In the last year or so cork has attracted more media attention than in the last 2,500 years of use. Beginning with the Egyptians, cork has been used as a stopper for vessels containing perishables like wine, water, and olive oil. Since then the use of cork has expanded to use in flooring tiles, shoes, […]
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The now extinct Kowloon Walled City, also known as the City of Darkness may be a perverse prototype for green, sustainable living. Eco Brooklyn is constantly searching for green building alternatives applicable to New York City living, so when we came across Kowloon we almost fell off our seats. It was Gotham City on cheap
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Last week we installed a split AC in a yoga studio in Carroll Gardens. I was interested to see the price differential between the two in energy costs per year and how long the pay-back period for the split AC/heat pump would be. The split AC/heat pump cost $2100 to cover the cost of the
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When the developer Voltaic Solaire finishes its nearly complete headquarters and showhouse named “The Delta” later this summer, New York will take one step closer to Eco-Brooklyn’s collective goal of turning New York green. The five-story Delta, located on Hamilton Avenue and Ninth Street, just a few blocks south of our Green Show House, will be independently off the grid.
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Eco Brooklyn is an NY ecological landscaping company currently working on a project to build a natural swimming pool (read more here.) Natural pools are a new service that Eco Brooklyn is adding to our long list of amenities. In an attempt to gain publicity for Eco Brooklyn’s green contracting services, we considered joining a few
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We had a swarm of bees in front of the Eco Brooklyn office the other day so I called my friend Eric from GardenFork.tv to come by and give them a home. Check out the video he made of it:
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We have been experimenting a lot with self sustaining garden ponds lately. One thing is to build a pond that looks like a black bathtub with half dead plants and a goldfish, another thing is to create a diverse ecosystem that thrives. The trick is to design it right. And they will come. The bugs,
Here are some interesting numbers from the Binational Softwood Lumber Council (BSLC) on the environmental footprint of building three similar homes from three three different materials – wood, metal and concrete. I’m sure you can guess what their numbers show: that wood is the greenest option. I don’t know whether their numbers are based in reality or
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New York Passive House builders are all scrambling to find high quality windows that meed the strict PH air tightness and insulation standards. With the exception of a few Canadian windows there just aren’t any US windows that meet these standards. Almost all good windows come from Europe and the challenge for New York green
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Here is an email I got from a company called Educational Housing Services that offers housing for students coming to NY. Eco Brooklyn gets a lot of interns from out of town and we usually send them to Craigslist.org for their housing needs. I’ve never used Educational Housing Services but I thought I’d pass the info on in
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