative green building company in Brooklyn. We are looking for somebody living locally with a passion for Brooklyn community, green building, the triple bottom line of People/Profit/Planet and who wants to become a PR specialist in this area.
Job includes:
- collecting and organizing a [...]
Seeking Green Builders
Are you passionate about green building? Do you have building skills (metalwork, carpentry, electric, plumbing…)? Do you want to learn more in this area? Do you like to use unusual materials to build in innovative ways? Do you look at a product off the shelf and ask, “How can I built that myself better instead [...]
Industrial Nanotech and Eco Brooklyn Partnership
Here is a press release that Industrial Nanotech sent out. It was picked up by a lot of news wires and generated calls to see the Show House.
Abstract:
Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets: INTK) announced today that the Company’s patented Nansulate® nanotechnology-based coatings will be showcased in a green technology show house currently being renovated in [...]
Calling All Contractors: Grow Your Business Through Green Contracting!
If they get 12 businesses that would like to take the below class, they can offer it in Brooklyn so that businesses wont have to travel to the bronx, so feel free to spread the word!
Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corp (SBIDC) would like to introduce you to training and professional opportunities offered through the New [...]
Media Contacts
If you are a green builder in Brooklyn you are so much more than a contractor. You are a PR person, educator, nature custodian, community outreach person and social networker.
Doing normal contracting is “easy” in comparison. You post in the yellow pages and get a call. You go in, look at the existing boiler [...]
Gennaro Brooks-Church is a LEED AP
I just passed the LEED AP test.
LEED certification has some benefits. If everyone built along the LEED standards I do think that the world would be a greener place, not so much because LEED is amazing but because people build really badly.
I also have my reservations.
The LEED certification process is a complicated and expensive [...]
Eco Brooklyn is listed in Green People.Org
Eco Brooklyn is listing itself in GreenPeople.org because this is the kind of customer we want to work with.
Eco Brooklyn Featured at MNN.com
Above: A tomato plant growing out of the sidewalk at the green show house. You can’t get more local than that!
MNN.com, a pretty cool “Mother Nature Network” featured Brooklyn as a green destination of the week. Eco Brooklyn was mentioned in the article:
“Brooklyn residents can now stretch out in new green-friendly living quarters through Eco-Brooklyn [...]
Eco Brooklyn is a member of American Solar Energy Society
The American Solar Energy Society has been around since 1954, way before most people even knew what solar was. Visionary is the word.
They also put out a very useful magazine.
Now of course they are huge and respected.
More at ases.org
Eco Brooklyn and Gennaro Brooks-Church is a member of Idealist.org
Eco Brooklyn is a proud member of Idealist.org, which is a great play on “Idea List” and “Idealist”.
In their own words “Idealist is a project of Action Without Borders, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 with offices in the United States and Argentina. Idealist is an interactive site where people and organizations can exchange [...]
Eco Brooklyn is a member of NESEA
Eco Brooklyn is a proud member of The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association.
From their site.
The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) is the nation’s leading regional membership organization focused on promoting the understanding, development, and adoption of energy conservation and non-polluting, renewable energy technologies. For more than thirty years, NESEA has facilitated and enhanced a network of [...]