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  • Announcing UAGC and GreenHomeNYC’s Energy Efficient Building Operator Classes!

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    GreenHomeNYC and the Urban Assembly for Green Careers Want to Cut Your Building’s Energy and Water Bills by up to 40%. If you are a building owner, manager, coop/condo member, super, bookkeeper/comptroller, or just want to learn how multifamily buildings use and waste energy and water, you need to take the Energy Efficient Building Operator…

  • Our Boilers, Ourselves: Reloaded

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    Join us for our March Forum focusing on Energy Efficiency in which we’ll be handing the whole show over to Henry Gifford for an update of his presentation “Our Boilers, Ourselves.”  You’ll learn everything you need to know about the fossil-fuel-eater in your basement – or at least, a lot.  Henry will cover the basic…

  • Introducing GreenHomeNYC’s Featured Green Buildings blog posts!

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    GreenHomeNYC’s Featured Green Buildings blog posts take a closer look at the structures listed within the GHNYC New York Green Building Database. Each write-up investigates a sustainable feature or notable attribute of a particular green building found here in New York. The Featured Green Building posts and the New York Green Building Database work together to increase knowledge and awareness of…

  • NESEA’s BE12 is Next Week!

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    It’s almost time for NESEA’s BuidingEnergy – the most established and most cross-disciplinary renewable energy and high performance building conference in the region, March 6-8 at the Boston Seaport World Trade Center, http://www.nesea.org/be12/ With an expected 4,000 attendees, this year’s BuildingEnergy has an impressive contingency of people from our state participating in the conference’s 80 accredited educational…

  • GreenHomeNYC Volunteers Participate in Home Energy Audit

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    GreenHomeNYC volunteers got an exciting opportunity to learn about energy audits by participating in a home energy audit demonstration by members of Power Concepts’ Energy Division.  The group preformed an ASHRAE level-one audit on a four-story Brownstone in Park Slope.  While GreenHomeNYC does NOT offer energy audits, this was an excellent opportunity for our volunteer…

  • Via Verde — A new model for green, affordable housing?

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    Via Verde is a new mixed income, mixed use residential project in the South Bronx. It’s name, Spanish for “the green way” captures the ethos of its design and the philosophy being handed over to residents, moving in this winter. At the heart of the project is a dynamic garden and series of green roofs…

  • February Forum: Green Careers

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    Join us in an exploration of Green Careers at this month’s upcoming forum. We’ll be hearing about making the transition into a green career, two different training programs, and a variety of green careers from corporate sustainability management to solar panel installation and renewable energy. This will be a great forum for anyone interested in…

  • LESEC Warehouse Opens in Gowanus

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    Starting January 31, 2012, the Lower East Side Ecology Center (LESEC) is making responsible disposal of working and non-working electronic devices easier than ever before! Bring your unwanted electronics to LESEC’s brand new permanent e-waste collection center at 469 President Street (at Nevins Street) in Gowanus. The following working and non-working electronics can be dropped…

  • Tools to Improve Your Sustainable Knowledge and Business at NESEA BE 2012

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    Every year around this time, I write to implore folks to come to the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) Building Energy (BE) Conference in Boston, March 6-8. Over the last 35+ years, the best minds in the Northeast have annually gotten together to help building owners, architects, engineers, planners, building scientists, facility managers, and plain…

  • BuildingEnergy 12 is Coming!

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    NESEA’s BuildingEnergy is the Northeast’s eminent renewable energy and high performance annual building conference, featuring fully accredited workshops (including one from GreenHomeNYC’s own Andy Padian) and learning sessions in everything from lighting design to health care and commercial buildings, and a number of sessions are interactive or include a hands-on component. BuildingEnergy also includes a…