Category: Monthly Forum

Don’t throw those food particles down your kitchen sink or the plant clippings in a garbage container; Compost it! Americans throw out an enormous amount of organic matter everyday that can be used otherwise. There are a variety of benefits to managing our waste through composting which is advantageous to our soil and plant life. Join…

Green Careers: Emerging Professionals What’s it like for young, green workers? At GreenHomeNYC’s August forum, hear from three energy and sustainability professionals about their career choices, current projects and views on the future. It’s an exciting time for new people entering the green building industry in NYC. Through PlaNYC and subsequent policies, sustainability is increasingly…

GreenHome NYC’s July 2011 Green Building Forum will explore a spectrum of renewable energy technologies and how a diverse energy portfolio can benefit our community. Discussion will include new ways to deploy solar and hydroelectric power, reducing energy consumption with highly efficient geothermal (ground source heat pump) heating and cooling, and bio-based alternatives to natural…

With: Kathryn S. Wylde, President & CEO, Partnership for NYC Marcia Bystryn, President, New York League of Conservation Voters Caswell F. Holloway, Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection Dr. Natasha Iskander, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, NYU Wagner School F.L. Andrew Padian, Vice President for Energy Initiatives, The Community Preservation Corporation

With Nicole DeFeo, Queens Botanical Garden; Sandra Saha, Manager of Science Education and Green Threads Project, Brooklyn Children’s Museum; and Jeremy Linden, Image Permanece Institute, RIT (video)