A Benefit Corporation is a new corporate entity offering entrepreneurs and investors the option to build and invest in businesses that meet higher standards of corporate purpose, accountability and transparency. NY Assembly will vote later this week on whether to pass this new entity. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION NOW TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT OF THIS BILL. In a traditional […]
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When people say green kitchen design they usually mean recycled glass counters or something. But the actual design of the kitchen doesn’t change much. For me a green kitchen design alters the behavior of the inhabitants so that they better the environment without extra thought or effort. For example we all know recycling and composting
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Check out this chicken picture. Funny. City Chickens Workshop Series: Introduction to City Chickens Time: June 20, 2010 from 2pm to 4pm Location: Imani Garden Dean Street and Schenectady Avenue, Brooklyn
The NY Dept of Health released the latest figures for cancer in New York State. It is in the form of an interactive map where you can click on an area and see the amount of cancer cases since 2000 as well as the population. Zoom into the Brooklyn area and click the “Identify” button
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The other day I passed by a Manhattan condo renovation and saw they were throwing out good stuff: metal studds and flooring. The contractor told me it was a 3,000 sq.ft. condo that right before the current gut reno it had just been gut renovated! It had high end everything: Poggen Pohl German kitchen, slate
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A few nights ago Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News answered a question about whether the oil disaster would increase the price of oil. He answered that it wouldn’t as the spill was such a small amount of oil relative to actual usage. He said all the oil that has spilled so far is just
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Brac Graywater Systems is the graywater system we have in the Brooklyn Green Show House. We bought it because we were not fully educated on the graywater needs a Brooklyn brownstone has. Unfortunately it was a huge mistake. We do not think the Brac Graywater unit is intelligently designed. In fact it is over designed. Apart from
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Check this PowerPoint out. It is cool. It shows images of the earth and other celestial entities. It gives a really great perspective of our place in the universe, both as a small spec in a vast ocean and as a very beautiful, fragile gem. EnglishAstronomie2
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We’ve been looking for a chlorine alternative for our Brooklyn brownstone gray water systems. Chlorine is not ideal because it gives off fumes. I’ve also read that when the chlorine molecules bond with the soil particles it alters the chlorine into a form called Chloramine that causes cancer. This is a concern if using the gray
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Brooklyn homes were originally built without insulation. We often come across a situation where we are doing a green renovation of a Brooklyn building but not gutting it completely. This creates an insulation problem. We want to add plenty of insulation but that is hard if you are working with existing exterior walls. In this situation I
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