Formlua: find your passion, apply green
I love the way people are so inspired by green. The great thing about it is that it can pretty much be applied to anything in your life and make it better. For example as a green contractor in Brooklyn I’m putting a green perspective on Brownstone renovations.
It is such simple yet powerful formlua: [...]
Quality is tied to quality and no longer tied to price
Our budget for the Brooklyn green show house got decimated with this banking crisis. So we don’t really have a budget any more. It is basically as cheap as we can make it.
For our kitchens for example we were going to buy salvaged kitchens, make them in house out of salvaged wood or find [...]
Brownstones are ripe for green renovations
I think the New York and Brooklyn brownstones are ideal candidates for green renovations. They have all the ingredients that make for an easy and powerful green overhaul. I can’t list them without sounding like a sales pitch, but it’s more pride of Brooklyn than me trying to sell anything.
Firstly the greenest thing you could [...]
Green Training Materials
Here are some good PowerPoint from different trainings from the NYC Dept of sustainable Design. You can get a pretty good idea of the course from the slides.
Last time I checked they had interesting material on:
Energy Efficiency in New York City
Energy Efficient & Quality Lighting
Architectural Daylighting in New York City
Commissioning for DDC Projects
LEED & Local [...]
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 [...]