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 …
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 …
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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! Green Contracting NYC Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corp (SBIDC) would like to introduce you to training and professional opportunities …
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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 …
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 AP certification process is a …
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 living quarters …
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”. Idealist – A Nonprofit Organization 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 …
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Eco Brooklyn is a proud member of The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. From their site. What is The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA)? 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 …
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