SIMS Recycling PlantTour
Join GreenHomeNYC for a tour of the state-of-the-art SIMS municipal recycling plant in Sunset Park.
Date: Monday, October 14th
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Location: 472 2nd Avenue, Brooklyn
By supporting GreenHomeNYC with a tax-deductible donation, you are helping us develop sustainability-focused programs, events, and networking opportunities.
Join us for a conversation on ways to mitigate food waste, compost and other ways to combat climate change which have become sustainable food trends of the new decade.
In addition, a volunteer orientation will take place right before the event, starting at 6 PM. If you’re interested in joining GreenHomeNYC as a volunteer, please sign up at http://greenhomenyc.org/get-involved/
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Place: WeWork – Tower 49, 12 E 49th Street, 18th Floor
Speakers for the event will include:
Sabine Valenga // Co-Founder at Food for All
More speakers to be announced.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR), is how companies pursue sustainability goals, give back to their local communities, and make general efforts to improve society via the lens of business. This is your opportunity to ask the professionals about their career history and how you too could possibly transition your career into related work. Informal networking will follow at a local venue.
Speakers include:
Judy Albert – The New School
Julie Jack – APCO Worldwide
Ashley Hartman – Verisk
By Gahl S. Spanier
View on the wind turbine
Once you’ve gotten use out of an item and decide to recycle it, you might conclude that it has become worthless. In fact, the opposite is true; when you recycle an item in NYC, it will participate in a vast economy of disposal and repurposing. The NYC Department of Sanitation brings most of it to the SIMS recycling center, a facility operating under a private-public partnership between the SIMS corporation and NYC. The partnership involves a pricing scheme in which the city pays SIMS a nominal recycling fee for every bale absorbed by the facility, but this price drops or may even reverse into a payment to the city based on the revenue SIMS gets, converting the recyclables into useful raw materials.
GreenHomeNYC Forums Planning Committee wishes you a Happy New Year!
Our first GreenhomeNYC forum for 2020 will be our annual Green Catwalk. There is a diverse lineup of speakers from various industries that will discuss new trends, technologies, innovations, and projects in the environmental sustainability sphere. Our speakers’ professions range from research coordinators, architects, energy and sustainability entrepreneurs, and product consultants, among others.
This year topics include:
Presenters include:
Tom Sahagian, Independent Energy-Efficiency Consultant
Frank Maricic NYC 2030 Districts
Haym Gross NYC 2030 Districts
Jeremy Latriano, 475 High Performance Building Supply
Lidia Henderson, Empire Clean Cities
Amina Hassen, WXY Studio
Krystal Persaud, Grouphug
Join us this Wednesday January 15 at the Fujitsu Airstage!
