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Get More Green From Your Building – Another Recommended Educational Event

City Planning, Education, Resource Links /

As a NY Green Contractor we think this event from the Pratt Center for Community Development (http://prattcenter.net/) is great, it really helps increase public awareness around green building issues in NYC and educates people about ways they can get themselves or tenants involved in sustainability.  They even plan to work on issues like changing attitudes […]

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Green Walls 101 Class at NY Horticultural Society

All Posts, Design, DIY, Education, LEED /

Check out this great event hosted by the New York Horticultural Society, a perfect opportunity to learn new ways to incorporate green walls into your space! Also, you’ll learn about the design, benefits, major components and systems, as well as market drivers behind this modern green building technique.  We think they’re a sustainable, beautiful and

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Global Environmental Standards

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Eco Brooklyn was recently invited to join an international group focused on creating global environmental standards. Aptly called Global Environmental Standards, the group is a wide spread collection of organizations interested in creating fair and transparent standards to help the environment. We were invited to participate in the making of global green construction standards. The

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“Same River: We are all downstream”

All Posts, Brooklyn, Education, Ethics, Press /

Here is a MUST SEE event. It is an inspiring creative synergy of art spread over several evenings to raise momentum against the  very serious threat of hydrofracking. The Irondale Arts Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn is putting it on and it starts in a couple of weeks.  The show’ll be different every night: it incorporates artwork, live music,

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“The Atomic States of America”

All Posts, Energy, Ethics, Technology /

Eco Brooklyn obsesses over energy.  Our projects are built to minimize heat loss and optimize gain, while providing individual homeowners ways to generate their own energy through solar panels.  We want to minimize homes’ reliance on energy generated through fossil fuels and nuclear power. Three Mile Island.  Chernobyl.  Fukushima Daiichi. These names instantly bring up

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New York Contractor Builds Passive House out of Salvaged Materials

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Here is a short video we threw together of the Passive House renovation in Harlem. The video mostly discusses the budgeting of the project. Now that the construction is for the most part done I think that our initial budget of $175/sq.ft is not sustainable. Of course it is great for the client in the

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