This weekend the green roof was installed on the Brooklyn green show house. Eco Brooklyn is a green roof installer with the humble goal of getting green roofs onto every building in Brooklyn. We want to peer over the Brooklyn roof tops and see a sea of green, a vibrant ecological community in the sky. […]
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If you are putting a green roof on a Brooklyn brownstone (like we just did) chances are you don’t have a lot of space for soil and plants to be laying around. This means you need to get your materials the day before you plan on installing your green roof. We recommend getting the plants
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There is nothing more wonderful than feeling that your actions in this life are meaningful and good. That is why I am so happy as a green builder in Brooklyn. I feel my actions better the world now and for generations to come. Another person who I think is doing the same in his own
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I was explaining the meaning of Build It Forward to somebody and they pointed out that the Native American Indians have a similar theory. Theirs is the understanding that our actions today will impact future generations, seven generations to be exact. I did some research and could not find any reference to this. The best
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I read in the Carroll Gardens Courier that Ratner is continuing his dishonest takeover of the Brooklyn community in Atlantic Yards. After securing a corrupt deal with the MTA where he will be allowed to buy part of their land he said of the site this week: “….it is about affordable housing and public space.
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We just hired a new lawyer: Dan Unter. I am very happy to know him and be assured he is there if I ever need his skills. What makes Dan Unter special is that he is a green lawyer. His clients are cutting edge green businesses. His knowledge is specifically focused on the workings of
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Green @ Home Magazine is part of the “Best of Fine Homebuilding” which is where they take what they think are the best articles from Fine Homebuilding Magazine and compile them into one special magazine. You can buy it on their site. Green @ Home Magazine is a really good read. It has a great
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Building is the largest contributor of CO2…..Green building has a huge and immediate responsibility to reverse this. We need to start using new materials and stop using others. One of the crucial ones is sheet rock. It has lots of embeded energy and for some reason dominates building in terms of wall panels. Enter Eco
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
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.
