Great Kitchens is a special edition magazine put out by Taunton. They do the Fine Homebuilding mag. Great Kitchens is a good source of kitchen ideas. The one thing is that if you are renovating a kitchen in Brooklyn and NY your sense of scale is way off. They had a section on “Small Kitchens” …
Our Brooklyn Green Show House has doubled up joists in the roof in anticipation of a heavy green roof. I’m talking with my friends Atom and Lori, who are publishing a book on DYI green roofs in Brooklyn. We are seeing if they can install the roof on the show house as part of their …
This natural Building Colloguium, hosted by Peaceweavers, I really think is great. No continuing education credits. No high-power, big-project architectural, engineering, interior designing firm reps to hobnob with. No suits, no ties, no shiny shoes. Sleep in a tent, eat vegan food. Learn about things like strawbale, cob, cordwood, timber framing, straw-clay infill, permaculture, community-supported …
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GreenRoofs.org is my favorite green roof resource on the web. Run by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities the web site is full of useful info. If you ever wanted to put a green roof on your New York home then that should be the first place to look. When we are researching the best way …
The web site and group called Clean Gowanus Now! has a url of .org, which leads you to think it is a non proffit with community based objectives. But the site and the group are a scam. The group has these following entities behind it: Africa-Israel, U.S.A. (Involved with the Scarano creation at 340 Bond …
This just out: Green Business is Booming. I agree. Eco Brooklyn is getting almost more jobs than we can handle. From the wire: The Pew Charitable Trusts has conducted the first-ever hard count across all 50 states of the actual jobs, companies and venture capital investments that supply the growing market demand for environmentally friendly …
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This just out: Green workers are doing well. I would have to agree it’s good to be in green business right now. The only stress I have is growing pains. From the wire: The newly published, inaugural Carbon Salary Survey, is one one the first studies to provide detailed information about professionals working in the …
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When buying insulation for those tired Brooklyn and NY brownstones one of the big considerations is the embodied energy the insulation has. The May/June issue of Home Energy Magazine has a great article where they discuss the various types of insulation. In the article they lay out their findings on the embodied energy of the …
If you are a homeowner in Brooklyn or NY and get it into your mind that you want to install radiant flooring yor first step will be to do some research on the web. Several hours later you will most likely leave your computer in a confused daze of information overload and conflicting blog posts. …
Yesterday, right after finishing my last post about waterproofing membranes for green roofs, I got an interesting e-mail from a friend that I went to graduate school with. She is professionally involved in the green building industry and I contacted her for information on waterproofing membranes for green roofs when I first began investigating options …
