LEED uses the 500 mile radius as the benchmark for local materials. I don’t know why they picked that number. But it is as good as any I guess. 500 is what you could cover in one long day if you were really hauling it. By car, that is…. I don’t think you want more […]
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Join us for our Spring Open House Tour! In its seventh annual tour, GreenHomeNYC offers the public a unique glimpse at the inner workings and design details comprising exemplar Green buildings in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Guests on the tours will be hosted by the dedicated sustainability practitioners of these buildings, such as their expert
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Building a green kitchen has a lot of considerations. Energy efficiency of appliances, smart counters and of course the cabinets. In Brooklyn a main consideration is making a nice kitchen in a small space. We are designing our green kitchen in the Brooklyn Green Showhouse with a modern style. This will offset the very probable
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I grew up in Spain so our job site tends to have a lot of Spanish speakers. But if they are speaking Spanish at work and at home they have no way of learning English. They have the skills in terms of green building but they lack the communication skills to be able to sell
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From a chat list: FSC is a fraud. Unreliable at best, false and fraudulent at worst. Don’t take my word for it–just ask some of the FSC-certified timber corporations–Tembec, Precious Woods, et al. Go to the Rainforest Foundation UK web site. There are a host of environmental non-profits fighting the FSC–even Rainforest Action Network, who
This web site has some cool stuff. It is called Conservation Technology and has a very sensible approach to building green. They really get it.
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I was checking out some cool plant pottery at this site PedlersWaggon.com. The pottery holds water and lets it out slowly, keeping the plants fresh during times of no rain. Very cool. And then I noticed on the shopping cart page a little note that said: “We ask that wherever you may live to refrain
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‘We learned that a product doesn’t sell just because you’re trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.” Jerry Greenfield of Ben & Jerry’s, on their “Peace Pop” product that flopped. This is an important point for those of
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The Green Builder Magazine is slick. The magazine certainly isn’t green with it’s glossy pages and radiant colors. Whoever is behind it appears to have good funding. Or they are really proffessional. Their staff is large and their sponsors are too – Dupont, Home Depot, Whirlpool. Mainstream of Green Magazine The magazine has good content
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Home Energy Magazine is a mag for those green builders who believe the world can be saved through a more energy efficient home. It’s the mechanics and not really the people that will save us. Their magazine is full of reviews and pictures of houses without people. No people to be seen anywhere. Lots of
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