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NYC Green Buildings Open House

The Green Buildings Open House is GreenhomeNYC’s annual guided tour of green buildings all over New York City, taking place on the first Saturday of October every year.

The event gives New Yorkers a chance to get inside Green buildings and hear about their inner workings from the owners, architects, and engineers who designed, built and operate them. Visitors will come away with new expectations of comfort, livability, energy and environmental benefits.

Since 2003, GreenHomeNYC has organized the NYC Green Buildings Open House as a part of Northeast Sustainable Energy Associaion’s (NESEA) Green Buildings Open House and the American Solar Energy Society’s (ASES) National Solar Tour.

2008 Green Buildings Open House: Sat. October 4

The 2008 NYC Green Buildings Open House was held on Saturday, October 4. Guests visited more than 25 participating buildings in 3 bus tours, 2 bike tours, and 2 walking tours.

Bus & Bike Tours

Brooklyn Bus Tour: 9am - 4pm
Bronx Bus Tour: 9am - 4pm
Manhattan Bus Tour: 9 am - 4pm
Brooklyn Bike Tour 1: 10am - 3pm
Brooklyn Bike Tour 2: 10am - 1pm

Walking Tours
Brought to you in collaboration with Open House New York. The walking tours are full! Please join us on a bus or bike tour!

Open Gardens
The following community gardens are also showing off their renewable energy systems to visitors:

6BC Botanical Garden 12 - 4 pm
6/15 Green Community Garden10 am - 4 pm

The 2008 event, our 6th annual tour, is sponsored by NYSERDA. The Hunts Point CAT shuttles are provided by BOEDC’s Bronx Initiative for Energy and the Environment.

All bus tours are on Hunts Point Clean Air Transportation (CAT) shuttles. The hybrid electric vehicles combine the use of a conventional engine and a highly efficient electric motor to provide an extremely clean transportation option. The vehicles exhibit the following emission reductions: NOx of 99.6%, PM 100%, HC 47.1% and CO 67.2%