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Styrene in Green Roof Medium
A recent study lists Styrene as a possible carcinogen. This is important news since one of Eco Brooklyn’s green roof medium providers, Gaia Soil, has polystyrene as one of its main ingredients. Our concern is that we are installing green roofs in New York with materials that may cause cancer. Years ago when Eco Brooklyn
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Recycling Salvaged Cement Reduces our Carbon Footprint
Construction is conventionally a carbon-intensive industry – especially in a place like Brooklyn where most homes, coffee shops, book stores and restaurants are built primarily with concrete, mortar, brick and stone. Some degree of greenhouse gas emission is inherent in the production of all construction materials, but none more so than the cement which makes
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Small Changes x Large Scale = Big Results.
Small changes on a large scale make a huge impact. This is a simple concept and if applied it will improve the countless number of buildings that make up our total global infrastructure. NYC claims around 975,000 buildings and they account for 79% of this cities green house gas emissions. When it comes to residential
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Understanding SEER Ratings in AC units
Summer in New York is hot and humid and unless the building is really well built it requires air conditioning. We install HVAC systems and always recommend the most energy efficient units, which is currently the Fujitsu 26 SEER Halcyon Inverter mini-split. We are using this unit in the Harlem Passive House job. There will
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NY Times: Styrene and Formaldehyde Carcinogens
The NY Times reported on a recent study claiming Formaldehyde causes cancer. As a New York green builder I read this stuff and roll my eyes. Like, duh! What’s next, a study claiming water makes you wet? Being a green contractor comes with a certain feeling of being a lone voice in the woods. We have been
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Hemp to Remediate New York Garden Soil
Below is an interesting post from The Emerald Triangle News that quotes a major phyto remediation company saying that out of all the plants they have tried hemp is the most effective at removing toxins from soil. Phyto remediation is the process of growing plants on toxic soil to remove the toxins. It is a
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New York Salvaged Flooring
Here is a photo essay of how we salvaged some flooring and reused it. We bought 15,000 square feet of herring bone style mahogany flooring from an office building. The flooring didn’t look too fancy laying in a big pile: They had glued it down previously. We then cut it to make length wise flooring.
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New York Eco Deck Installation
We went by to check on a deck we built in Manhattan last year. It looks good! It was raining which made the deck glisten more. We made it out of salvaged Douglass fir joists from an old building. We sanded them down and oiled them up with natural oils. Check it out:
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