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Most Recent 10 Articles

Community Environmental Center joins Queens Library for “Greening Libraries” Project
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Weatherization Funding: Surviving by the Skin of Our Teeth, by Alexis Greene
Friday, December 23rd, 2011

Luck of the Irish – A Winner of the CEC Raffle
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Want to create jobs? Consider an Energy Corps, by Richard Cherry
Friday, December 9th, 2011

Community Environmental Center Installs Solar Thermal System at JCC on Staten Island
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Community Environmental Center Is LEED Consultant for LEED Gold Dormitory at Queens College
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

The partnership between Green City Force and Community Environmental Center, by Lisbeth Shepherd
Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Helen M. Marshall, President of the Borough of Queens, Proclaims Tuesday, November 1, Community Environmental Center Weatherization Day
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Community Environmental Center receives Service Merit Award from NYSERDA
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Community Environmental Center to celebrate Weatherization Day November 1
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Richard M. Cherry, President of Community Environmental Center, Receives E-Chievement Award at ETown Radio Taping

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Contact: Alexis Greene, agreene@cecenter.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

Long Island City, NY (December 9, 2009) — Richard M. Cherry, president of Community Environmental Center (CEC), the New York City-based nonprofit dedicated to energy efficiency and green building solutions, received eTown’s E-Chievement Award on Monday, December 7, at a radio taping at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City.

Interviewed on stage by eTown co-host Nick Forster, Cherry spoke movingly about the need for weatherization assistance to low-income homeowners and city residents, the core of CEC’s work.

“The environment begins at your threshold,” said Cherry. ” Energy conservation on the part of people who live and work in cities can have a hugely positive impact on our planet.”

Cherry also stressed that making homes and other buildings energy efficient benefits the environment, and that New York City is one of the most energy-efficient urban centers in the U.S.

The interview will air and podcast December 23-28.

ETown is a weekly one-hour radio show that is carried by more than 270 commercial and non-commercial stations in the US and around the world. A non-profit organization, eTown’s mission is to educate, entertain and inspire a wide-ranging audience through music and conversation, and to create a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable world.

Community Environmental Center (CEC) was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit organization, to bring building energy performance technologies and services to a wide-ranging market. It was the first New York City non-profit to focus on environmental issues in housing and development. CEC is the umbrella organization for Build It Green www.BIGNYC.org and for Solar One www.solar1.org