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Green Building Monthly Forum
The January Catwalk forum was a great success and we’re moving on to the next one! February’s forum, Building in Flood Zones, is in part a response to Hurricane Sandy. We’ll be looking at many of the building issues that arise in NYC flood zones and how they might be overcome in the future. Click…
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April Forum: Bronx Green Building
Where the Bronx was before the recent rebirth, how so much of the redevelopment of the Bronx came to embrace green building, and how the current economic environment is expected to affect the future development of the Bronx. With speakers Keith Fairey, Enterprise Community Partners; John M. Reilly, Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation; Peter Magistro, Bronx…
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Follow what’s up at NESEA BE09 via Twitter!
Didn’t make it to Boston for Building Energy 09? GreenHomeNYC and other folks are Tweeting the fun. Follow what’s going on via Twitter!
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Campaign for sustainable wood in NJ on NPR
We just heard from Rainforest Relief Executive Director Tim Keating that an episode of NPT’s Marketplace aired a segment last night about Rainforest Relief’s 2-year campaign in Wildwood, New Jersey, to use sustainably-logged, domestic black locust lumber instead of ipê logged (mostly illegally) from the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Peru, for a 4-block renovation…
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February Policy Round-Up
Green in the Stimulus Bill This biggest news of this past month was the passage and signing of the Stimulus Bill on Capital Hill. Notable to GreenHomeNYC is the funding that may benefit energy efficiency upgrades in private buildings. This Business Week list lays out the dollar amounts: $30 billion for a smart power grid,…
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Upcoming Volunteer Team Meetings
Public Programs Team Tonight! Monday, March 2: 7pm (Web-based meeting) This meeting will be a run-through of the “House Calls” presentation. Email Erik for URL and instructions on how to join the web-based conference. Info & Resources Team Thurs. March 5: 7 – 8 pm (At our office space) This will be part deux of…
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March Forum: DIY – Take your building’s energy pulse
Basics of benchmarking your building’s energy use, with Henry Gifford and Jeff Perlman.
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2/25: NESEA Member Happy Hour!
Calling all NYC NESEA members! Please join us on Feb 25th from 6pm-8pm for a NESEA NYC Chapter happy hour! We are going to be at Vig Bar, at 12 Spring Street at Elizabeth Street. This is a great opportunity to meet other NESEA NYC folks and to chat with GreenHomeNYC (your local chapter) about…
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Olivia Eckfeld
Having grown up in various countries and developed a love for traveling, Olivia Susai Eckfeld found a passion for the urban environment at an early age. After attaining her bachelor’s degree in urban planning in Perth, Australia (her hometown) she moved to Canada and received her Master of Planning degree at Queen’s University focusing on…
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February Monthly Forum: Green Building 101
Energy pro Tom Sahagian, landscape architect Laura Starr, and environmental planner Timothy Terway each give a short primer of things that he/she would like everyone to know about energy and water.