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Chrongram Magazine mentioned Eco Brooklyn in a recent article on green roofs. It is below: A close-up of the green roof installed at the Mohonk Preserve Visitor’s Center in Gardiner by Aurora Landscape Design. by Gregory Schoenfeld, April 27, 2012 When Shawn McCloskey returned home to his native Kingston in 2000, things were [...] As NY Green Contractors, we work hard to turn NYC green and we love any opportunity to share our labors with the public because it spreads awareness of green building. The Earth Day New York organization has created a great way for New Yorkers to celebrate Earth Day as well as learn more about [...] Finally, a way to pursue the “triple bottom line” (people, planet and profits) with legal backing! It is called the Benefit Corporation (as opposed to a normal C or S Corporation for example). Signed into NY legislation by Governor Cuomo the new law allows businesses to be recognized and filed a for more than their [...] Here is a MUST SEE event. It is an inspiring creative synergy of art spread over several evenings to raise momentum against the very serious threat of hydrofracking. The Irondale Arts Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn is putting it on and it starts in a couple of weeks. The show’ll be different every night: it incorporates artwork, live [...] Eco Brooklyn has partnered up with the NYC Materials Exchange Development Program, a great non-profit that keeps reusable materials out of the trash by connecting people with unwanted materials to others who can reuse them. The NYCMEDP runs a number of ongoing service, outreach, and research programs. The NYC Waste Match, for example, is [...] Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend a teleclass hosted by Marissa Feinberg, founder of Green Spaces, on writing pitches for social entrepreneurs and non-profiteers. Large corporations pay premium prices for professional PR services. We’re a small New York green builder with a big mission: to turn New York green. Our job is a [...] Come check out our Open House and Blowerdoor test at our Harlem Passive House renovation. When: Friday, November 11, 2011, 4:30 PM Where: 156 West 130th Street, Manhattan. The New York Passive House community is kicking off the weekend of International Open Passive House days at Ecobrooklyn’s project in Harlem. The house is well [...] On 10/11/11 Eco Brooklyn, a green builder and supporter of a better America and world, went down to the Financial district to check out Occupy Wall Street. Nearly 30 days ago, a diverse group of citizens took to the street in NYC, and marched down to Zuccotti Park, formerly “Liberty Plaza Park”, placed in [...] Climate Week NYC offers up to 8 events a day. And many of them relate to green building in unexpected ways. What better time of the year to let your green out? Climate Week NYC offers such a wide variety of events at varying locations and times to fit everyone’s interests and schedules. For [...] The web site Planet Brooklyn did a nice article on Eco Brooklyn. The author of the article Rochana has a very clear writing style that is great to read. Check it out here. Networx.com featured Eco Brooklyn on their blog. They flew a reporter to Brooklyn all the way from Virginia or somewhere to meet us. They are looking to increase their green building content so they sought Eco Brooklyn out. Check out their blog post on Eco Brooklyn here. 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 [...] 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 [...] GreenHomeGuide.com featured Gennaro Brooks-Church in their “Ask A Pro” Section. To read the dialog click here. 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 [...] 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 Reclaimed Home released their second part tour of the Brooklyn Show Green Show House. 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] 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: Here, Gennaro Brooks- Church is renovating his home, on 2nd Street in Brooklyn, here with his 5 and a half year old daughter Saomi [...] We got a nice plug in The L Magazine – we were named Green Hero of the Week. 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. 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 [...] 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”. FYI Sign Up Now. 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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