High Efficiency Toilets (HET) are the only kind of toilet anyone should be buying for their Brooklyn green brownstone renovation. If you have an old toilet I think this is a worthwhile and justifyable new purchace. You can get one starting at $125. There are a couple ways they could be HET – dual flush, […]
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The book Green By Design, Creating a Home for Sustainable Living by Angela Dean is a good exploration of green design and the process behind it. In green building the process is just as important as the end result. A beautiful home is not beautiful in the green builder’s eyes if the materials are not
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We got a nice plug in The L Magazine – we were named Green Hero of the Week.
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Green roofs use an engineered substrate, rather than natural soil, to support plant growth. There are a number of commercial varieties available, but these are often shipped considerable distances from supplier to consumer and can be expensive. To reduce the cost of our roofs, it would be best if we could produce our own green
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A green builder should be treated the same as a coroner or dentist. You don’t call them if you don’t have to. The greenest building is to not build at all. At the industry’s current evolutionary state in building it is best to avoid building if possible because building inevitably consumes resources and destroys things.
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The book Mini House Now is a picture book of small houses, specifically houses with less than 1080 square feet. They are all free standing houses, most of them in the country side but one or two surrounded by other houses. The pictures are great. Do you have any idea how hard it is to
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Eco Brooklyn is desperately in need of a green space where we can store and share with others all the materials we salvage. The city provides and we constantly find good materials in dumpsters and demolitions. But we have no place to put it! The Brooklyn Green Show House is bursting with material and we
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The book Insulate and Weatherize is published by Taunton and is part of their Build Like a Pro Series – Expert Advice From Start to Finish. It is advanced weatherization and insulation techniques for a residential home in the North and Mid East United States. This book, like all Build Like a Pro series, is
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When material gets delivered to the job site there is a crucial window of time from when the truck arrives to when it leaves. The driver is usually in a hurry to unload and take off. There is a flurry of excitement over the new arrival of materials and people are busy running around taking
We just installed a solar tube for a client in a Brooklyn brownstone. Brownstones tend to be dark. So we are big fans of solar tubes. As a solar tube installer there is nothing more satisfying than installing one in a Brooklyn brownstone. The results are so drastic. We passed this particular solar tube through
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