When I coined the concept of Built It Forward I knew what it meant but that didn’t mean I knew how to accurately describe it to others. Today I was describing it and came across a good way: When you build it forward you are giving more to the world than what you are taking […]
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Quote of the day: The optimist thinks, “The glass is half full.” The pessimist thinks, “The glass is half empty.” The green builder thinks, “That glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”
Your Green Home, A Guide to Planning a Healthy Envrironmentally Friendly New Home, by Alex Wilson, is a great intro to green building. I had to read it for my National Sustainable Building Advisor Program and i make it recommended reading for all employees and interns at our Brooklyn green building company Eco Brooklyn. Alex
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FYI Sign Up Now. Green Buildings Open House on May 9th Greetings! Hello NESEA members! Bring a friend and join us for our Spring Open House Tour. GreenHomeNYC has moved our Open House from October to May. For the next 8 hours buy one registration at full price ($25) and get up to four registrations
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Here is a great clip. The message I got from it is that you can influence your environment through what emanates from within you. And it can be incredibly fun. We’re seeing this a lot with the work we are doing in green building here in Brooklyn. Green building is like laughter. Laughter has been
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The Northeast Sun Magazine is put out by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association twice a year. It is not a supper glossy magazine focused on ultra cool design. It is concerned with practical nuts and bolts sustainable energy issues for the Northeast US region. It is a good magazine to keep up to date on
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Here is a copy of the code relating to gray water systems in New York and Brooklyn. It lays it out pretty clearly. Our green show house has a gray water system and we offer it to anyone wanting to green their brownstone. Gray water systems are a crucial part of any green renovation. One
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As a green contractor in Brooklyn we need to be very aware of current tax rebates and incentives since it has an impact on the cost of any job. And the rebates are constantly changing. To stay on top of them we work closely with Steve Goldberg, a Tax Consultant who specializes in this area.
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I was recommended this web site by a friend of mine who thought they had commonalities with out company. The Common Fire Foundation has a lot of cool stuff going on. They have a wonderful combination of idealism and high quality action. As you can see from their web site they are passionate about green
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As an educational outreach green building company we are always combining education with real world green building jobs in Brooklyn. This means we have unpaid interns training on a job site that is making profit for the company. Tricky Solution of Mistakes This is a tricky situation. On one hand the interns have very little
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