The book “Brooklyn Modern” by Diana Lind, published by Rizzoli, is a real inspiration to any green builder or contractor in Brooklyn because it shows great examples of creative, green renovations of Brooklyn buildings. Most of the renovations are not intentionally green, although some are, but the home owners are part of a Brooklyn breed […]
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Architect and writer Julia Brooke Hustwit came by our Brooklyn Green Show House for the first in a series of articles she is writing on the house for re-nest.com. You can check out the first one here. We spoke a lot about how the green building process differs from normal building. Just the word “process”
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Eco Brooklyn has one rule: we don’t buy new wood. We buy damaged wood, salvaged wood, unwanted wood, and overstock from other Brooklyn contractors. We collect it from dumpsters. But we won’t buy new wood. Period. It is the thorn in my carpenters’ side. When they are under pressure to perform (which is always), time
I just came across this craigslist add with the title: green building materials delivered-brooklyn (red hook) Being a green contractor in Carroll Gardens right next door to Red Hook, I thought, “Cool! I can get green building materials delivered to our job site!” The add went on to read: “Hello, we are a green company
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Here is an interesting site called RealitySandwich.com. Although it is not Brooklyngreen building related, it does touch a lot of the elements necessary to be a good green builder. Before being a green builder we are universal citizens. Check it out. Cool.
A reporter was over at the Brooklyn green show house last week and I was talking about the importance of Brooklyn green contractors being affordable to middle class people in order for our goal of turning Brooklyn green to be successful. She mentioned another green developer who had built a house in Phili for $100K
Eco Brooklyn is growing as a company and needs to buy another vehicle. As a green contractor we are not crazy about adding to our carbon footprint. So lessen the impact we’ve started looking into alternative fuel options and fuel efficiency. The best web site for this is FuelEconomy.gov We started by first looking at
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Ever since the fire department threw a wrench in the New York solar installation movement this year New York solar panel installers have been scrambling to find alternatives for solar installations on Brooklyn brownstones. The wrench in this case is a law that requires a SIX foot wide walkway from the front of the roof
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Here is a great powerpoint on how to blow in cellulose into a wall. There is a real trick to doing this. Your generic blower rented from Home Depot does not have the power needed to dense pack to 3.5 pounds per cubic foot. But there are ways to work around this. Check out the
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“we were becoming good at standards but not very good at implementing them…low energy living is 10% technology and 90% lifestyle” This is a quote from a thoughful critique on Passive House, which is big on creating a technologically complex house that uses very little energy. But they point out that people’s lifestyle is much
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