Bob Cavello from Mercury Solar is one of the players in solar PV sales in Brooklyn. There aren’t many players and you get to know them all if you are in the green building community. He has this great term: Solar Heroics. Solar Heroics is when your installation pushes the limits of conventional solar installations. […]
Building is the largest contributor of CO2…..Green building has a huge and immediate responsibility to reverse this. We need to start using new materials and stop using others. One of the crucial ones is sheet rock. It has lots of embeded energy and for some reason dominates building in terms of wall panels. Enter Eco
This post is for Sean’s son who he loves vary much. Sean is making a lot of interesting things. Here is making a custom sink with his friend Chris. He is very good at saving old wood floors and making them look beautiful He is good at fixing stairs too
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Here is an email from a fellow green builder, Keith Winston, on the cons of spray foam. No matter how great they are for sealing, they have too many drawbacks IMO. The same sealing can be done with good tape, vapor barriers and caulk. His email: The foaming agents of small cans of foam (i.e.
I’ve gone a couple weeks without finding cull or used sheet rock. Not wanting to wait any longer I painfully, regretfully, and sadly went to Home Depot and bought new sheet rock. It is rare that I buy new material like that. Now it is a strange feeling. It is so easy. Go to store
I have a lot of respect for Suntech, one of the largest solar panel manufacturers in the world. It is one of the few exceptions I will make in my distain for Chinese products. China has a lot of great products. But the moment you ship them half across the globe in gas guzzling tankers
My manager Jack and I were talking about the direction of Eco Brooklyn today and we were trying to put into words the concept of Eco Brooklyn’s services. Jack came up with a genius term: Urban Off Grid. That is exactly what Eco Brooklyn does. We create urban off grid houses. This does not mean
We got our order of milk paint, all 160 pounds of it. yes pounds. Not gallons. It comes in powder form and you add the water. It is produced by The Old Fashioned Milk Paint Co. and their web site is the very clear MilkPaint.com. They have a new line of paint called Safe Paint.
I interview a lot of people and I always ask them if they are a green builder….what is a green builder? For me a green builder is that unique person who chooses green building over many other opportunities. They have the talent to play the piano, they have the offer to run a restaurant, they
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As I get better at putting into words the mission of Eco Brooklyn I am better able to find the people who belong in the company. I posted this on Craigslist and got over 200 applications….something is in the air. I post it here in case anyone reading this is interested. Calling All Green Builders
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