Tag: NYSERDA
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Green Career Profile: Alison Kling
Alison Kling, Assistant Vice President of the Energy Policy Department, NYC Economic Development Corporation. Alison, thank you for speaking with me. Now what does that job title mean? What do you do – what does your job entail? EDC is an economic development organization, doing a lot of development, planning and real estate transaction services,…
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Starting now! New York’s Great Appliance Swap Out
Governor Paterson has announced the New York Great Appliance Swap Out – a program that provides $16.8 million for New Yorkers to turn in their less efficient appliances for rebates on energy efficient appliances NOW through Sunday, February 21. The program uses federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Urban Green Council Releases Green Construction Cost Study for NYC
We thought our readers would be interested in the Urban Green Council’s new report “Cost of Green in New York City.” Urban Green Council recognized a need to study the cost premium of green construction in NYC. As they note, advocates often argue that green cost premiums are small, but that detailed research in…
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Greening-up a brownstone
I own a brownstone in Brooklyn and want to have an energy audit and a review of ways to make the building greener in general. Can you offer any recommendations of programs, companies, consultants that do this? Does the city have any incentives or programs to help? -Kippy Kippy, The short answer is yes —…
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Retrofitting Existing Affordable Housing
Here are three questions from a student at Rutgers who was working on a paper about the costs, benefits, and barriers of retrofitting affordable housing to improve energy efficiency: Are the tenants of green affordable homes seeing true savings? Are they increasing awareness about other environmental issues to communities that normally wouldn’t? How are policies…
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February 2008: Regulations and Incentives for Residential Retrofits
Lawyer Gail Suchman on the current regulations and incentives available for energy-efficiency retrofits in residential buildings.