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Community Environmental Center is installing solar thermal systems in New York City
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Community 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.
Community Environmental Center Welcomes JetBlue Airways to the Cool Roofs Movement
Monday, June 21st, 2010JetBlue 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.
21-year-old Spring Creek Towers resident is learning to weatherize homes
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010Kahryl 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.
Spring Creek Towers: A City Within The City
Monday, June 7th, 2010By 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 [...]
YourNabe.com: Con Ed, city launch Cool Roofs program developed in LIC
Thursday, May 20th, 2010BY CHAUNCEY ALCORN Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:11 AM EDT Read the full article at YourNabe.com. As summer approaches and the weather heats up, New York City and Con Edison officials are planning to keep the city and parts of Queens cool while lowering energy costs using a new, green-technology program called Cool Roofs, which [...]
Community Environmental Center weatherizing 5,881 apartments in Brooklyn’s Spring Creek Towers
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Community Environmental Center (CEC), the Queens, NY company dedicated to energy efficiency and green building, will use support from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to retrofit 5,881 apartments in the nation’s largest federally assisted housing complex.
Community Environmental Center helps launch NYC Cool Roofs Program
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Community 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.
CEC Featured on Cover of Home Energy
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010Richard 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 [...]
Clinton Climate Initiative: Goal Is To Cool 1 Million Square Feet of Rooftop in 2010
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010Read the full article at c40cities.org 11 May 2010 Program Includes City Buildings Such As the Headquarters of the Department of Buildings and an NYPD Precinct Stationhouse Component of Mayor Bloomberg’s Pledge to Reduce Energy Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions with Cool Roofs Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri and NYC Service today joined Con Edison Vice [...]
ED+C Magazine features Greenbelt, Brooklyn’s 1st LEED-NC Gold building
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010Read 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 [...]
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