Show your support for new clean energy jobs by contacting your representatives. This national organization makes it easy, just type in your zip code: 1sky.org You can also reach out to your reps directly. If you live in New York State, show your support for the Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Accountability Act of 2010 [...]
Community Environmental Center, Sunset Park Redevelopment Corporation and the Opportunity Development Association have received $12.9 million from the New York State Division of Housing and Urban Renewal to bring energy efficient retrofits to the 2700 affordable housing units of Brooklyn’s Lindsay Park
Community Environmental Center is implementing a state-of-the-art solar thermal system at Brooklyn’s Plaza de los Ancianos, affordable housing for senior citizens owned by the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, Inc.
Community Environmental Center, a New York City not-for-profit organization dedicated to energy efficiency and green building solutions, is responding to the urgent need for renewable energy by installing solar hot water systems in Brooklyn and Manhattan, including the largest installation for a NYC multifamily building, at Wadsworth Terrace in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood.
JetBlue Airways, the low-cost airline whose base is JFK International Airport, was ushered into New York City’s Cool Roofs Program by Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri and Community Environmental Center, the Queens-based non-profit organization that organizes the roof coatings for New York City’s Cool Roofs Program.
Kahryl Fann, a 21-year-year-old intern who commutes every day from Brooklyn’s Spring Creek Towers to the Community Environmental Center in Queens, is learning to weatherize homes and loving the work.
By Alexis Greene From the distance, the tan-colored brick buildings appear to rise slowly out of the haze, growing taller and taller as you drive toward them along Brooklyn’s Pennsylvania Avenue. They look like an urban Stonehenge, a monolithic stand of brick towers, bare against the sky. Upon arriving at Spring Creek Towers, however, the [...]
Community Environmental Center, the Queen’s based non-profit that is organizing NYC’s Cool Roofs Program, joined NYC officials for the launch at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City.
Richard Cherry, President of CEC, and Jay Ackley, Policy Associate, were invited to write an article on WAP+ for Home Energy. WAP+ goes beyond just weatherization, to include many more important factors related to energy efficiency, including: education, awareness, measurement, and more. Here is the beginning: In New York City, Weatherization Assistance program (WAP) subgrantees [...]
Read the full Article HERE Excerpt: “Originally a heavily industrial section of Brooklyn, Williamsburg eventually became largely residential. A haven for immigrants, it’s now home to a variety of well-established ethnic communities. During the 1980s and 1990s, the area’s affordable rents and sizeable spaces also began to draw artists fleeing Manhattan’s high-priced real estate, and [...]