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Sean the green builder

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This post is for Sean’s son who he loves vary much. Sean is making a lot of interesting things. Here is making a custom sink with his friend Chris. He is very good at saving old wood floors and making them look beautiful He is good at fixing stairs too

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Spray Foam – Bad

All Posts, Energy, Insulation / Eco Brooklyn Admin

Here is an email from a fellow green builder, Keith Winston, on the cons of spray foam. No matter how great they are for sealing, they have too many drawbacks IMO. The same sealing can be done with good tape, vapor barriers and caulk. His email: The foaming agents of small cans of foam (i.e.

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New Sheet Rock

All Posts, Politics, Recycled, Salvaged / Eco Brooklyn Admin

I’ve gone a couple weeks without finding cull or used sheet rock. Not wanting to wait any longer I painfully, regretfully, and sadly went to Home Depot and bought new sheet rock. It is rare that I buy new material like that. Now it is a strange feeling. It is so easy. Go to store

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Suntech Solar

All Posts, Review, Solar / Eco Brooklyn Admin

I have a lot of respect for Suntech, one of the largest solar panel manufacturers in the world. It is one of the few exceptions I will make in my distain for Chinese products. China has a lot of great products. But the moment you ship them half across the globe in gas guzzling tankers

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Urban Off Grid

All Posts, Build It Forward, Gray Water, Green Roof, Politics, Solar / Eco Brooklyn Admin

My manager Jack and I were talking about the direction of Eco Brooklyn today and we were trying to put into words the concept of Eco Brooklyn’s services. Jack came up with a genius term: Urban Off Grid. That is exactly what Eco Brooklyn does. We create urban off grid houses. This does not mean

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Milk Paint

All Posts, Design, Review, Review - Websites / Eco Brooklyn Admin

We got our order of milk paint, all 160 pounds of it. yes pounds. Not gallons. It comes in powder form and you add the water. It is produced by The Old Fashioned Milk Paint Co. and their web site is the very clear MilkPaint.com. They have a new line of paint called Safe Paint.

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What is a green builder?

All Posts, Green / Eco Brooklyn Admin

I interview a lot of people and I always ask them if they are a green builder….what is a green builder? For me a green builder is that unique person who chooses green building over many other opportunities. They have the talent to play the piano, they have the offer to run a restaurant, they

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Calling All Green Builders

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As I get better at putting into words the mission of Eco Brooklyn I am better able to find the people who belong in the company. I posted this on Craigslist and got over 200 applications….something is in the air. I post it here in case anyone reading this is interested. Calling All Green Builders

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Cancer and Fiberglass

All Posts, Insulation / Eco Brooklyn Admin

In my ongoing awakening, this week it was all about fiberglass. It made me realize that I. who considers myself an advanced Brooklyn green builder, have a lot to learn (May I never forget). So here I am thinking that fiberglass is relatively harmless as long as you get out the Formaldehyde. Sure fiberglass is

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Sustainable House

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Here is an example of a person who took their house off the grid while living in the middle of a big city. In Brooklyn we can do everything he did. We need to get around the false belief that our brownstones need to be connected to the mains sewer lines. If we do it

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