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June 23, 2009

“The Greening of Southie” at Symphony Space

In July, The Greening of Southie, a documentary that tells the story of designing, building and selling the first LEED Gold residential building in Boston, will be showing at Symphony Space, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Screenings will be July 5, 12, and 19. If you missed seeing it at our November 2008 forum, or if you’re inspired to take your friends and family along with you, here’s your chance! Also check out the New Yorker piece on the Earth Day screenings of The Greening of Southie at Locals 40 and 361 in Astoria, a project that GreenHomeNYC had the privilege of supporting. Read more about Wicked Delicate, the production company run by Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney on their website, wickedelicate.com.

November 16, 2008

“The Greening of Southie”: The hardhat crowd on Boston’s first residential LEED Gold building

“I use the double flush method all the time,” cackles a construction worker learning about dual flush toilets in the film, ‘The Greening of Southie’. Told from the point of view of the people responsible for designing, building, and selling the first LEED-Gold residential building in Boston, the film replaces regular folks for talking heads in this exploration of what it means to be green. (more…)
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