Green Home NYC is featuring Gennaro Brooks-Church as a guest speaker. He will be speaking on two key concepts he coined: Build It Forward and the Zero Brownstone. More info below on the event next week. August forum: Working with contractors (AIA credit)August’s forum will discuss working with contractors in both residential and commercial projects. […]
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Here is an article on Eco Brooklyn in today’s NY Times Blog. http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/sustainable-brownstone-101/ The general gist is that green building can be affordable. They say Eco Brooklyn “practices guerrilla green-building techniques” to achieve this, which involves a lot of dumpster diving and salvage. We try to set up more formal ways of collecting material but it is
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GreenHomeGuide.com featured Gennaro Brooks-Church in their “Ask A Pro” Section. To read the dialog click here.
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The NY City College of Technology does this cool seminar series called Anatomy of a Brownstone. This spring I’ll be one of their speakers. For more info see below. Spring 2010 Offering: Layouts and Lifestyles Course Code: BRNS 032 Date: Saturday 3/13 1 – 5 pm Fee: $40 Directions: click here When it’s
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I was just on a radio program where we discussed with the CEO of the Omega institute their new building that is built along the Cascadian Living Building Challenge guidelines, possibly the best green building guideline I know of. Check it out here
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Reclaimed Home released their second part tour of the Brooklyn Show Green Show House.
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I just graduated from the nine month training by the National Sustainable Building Advisor Program. The program is for working professionals so the benefits of the class come just as much from the content as from other students. The students were construction leaders from many fields: HVAC, environmental remediation, architecture, furniture, design and a lot
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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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Today’s issue of the NY Daily News mentioned Eco Brooklyn and quoted Gennaro Brooks-Church. They posted the below pic and had this to say about Eco Brooklyn and Gennaro: Gennaro Brooks-Church and his 5-year-old daughter always wash their hands after they go canoeing on the murky green water. A green builder and real-estate broker, Church
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