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NYC Landscape as Battery: Designing for Energy Storage in Soil, Biomass, and Water

City Planning, landscaping /

What if your garden could store and release energy like a battery? Think of soil as thermal mass, vegetation as latent heat reservoirs, and strategically placed wetlands or swales as flow regulators. In dense urban hubs like NYC, landscape professionals can unlock the landscapes’ hidden potential for cooling, thermal regulation, and low-carbon energy resilience. Thermal […]

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Best Urban Space Remodels: Our Instagram Claim to Fame

All Posts, Brooklyn, Design, Eco Brooklyn, Garden, Green Roof, House, Passive House, Recycled, Salvaged, Shipping Container, Sustainability /

In the spirit of awards season, we’re pleased to announce that our green building Instagram account has been awarded an Instagrammy! Improvement Center evaluated the top ten home contractors to follow and we’ve been recognized for having the best urban space remodels. Our feed features images from our Manhattan and Brooklyn ecological construction projects including gardens, green roofs,

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Upcycled Shipping Container: Windows

Design, Energy, Green, Recycled, Salvaged /

Sustainable architecture and passive building designs are swiftly increasing in popularity and as a NY green contractor we have been busy developing creative and sustainable structures in Brooklyn, NY. Our current project is a two story studio and office space built from 5 recycled shipping containers. A more comprehensive post will be added regarding the

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Crown Heights Project – 100% Salvaged Material Fence

Brooklyn, Build It Forward, Design, Eco Brooklyn, Green, Projects, Recycled, salvage, Salvaged, Sustainability /

Eco Brooklyn has been working on an interesting sustainable project in the Crown Heights area. The challenge is to build a fence using only salvaged material. How does this project work? Our green building team collects extraneous wood from the local company, U.S. Fencing Systems, Inc. The staff there are extremely gracious and are happy

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How Can We Clean Up the Gowanus?

All Posts, Brooklyn, City Planning, Eco Brooklyn, Gowanus Canal, water /

Before New York City as we know it today existed, the Gowanus was a tidal wetlands and stream ecosystem. In the 1860s, the area was dredged to become the Gowanus Canal, a major route for oil refineries, tanneries, chemical plants, manufactured-gas plants and other heavy industries who settled along the canal’s banks. These factories dumped wastes and leached

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