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Breaking news: NY City Council enacts proposals from Urban Green Task Force

All Posts, City Planning, Ethics, Green, Green Roof, House, Politics / Eco Brooklyn Admin

As New York green contractors we follow the latest developments in NY building codes very closely. Yesterday, the New York City Council enacted three proposals from the Urban Green Task Force. The new codes, effective July 1, 2012, mandate more stringent regulation of waste, recycling, and pollutant filtration, representing a step forward for green building. […]

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Dual flush toilets in American homes

All Posts, Green, House, Plumbing, water / Eco Brooklyn Admin

New York green contractors and homeowners are applying a modern innovation to an age-old technology. The body creates two types of waste, so the logical approach is a toilet capable of two types of flush: a gentle gurgle for liquid waste and a more generous gush for solid waste, resulting in water conservation through more

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Newsflash: Oysters Occupy the Gowanus

All Posts, Design, Gowanus Canal, water / Eco Brooklyn Admin

We are now accepting checks to buy oysters. Here’s the deal: around the corner from lies the heavily polluted Gowanus Canal. The industrial landscape of this former tidal creek is surreal in its bleakness – but to us it offers the exciting possibility of a rock bottom wasteland that has nowhere to go but up.

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Passive House Building in NY

All Posts, Passive House / Eco Brooklyn Admin

Here is a good article in the NY Times about Passive Houses in NYC. As a Passive House builder we are excited to see growing interest in the technique as we feel it is a key element in building a greener New York.

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Bringing Passivhaus to Harlem

All Posts, Passive House, Review, Salvaged / Eco Brooklyn Admin

Check out this great article about our Eco Brooklyn’s Passive House in Harlem. GreenBuildingAdvisor.com, a great online source for building, designing, and remolding green homes, sent Richard Defendorf to our Harlem site to check out our work. Read his write-up of all the techniques we used to seal our passive house! http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/green-building-news/bringing-passivhaus-harlem

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Film Biz Recycling Rocks

All Posts, City Planning / Eco Brooklyn Admin

Here is a shout out to Film Biz Recycling. They do great work and help reduce the waste of the film industry, which quite possibly is one of the most wasteful industries out there because film builds real world environments and immediately after the shoot need to get rid of them. Film Biz Recycling is

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Hi-Performance Tape

All Posts, Energy, Insulation, Passive House, Resource Links / Eco Brooklyn Admin

At Eco Brooklyn, we do energy-efficiency retrofits that involve huge amounts of air sealing, air barriers, vapor barriers and insulation. We aim for the super stringent Passive House building envelope standard and net-zero energy consumption. This is as radical it gets in energy conservation. Sealing the home in an airtight shell requires a bit

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Composting Leaves – What are your options?

All Posts, City Planning, Recycled / Eco Brooklyn Admin

It seems like just in the past week the trees of New York have decided to shed most of their leaves. Around EcoBrooklyn, leaves are floating down onto our green roof and some of our projects in the yard. The smell of fallen leaves overpowers the smell of city, and it’s a welcome scent indeed.

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Earthship and Passive House

All Posts, Build It Forward / Eco Brooklyn Admin

The two best building systems I know of right now are the Earthship and Passive House methods. Right now Eco Brooklyn is lucky enough to be involved in two jobs that involve both systems, one a NY earthship and the other a NY Passive House. Earthship building is best for non-urban parts of the world.

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Mayor Bloomberg, Green Mayor but Tone Deaf

All Posts, Build It Forward, City Planning, Ethics, Politics / Eco Brooklyn Admin

I have tolerated Mayor Bloomberg because he has done some good things for New York’s ecology. He isn’t the mayor of Copenhagen, Denmark. Now that is a city worth looking at in terms of ecology and social planning. But Bloomberg could have been a lot worse. His plan NYC is an acceptable plan, the bare minimum any

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Breaking news: NY City Council enacts proposals from Urban Green Task Force

Dual flush toilets in American homes

Newsflash: Oysters Occupy the Gowanus

Passive House Building in NY

Bringing Passivhaus to Harlem

Film Biz Recycling Rocks

Hi-Performance Tape

Composting Leaves – What are your options?

Earthship and Passive House

Mayor Bloomberg, Green Mayor but Tone Deaf

Eco Brooklyn

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