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Welcome to GreenHomeNYC where we're working with building owners, builders, and suppliers of building products to promote the use of environmentally friendly, energy-conserving building practices and products in small buildings. We are a registered 501c3 organization.

[Green Building Forum]

The Green Building Forum is held on the third Wednesday of each month (except December) @6:30 PM and features presentations by green building practitioners followed by discussion. The events are always free and open to the general public, but space is limited. Please RSVP by email to: rsvp@GreenHomeNYC.org.

Please join us for our next forum: Delivering on the Promise of Green Collar Jobs: Challenges & Opportunities

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Presentation 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Pratt Manhattan 144 W 14th St, Rm. 213

This event is co-sponsored and hosted by Pratt.

Speakers

• Kris Reed, Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation (Moderator)
• Emmaia Gelman, Center for Working Families
• Rob Crauderueff, Sustainable South Bronx

Kristine Reed is Director of the Initiative for a Competitive Brooklyn, within the Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation. BEDC, founded in 1979, focuses on neighborhood and business support to create and sustain living wage jobs for Brooklyn residents; the Initiative for a Competitive Brooklyn identifies specific industry segments with special potential to grow and thrive over the next 5-7 years. She joined BEDC in 2006 after 25 years in financial services, both on staff and freelancing, with a specialty in marketing and product management with Citibank, Chase, and Mellon among others. A graduate of Barnard College, she and her family are long time Brooklyn residents

Emmaia Gelman has worked on housing, queer rights and other democracy issues in New York, Palestine and Ireland over the last 15 years. She is currently Senior Policy Organizer at the Center for Working Families, focusing on scaling up New York State's green economy with mass residential retrofits, green job ladders and tenant affordability safeguards. Her work includes bringing together labor, housing, environmental and community workforce groups to generate greening policy plans.

Rob Crauderueff, Policy Director of Sustainable South Bronx, oversees the political advocacy component of SSBx that focuses on creating equitable and effective land use, economic development, and environmental policies. Rob co-founded and chairs the Policy Committee of Storm Water Infrastructure Matters (S.W.I.M.), a coalition comprised of over 50 organizations citywide that advocates for swimmable waterways throughout NYC through green, cost-effective solutions. S.W.I.M. was instrumental in New York City Council's passage of Local Law 5, which mandates the city to create a Sustainable Storm Water Management Plan that includes green-collar job training & development. He also spearheaded S.W.I.M.'s successful effort to pass a green roof tax abatment for property owners in New York City. Rob earned a degree in Urban Studies from Columbia University, where he worked for the Columbia Earth Institute. He also performed a program analysis of sustainability initiatives in the "ecological and healthy" city of Loja, Ecuador, voted the 3rd most ecological city in the world by the United Nations.

• January Forum Notes: Affordable Housing
• February Forum Notes: Incentives for Rehab
• March Forum Notes: Buying a green home
• April Forum Notes: Green Materials Catwalk
• May Forum Notes: PlaNYC

[NYC Green Buildings Open House & Tour]

GreenHomeNYC hosts an annual tour of green buildings in New York City on the first Saturday of October. The event is a part of a regional and national day of open houses.

We've started to plan this year's Open House! We're expanding the number of tours and events (again!) -- check back with us for details! Read about the participating buildings in last year's event, or view photos from the event!

[Ask an Expert, Powered By BuildingGreen!]

GreenHomeNYC's Ask an Expert is a web feature that allows you to write in and get personalized answers to your sustainability-related questions. Thanks to our new partners at BuildingGreen, Ask an Expert is bigger and better than ever before. Whether you're looking for help on a particular project or just want to know more about an aspect of green building, GreenHomeNYC and BuildingGreen are here to help.

Ask a question or browse the archives, and be sure to visit BuildingGreen's site to see what they have to offer.

[Recent Press]

• See our very own Lauren Gropper talk in this May 2007 New York Times Magazine video.
  
  
• GreenHomeNYC gets a mention in this February 2007 City Limits article.
  
  
• The Aug/Sept 2006 issue of Plenty magazine profiles actor Adrian Grenier's green renovation project in Brooklyn. The article notes that GreenHomeNYC helped him locate materials and contractors.

[GreenHomeNYC / NESEA Partnership]

GreenHomeNYC is now the New York City Chapter for the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA). NESEA is a regional membership organization focused on promoting the understanding, development, and adoption of energy conservation and non-polluting, renewable energy technologies. To find out more, visit www.nesea.org.