Category: Blog
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June Forum: Cooling
June is here and with it the cooling season begins! GreenHomeNYC is here to help you make the transition in an informed and sustainable way. Our June forum will focus on many aspects of Cooling. We’ll start with a Cooling 101 session to get everyone up to speed, and move on to topics such as…
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{Green Careers} April 2014 Recap – Sustainable Career Tracks: ACRE Edition
Article by Zella Pirello GreenHomeNYC held its monthly Green Careers meeting on Tuesday, April 9 at the NYC ACRE’s Urban Future Lab. For April, the GHNYC Green Careers group organized another “Sustainable Career Tracks” discussion, where professionals from various facets of the sustainability field were invited to tell their individual stories about how they…
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May Forum: Green Career Transitions Pechu Kucha
Changing courses mid-career can be a challenge on many levels and it takes hard work and tenacity to get where you want to go. We feel your pain. This May, let GreenHomeNYC pump some life back into your job search as 10 speakers from all areas of the green sector tell inspiring stories about how…
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April Forum: Daylighting of the Saw Mill River
GreenHomeNYC will host a forum on Daylighting the Saw Mill River on Wednesday, April 16, from 6:30–8 p.m. at the Hansgrohe – AXOR Design Studio, 29 9th Ave. Manhattan, NY. Speakers Ned Sullivan, (Scenic Hudson), Joe Fleming, P.E., (PS&S Engineering), Rick Magder and Ann-Marie Mitroff (Groundwork Hudson Valley) will talk about working with private…
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{Green Careers} March 2014 Recap – The BuildingEnergy Conference
By Gregory Thomas On Tuesday, March 4th, GreenHomeNYC’s Green Careers group held its third meeting of the year. This time in Boston, Massachusetts during the BuildingEnergy 2014 (BE14) conference. BuildingEnergy, run by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (or NESEA, an affiliate of GreenHomeNYC), is a conference and trade show where professionals across the…
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{Green Careers} April 2014 meeting – Sustainable Career Tracks: ACRE Edition
If you’re interested in gaining insight from professionals who have launched their own sustainably focused businesses or work to empower entrepreneurs and companies rooted in the energy efficiency field, then be sure attend the April Green Careers meeting where NYC ACRE will be hosting. RSVP HERE!
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March Forum: Green Small Businesses
As New York City invests in a greener economy, small businesses are at the forefront of experimentation and innovation. Engineers and scientists are developing technology to address climate change. Entrepreneurs are designing business models and strategies that bring those solutions to market. And individuals from every sector, from food service to construction, are finding opportunities…
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Thoughts on BuildingEnergy 14
by Andy Padian, GreenHomeNYC Board member Having been a religious attendee of BE conferences for most of the last 20 years, and having no expectations of what I would get out of this year except for networking, I can report unconditionally that this is the best conference I have ever been to, and that…
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The Green Spotlight: Andrew McNamara
With NESEA’s Building Energy conference right around the corner, GreenhomeNYC is shining the spotlight on the experts who will be making BE 14 an exceptional industry event! Andrew McNamara is Vice President of Engineering at Bright Power, Inc., a Manhattan-based firm that is pioneering energy efficiency and solar energy solutions in multifamily residential buildings.…
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{Green Careers} February 2014 – Sustainable Career Tracks
By Srikant Subramaniam On Tuesday, February 4th, the GreenHomeNYC Green Careers group held its second meeting of the year. Intended as a seminar on Sustainable Career Tracks, the event was held at the offices of one of New York’s leading firms in the industry, Steven Winter Associates, Inc. The meeting, presided over by…