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Community Environmental Center Receives $3 Million DOE Grant for Innovative Weatherization Project
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Jay Ackley of CEC: A Minnesotan in Gotham
Monday, August 30th, 2010

Lack of Will on Cap & Trade Undermines Recovery and Hurts Climate, But Is There a Future for HomeStar?
Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Donna Parris: Woman of Many Lives
Monday, July 26th, 2010

Community Environmental Center and other agencies receive $12.9 million from DHCR for affordable housing weatherization
Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Community Environmental Center leads a state-of-the-art solar thermal project for the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council
Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Community Environmental Center is installing solar thermal systems in New York City
Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Community Environmental Center Welcomes JetBlue Airways to the Cool Roofs Movement
Monday, June 21st, 2010

21-year-old Spring Creek Towers resident is learning to weatherize homes
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Spring Creek Towers: A City Within The City
Monday, June 7th, 2010

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

NICK FORSTER TALKS WITH RICHARD M. CHERRY AT ETOWN TAPING

Nick Forster talks with Richard M. Cherry (right) at eTown Taping on Dec 7

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