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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 [...]