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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Eco Brooklyn is listing itself in GreenPeople.org because this is the kind of customer we want to work with. 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 [...] 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 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 [...] 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 [...] Eco Brooklyn is a member of Co-op America. They are a great ordanization full of resources. Their tag line is: Economic Action for a Just Planet. From their web site: Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the [...] Eco Brooklyn is a member of Sustainable Business Network New York City. SBNYC is a local network of BALLE. Both networks encourage ethical sustainable business. One of their big concepts is the triple bottom line – People, Planet, Profit. The other businesses in SBNYC tend to be green oriented, lots of building related businesses. [...] As a licensed real estate broker I wanted to get as much ecological training as possible in the real estate field. The typical broker training, although extensive, only touches on the green aspect of real estate and I wanted more. After looking around it seemed that the EcoBroker® accreditation program seemed like the [...] Eco Brooklyn Inc is a Member of The Pattern Language Association, founded by Christopher Alexander. Christopher Alexander is an architect with wonderful views on how structures and communities are built. He is most famous for his book “A Patter Language” where he shows how everything has a pattern and when builders use these patters [...] Eco Brooklyn Inc. is “Licensed – Bonded – Certified – Insured” as a home improvement contractor in the State of New York. To become a contractor in NY you need to pay fees (aprox $800), buy insurance (aprox $9,000 plus), fill out a lot of forms and take a test. Making sure your contractor [...] Getting a Broker’s License in NY is not something you do overnight. It actually can take years. First you need to become a real estate agent, which is about 40 hours of training. You work under a broker until you get enough points. You can get points by doing real estate related transactions such [...] I think it is important to be part of organizations like the US Green Building Council. They are the guys behind LEED certification. All I had to do was pay $300….and anybody can become a member. The money goes towards the good work they are doing. There are chapter organizations and other benefits which [...] I am happy that my 22 2nd street building is the 1st highlighted green project on Brownstoner.com! As far as I know Brownstoner.com is the most popular real estate blog in the world, but my non-NY friend quickly pointed out, “You New Yorkers always think you are the center of the universe.” Either way [...] Eco Brooklyn Inc. is an alternative real estate development company offering services in GREEN CONSTRUCTION and REAL ESTATE. We work in the following mediums: Recycled Flooring and Timber Radiant Heat Fiberglass Windows Foam Insulation Solar Water Heating Solar Electricity Green Roofs Energy Audits High Efficiency Boilers Heat On Demand Boilers Ecological Counters Soapstone Fireplaces [...] |
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