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aahassonjee
New York NY United States Member Since: 06/16/2016
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Following great celebration over the ratification of the Paris Climate Accords, 170 nations reached a new binding deal this October on the reduction of global hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) use. HFCs are common chemical coolants used in air-conditioners and refrigerators, and are a particularly powerful source of greenhouse heating for the planet, as their heat-trapping effect is a thousand times that of carbon dioxide. The deal, negotiated in ...
By aahassonjee Last updated: 04/04/2023 + Show |
Passive House & Prefabricated Homes: The Way Forward?
With evolving building standards, certifications and processes, there has never been a better time for architects, contractors, consultants, and supply companies to unite and create a truly green future. High performance prefab firm Ecocor and passive house architecture firm Richard Pedranti Architect (RPA) recently announced a significant partnership to build certified passive house prefabricated homes across the northeast. By using Ecocor&...
By aahassonjee Last updated: 04/04/2023 + Show |
Trump's Newest Executive Order- A Stab against the Climate and the American Economy
President Trump yesterday signed a new executive order that rolls back the Obama-era Clean Power Plan at a ceremony at the EPA hosting (with extreme audacity) a delegation of coal-miners. The executive order is intended to protect coal jobs by continuing to run power plants that had been marked for closure under the Clean Power Plan. It also ends...
By aahassonjee 1 reply Last updated: 03/29/2017 + Show |
Post Election '16: What Can You Do?
On Tuesday, November 11th, climate change and the environment seemed to become casualties of what had been the most bizarre and stressful U.S. Presidential election of recent times. Political and economic reverberations have continued to expand as President-elect Trump has been forming his administration, u-turning on several issues including...
By aahassonjee Last updated: 11/28/2016 + Show |
Blue vs. Red: Who Will Solve America's Climate Problems?
As November 2nd approaches, Democrats and Republicans face an election day that follows quite an eventful election season of emotions and surprises, with the least surprising being the extreme divide between both major parties’ climate change policy positions. Simply put, the Democratic party states that climate change is a real and pressing...
By aahassonjee Last updated: 09/22/2016 + Show |
Passive House & Prefabricated Homes: The Way Forward?
With evolving building standards, certifications and processes, there has never been a better time for architects, contractors, consultants, and supply companies to unite and create a truly green future. High performance prefab firm Ecocor and passive house architecture firm Richard Pedranti Architect (RPA) recently announced a significant...
By aahassonjee Last updated: 09/21/2016 + Show |
International Passive House Days Kickoff Party, November 11, 5-8 pm, Brooklyn
International Passive House Days Kickoff Party November 11, 5-8 pm, NYC Carroll Gardens Passive House 16 3rd Place, Brooklyn NY, New York, NY The 13th annual Passive House Days in New York, a series of events and passive house meetups across the city, will begin with a kickoff party at the Carroll Gardens Passive House, a recently...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/11/2016 + Show |
Passive House Days Open House - New York Passive House (NYPH) Friday November 11, 3:30 pm, NYC 377 East 10th Street Manhattan, New York, NY Paul A. Castrucci, Architect presents Passive House retro-fit of 6 story tenement in East Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Lead agency on the project, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/11/2016 + Show |
Help Build What’s Next - New York City November 10, 1:30-4:30 pm google 76 9th Ave New York, NY 10011 Are you a Sustainable Building Leader, or... Do you Want to be? Check out this promising workshop series, hosted by cradle2cradle, BuildingGreen, and google: Built Positive workshops are for thought leaders in the built...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/10/2016 + Show |
Bill McKibben "On the fate of the Earth" Lecture - Thursday, November 10, 7-8:30, NY NY
Bill McKibben ON THE FATE OF THE EARTH by The Nation Institute, The New School, and the Tishman Environment and Design Center a Thursday, November 10 7 – 8:30 PM EST The New School University Center Tishman Auditorium 63 5th Avenue New York, NY 10003 The Nation Institute and the Gould Family are hosting the first of the annual...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/10/2016 + Show |
Urban Green Council (UGC) Green Gala - November 10, 6 - 10 pm, NYC
Urban Green Council (UGC) Green Gala November 10, 6 - 10 pm The Altman Building 135 West 18th St New York, NY 10011 The Urban Green Council will be hosting its annual Urban Green Gala, the premier green building celebration in NYC, at the Altman Building on November 10th from 6 - 8 pm. The event will honor Hector Figueroa, President of...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/10/2016 + Show |
BEx: Code Update- Lighting, November 9, 6-8 pm, Manhattan
BEx: Code Update- Lighting November 9, 6-8 pm Building Energy Exchange 31 Chambers St, Suite 609 New York, NY 10007 Join the Building Energy Exchange for a summary dialogue and panel discussion on the new 2016 NYC Energy Conservation Code, focusing on lighting changes since the previous 2014 NYC code. Topics: what is the new code, the...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/09/2016 + Show |
Greentown Labs EnergyBar - Wednesday, November 9, 2016 5:30 - 8:30 PM, Boston
Greentown Labs EnergyBar Wednesday, November 9, 2016 5:30 - 8:30 PM, Boston EnergyBar is Greentown Labs' monthly networking event devoted to helping people in clean technology meet and discuss innovations in energy technology. Entrepreneurs, investors, students, and ‘friends of cleantech,’ are invited to attend, meet colleagues, and expand...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/09/2016 + Show |
UGC Forum: Achieving the Carbon Challenge for Hospitals (Nov.7/6-8pm/77 Water St.)
Join Urban Green Council for Achieving the NYC Carbon Challenge for hospitals. The NYC Carbon Challenge is a groundbreaking public-private partnership between the City of New York and private and institutional sectors aimed at accelerating reductions in the GHG emissions from buildings. The program—launched in 2007—now includes 17 of the...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/07/2016 + Show |
NYPH PHPPv.9 Training (Nov.4/9-5pm/334 Douglass St, BK)
Join New York Passive House for PHPPv9: What's New from Version 8 and Why. With the release of v9, PHPP has undergone its biggest upgrade since 2007. In this 1-day masterclass course, participants will explore the new features and updates of the software. Case studies will enhance and reinforce learning. INTENDED AUDIENCE Intermediate and...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/04/2016 + Show |
BuildingEnergy NYC Conference - Nov. 3rd
Check out the upcoming BuildingEnergy NYC 1-day conference being held at the TKP Conference center in New York on November 3rd! Nearly 700 professionals and 20 exhibitors are expected for the event which will be chaired by Lauren Brust Moss of NORESCO and Ken Levenson of 475 High Performance Building Supply. Attendees will get a premier...
By aahassonjee Event Date: 11/03/2016 + Show |