We are looking for a part time PR person to help our innovative green building company in Brooklyn. We are looking for somebody living locally with a passion for Brooklyn community, green building, the triple bottom line of People/Profit/Planet and who wants to become a PR specialist in this area. Job includes: – collecting and […]
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Are you passionate about green building? Do you have building skills (metalwork, carpentry, electric, plumbing…)? Do you want to learn more in this area? Do you like to use unusual materials to build in innovative ways? Do you look at a product off the shelf and ask, “How can I built that myself better instead
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Solar Today Magazine is put out by the American Solar Energy Society, a leader in renewable energy with a tag line “Leading the Renewable Energy Revolution.” In many ways ASES does live up to their tag line. They are a great organization doing a lot of good work in the renewable energy field. The magazine
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Home Power Magazine is for those of us who wonder how much energy we could generate using solar panels. If that question isn’t interesting to you then this magazine won’t be either. The mag is all about getting energy from your house using solar, wind, water, and intelligent design (in that order). Most of the
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The Mother Earth News Magazine has a tag line: “The Original Guide To Living Wisely”. It is as simple as that. Started in 1970, when idealism was thick in the air, Mother Earth News is founded on moral principles unlike the myriad of new green magazines that are founded on the realization that green is
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I have a love hate relationship with the local Brooklyn green building supply stores. I love that they sell green stuff, I hate that they want to sell as much of it as they can. Most people would scratch their head at that comment. “Of course they want you to buy it, what wrong with
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Green Source Magazine is backed by a MAMMOTH: McGraw Hill Construction. To give you an example of how powerful they are, McGraw Hill’s construction related web site is construction.com. Anyone who can get their hands on that web domain is a major player in the building industry, if not one of the largest. McGraw Hill
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LEED uses the 500 mile radius as the benchmark for local materials. I don’t know why they picked that number. But it is as good as any I guess. 500 is what you could cover in one long day if you were really hauling it. By car, that is…. I don’t think you want more
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Join us for our Spring Open House Tour! In its seventh annual tour, GreenHomeNYC offers the public a unique glimpse at the inner workings and design details comprising exemplar Green buildings in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Guests on the tours will be hosted by the dedicated sustainability practitioners of these buildings, such as their expert
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Building a green kitchen has a lot of considerations. Energy efficiency of appliances, smart counters and of course the cabinets. In Brooklyn a main consideration is making a nice kitchen in a small space. We are designing our green kitchen in the Brooklyn Green Showhouse with a modern style. This will offset the very probable
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