Induction cookers are touted as the most green cooking tool since they consume less electricity. I found this on a wiki and thought it gave an interesting perspective. Unless you go with some of the VERY new and efficient ones you probably aren’t much more efficient than a gas cooker: Induction cookers are getting popular …
“Understanding Whole Systems means looking both larger and smaller than where our daily habits live and seeing clear through our cycles. The result is responsibility, but the process is filled with the constant delight of surprise. Neither the Earth nor our lives are flat. What happened in the 20th century? The idea of self — …
Word on the street is that the Gowanus Canal is going to be designated a Superfund site. The canal is two blocks from the Brooklyn green show house so it is dear to our heart and very clearly part of our ecosystem. The Gowanus is definitely a good candidate for a superfund designation. It is …
Programmable thermostats are sometimes touted as a good way to save money. They are used to turn the heat down in the night when you are sleeping or during the day when you are at work out of the house. But in our green show house in Brooklyn we are not using programmable thermostats. We …
It is cool to be green. Wearing green is the new black. Green power is the new black power. It is cool to be green. But it is important to not let the fad take over the message. Being green, like every other revolution (revolution = full turn), is about moving one rotation up the …
There is a general disagreement in green builders. You have basically two general types (you have a lot of types but these are two big ones). You have the scientist type who thinks that green building is about energy efficiency. Seal up the house, use energy efficient tools, lower the carbon footprint, save the world. …
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All builders create waste. Green builders create a lot less because they reuse, recycle and find others to use their stuff. One of the tricks is finding places or companies that will take your stuff and channel it for another use. Here are some resources from a deconstruction article that ran a couple of years …
Green building is all about energy efficiency, saving precious resources, green roofs and recycled cellulose insulation, right? I would actually say that those things are secondary and that there is a larger philosophy behind green building. Those things are some of the focused methods we carry out the philosophy perhaps but the overall philosophy is …
I love the abundance of energy emerging for green roofs in Brooklyn and New York. Installing a green roof in Brooklyn is the smartest think I can think of. When I go on a Brooklyn rooftop and see all the plane flat roofs I see a possible forest of verdant green and fauna. I see …
I went to the LED light trade show a couple weeks ago. It was way cool. They are making real progress for residential LED lighting. One technology that I especially liked was phosphorescent lenses that convert blue LED into visible light like a normal bulb. This varies from normal LED lights that combine the three …
