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Larsen Plano writes about “Cool, Green, or Blue?” The environmentally responsible urban roof takes the stage in the October 2011 issue of Habitat Magazine.

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Larsen Plano, a former project manager at Community Environmental Center, writes about the variety of environmentally friendly roofs for Habitat Magazine, the city’s number one magazine for co-ops and condos.

Richard Cherry, President of Community Environmental Center, and Richard Klein of Quixotic Systems Inc., are authors of a feature article about Solar Hot Water (SHW) systems for co-operative apartment buildings.

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Richard Cherry, the founder and president of Community Environmental Center in Queens, New York, and Richard Klein, the president of Quixotic Systems Inc., in Manhattan, jointly authored this insightful feature article about the potential for using Solar Hot Water (SHW) systems in co-operative apartment buildings. The appeared in the September 2011 issue of Habitat Magazine.

Community Environmental Center article on dense-pack cellulose installation featured in Walls & Ceilings Magazine

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

This was originally posted in Walls & Ceilings Magazine on 8/25/2011. Enlarge this picture Dry, dense-pack cellulose is used to insulate a grand old home in a very new way In 2011, Bill Chaleff, of Chaleff & Rogers Architects, came to Community Environmental Center (CEC) with a challenging situation. Chaleff’s client, who owned a vintage [...]

Women in Tyvek: Hope in Nontraditional Green Jobs by Alexis Greene

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Alexis Greene writes about weatherization technician Ruby Carrasquillo in On the Issues Magazine.

Community Environmental Center One of Crain’s 2010 Best Places to Work

Monday, December 6th, 2010

Community Environmental Center, the Queens nonprofit dedicated to energy efficiency and green building solutions, has been named one of the 2010 Best Places to Work by Crain’s New York Business.

Larsen Plano, CEC’s solar thermal project director, writes about solar thermal for the December issue of ed+c magazine

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Excerpt: At Community Environmental Center (CEC) in Long Island City, Queens, we have long held that New York City’s multifamily buildings are a marvelous place for solar hot water (SHW) systems. Our latest and largest installation is a 42-panel system on Wadsworth Terrace in Northern Manhattan—NYC’s largest solar thermal system to date for a multifamily [...]

Richard Cherry, president of Community Environmental Center, writes about Solar Thermal: Renewable Energy for the Northeast

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Richard Cherry OP-ED Solar Thermal in the Northeast Cities: Click Here!

NY Daily News: With cool hand, Mayor Bloomberg helps paint town white for energy efficiency

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Read it on NY Daily News.com BY Adam Lisberg and Bob Kappstatter DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Thursday, October 14th 2010, 4:00 AM Mayor Bloomberg found himself involved in a whitewash Wednesday. But he was covering a rooftop and not a scandal. Hizzoner wielded a paintbrush to slap a reflective white coating to the 1 millionth [...]

Mike Bloomberg.com: CoolRoofs: Painting NYC White to Cut Greenhouse Emissions & Save on Energy Costs

Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

Oct 13, 2010  |  NYC.gov Read the rest at MikeBloomberg.com. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Chief Service Officer Diahann Billings-Burford and Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri today applied a reflective, white coating to the one millionth square foot of rooftop as a part of the NYC CoolRoofs program. Over the past year, more than 1,500 volunteers organized by NYC [...]

Greenpoint Star: Cool roofs are a hot idea in Greenpoint

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

by Holly Tsang 09.28.10 – 06:34 pm Read the full article at Greenpoint Star.com. On Friday, volunteers from Mayor Bloomberg’s NYC Service office armed with paint rollers prepared to get their hands and feet dirty as they coated the roof of Brooklyn Studios at 211 Meserole Avenue with white paint. Part of the city’s CoolRoofs [...]

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