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Media posted July 13, 2010

  • Source: The American Prospect
  • Date: July 13, 2010
  • Link: external link icon Off PACE

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Political Climate Change 2010

Event on June 28, 2010

 

 A panel discussion on the major new home energy efficiency initiatives emerging in New York City and State:

 

Green Jobs/Green NY

Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE)

On-Bill Recovery

 

Speakers (with links to presentations):

Neal Parikh, NYC Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability

Emmaia Gelman, Director of Green Policy, Center for Working Families

Karen Villeneuve, Director of the Residential Efficiency and Affordability Program, NYSERDA

Alisa Valderrama, Project Analyst, Center for Market Innovation, Natural Resources Defense Council

 

Event Details

June 28, 2010 - 8:30am - 11:30am
Pratt Manhattan, 144 West 14th Street, Room 213

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HPD's Green Owners' Forum in Coney Island

Event on April 20, 2010

 
The City of New York Department of Housing Preservation & Development, in partnership with Energy $mart Communities and Urban Neighborhood Services Inc., cordially invite you to a
 
Green Owners’ Forum  

An opportunity for property owners to get information on issues such as green financing opportunities, property tax exemptions, water & energy conservation, recycling, weatherization, utility incentives, and much more.

Event Details

April 20, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Coney Island's Liberation Diploma Plus High School

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Greening Commercial Corridors: Implementing Sustainable Practices with Small Businesses

Event on March 17, 2010

Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation presents

Greening Commercial Corridors: Implementing Sustainable Practices with Small Businesses

 

How can Brooklyn’s commercial districts implement sustainable practices? This seminar will provide tangible steps to implement green initiatives and discuss how BIDs and commercial revitalization managers can coordinate efforts with individual businesses to promote sustainability and the commercial corridor.
 

Event Details

March 17, 2010 - 8:30am - 10:30am
Brooklyn Public Library’s Business Library

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Sustainable Houses of Worship

Project posted December 8, 2009

Churches, mosques, synagogues and other houses of worship serve as anchors for their congregations and communities. But rising energy costs and expensive building maintenance are a burden greater than many can bear. Their aging buildings waste costly amounts of heating fuel because of inefficient design, poor insulation, and deferred maintenance.

The Pratt Center is collaborating with religious institutions to help them reduce their buildings’ energy consumption, set maintenance priorities, develop space utilization strategies and in the process turn them into centers of education and advocacy for sustainability in their communities. Sustainable Houses of Worship is currently focusing on Bedford-Stuyvesant, home to more than 100 houses of worship as well as the Retrofit Bedford Stuyvesant collaboration targeting two blocks of Herkimer Street for home weatherization.

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Feeding a Hunger for Skills, and Finding a Future

Media posted November 24, 2009

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Financing a Solar Electric System

Page last updated September 8, 2009

 

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Energy Efficiency Calculator

Page posted July 1, 2009

As building managers and owners, you know that your electric and heating bills are going up; but, the size of the checks you write do not tell you how efficiently your building is operating. As a first step in considering how to reduce energy costs, it is useful to analyze your energy bills to quantify energy use.

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Multifamily Housing Energy Efficiency

Page posted July 1, 2009

Update on 8/3/2010

We anticipate that the Multifamily Performance Program will return in September 2010.

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Retrofit Basics

Page posted July 1, 2009

What does a building energy retrofit include? These are the places to look for potential savings in energy use and expense and that you would expect to find in an energy audit or retrofit of your building. 

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