Category: Blog
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October Forum: Sustainable Cultural Institutions
Join us in October for our last forum of 2012! We’ll be taking an in-depth look at Sustainable Cultural Institutions. These buildings often have high energy demands and to build and operate them sustainably can be a tough task. We’ll be taking in a breadth of cultural institutions. We’ll have speakers presenting on the…
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July Forum Recap – Water, Water Everywhere
On July 18th GreenHomeNYC held its Green Building Monthly Forum on Water Efficiency at the TOTO Showroom. The forum was moderated by Gunnar Baldwin, a Water Efficiency Specialist at TOTO USA. Panelists included Joe Schaffer, a professional engineer of Green Environmental Associates, who presented on reducing storm water runoff, Brendan Shea of Recover Green Roofs, who presented…
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September Forum: Spotlight on Jersey City, NJ
Join GreenHomeNYC, and our co-sponsors, the Urban Land Institute, the Jersey City Environmental Commission, and the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency for our September forum as we turn our sights to the West for a Spotlight on Jersey City! We’ll be learning about various active sustainability projects and intiatives going on in the area. This will include…
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August Forum: Sustainable Healthcare Design
Healthcare facilities may be considered behemoths when it comes to energy consumption. They are reportedly second only to manufacturing buildings in energy intensity and are very costly to operate. Building professionals and the LEED for Healthcare rating system have helped to address energy efficiency in healthcare while simultaneously creating environments that promote well-being for its…
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July Forum: Water Efficiency
Water is one of our most important, but often overlooked, natural resources. Our July forum will be focused on several different facets of water efficiency. Our moderator-led line-up of speakers will talk about: Hydrology and it’s connection to water conservation on large-scale development projects, water efficiency solutions at the multi-family and individual level, and green…
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Join us for a Brooklyn Home Energy Audit Demonstration!
Got burning questions about how to make your home energy efficient? Interested in becoming a green building professional? Come join our energy audit demo! We’ll be analyzing and discussing the building science of a 2-family house in Kensington, Brooklyn. This demo is currently tentatively scheduled for this Wednesday, June 27, starting at 6:30 pm.…
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Understanding Energy Efficient Building Standards: A Look at Passive House
Energy efficient building standards are practices that guide us towards creating structures that are indeed sustainable. Currently, different rating systems – such as LEED, Green Globes, and Society of Environmentally Responsible Facilities (SERF), to name a few – exist to hold us accountable for the ways we design, build, retrofit and operate our structures. Another…
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Watch: Top Ten Green Building Tips
GreenHomeNYC put together a few videos to give a little more background on our top ten tips for home owners, tenants, and small building owners. These first three installments are for energy efficiency, green materials, and waste prevention. Check them out, and please be sure to give us your feedback in the survey on each…
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The Fourth Annual Patty Noonan Memorial Policy Forum
LEAVING #6 OIL BEHIND: POLICIES, COSTS, AND SAVINGS Sponsored by GreenHomeNYC & the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities NYC is one of the last bastions of #6 residual oil use in the country, and the environmental problems with this high particulate hydrocarbon has sparked a heated discussion in the City for decades. With the City…
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Incentivizing Commercial Energy Efficiency
Power companies have been taking steps to support energy efficiency with programs and incentives, and volunteer Tad Kroll decided to take some time to look into recent efforts in the commercial sector. Below is some information on what Con Edison is doing, in part based on attending Con Ed’s May summit and while there, speaking…