When you live in a Brooklyn brownstone all the materials in the house slowly give off dust and gases. This mixes into the air. It goes into your lungs, your skin, under your finger nails, the souls of your feet, your very bones. Over time you literally ingest the house. This is constantly happening wherever […]
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The greenest flooring option is to keep the one you have. If it is wood, then simply sand it and seal it with tung oil. It will look better than new. If it is tiles, then re-grout it and replace the cracked tiles. The exception is if it is laminate or linoleum – then get
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Eco Brooklyn just got a new shipment of T-shirts. All sizes all colors. Bought from garment district rejects, although we can’t see any flaws in them. $20. You have to come by the show house to get one. We don’t ship. They say “Eco Brooklyn – Build It Forward”. On the top you have greenery
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ReclaimedHome.com came by and interviewed Gennaro Brooks-Church at the Brooklyn Green Show House. He talks about the new template for building a Brownstone. Below is the video they took while I did a tour. They also took some cool pictures. Check out their site. They are doing some great stuff.
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I came accross HealthandEnergy.com while looking for examples of Heat Recovery Ventilation duct work installations. It is a very good site for forward thinking ways of looking at energy and how it relates to health The site covers many things more general than how to run the duct work for an ERV, but if you
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If you build green brownstones you build homes that don’t breathe without help. A green home is a well sealed and insulated home. It does not have all the normal cracks through which the house normally breathes (and leaks!). So you need to make up for that. There are different opinions but right now I
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If you ware building a green roof in Brooklyn or installing a solar PV system in Brooklyn you can apply for a tax abatement. It is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. You want to go here That will give the NYC forms for you to download and fill out. You will
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The actual wave called a Microwave if passed through your body at high enough levels will kill you. That is the case for many waves. The real question is what are high enough levels. Conventional western “wisdom” is that the radiation produced my kitchen microwave units is not high enough to cause damage….. Just like
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In the past I have posted the NY and Brooklyn DOB code for gray water systems. Henning Grentz, Consultant and Sales at New Eco and distributor of Brac Greywater Recycling Systems just sent me the most updated code. It is a newer version of the NYS Plumbing Code of 2007 (the most recent NYS version).
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If you are a green builder in Brooklyn you are often looking to Europe for green building techniques and technologies. And often it is Germany. They are miles ahead of the US in terms of energy efficiency and green building. The German Green Party has been a strong political party for years. Compare that with
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