Category Archives: People Profiles

• Monday, 07 May 2012 16:18 CEC Interviews Loretta Tapia about the NYC CoolRoofs Program Posted by Alexis Greene Loretta Tapia of Community Environmental Center (CEC), in charge of inspecting sites for the NYC CoolRoofs Program, is interviewed by CEC's Alexis Greene....

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• Thursday, 02 February 2012 11:03 Paul Chang: Taking on the Retrofit Challenge Posted by Alexis Greene The 46 buildings of Spring Creek Towers, the mammoth affordable housing complex in Brooklyn, rise up into the skyline like brick monoliths. Sturdy if not aesthetically enticing, they provide 15,000 tenants with comfortable, reasonably priced apartments....

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• Wednesday, 17 August 2011 10:52 Music Man at CEC Posted by Alexis Greene Have you ever watched Ahmad Sharbaan while he’s at CEC? The man never stands still. He moves constantly, giving instructions, taking a call, making another call – cell phone a permanent accessory at his ear.  Even...

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• Thursday, 12 May 2011 13:06 Thelma Arceo: CEC’s Technical Services Director Is a World Traveler Posted by Alexis Greene The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience.  The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.  He goes “sight-seeing.”  ~Daniel J. Boorstin   Thelma Arceo...

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• Wednesday, 23 March 2011 13:22 Richard Cherry, CEC’s president, talks at Princeton University about second careers Posted by Alexis Greene   Usually at around this time I write a profile of a CEC employee. But last February 25 Richard Cherry spoke at Princeton about what it means to be “engaged at every age,” and he talked...

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• Monday, 31 January 2011 16:13 Christina Procolam–the New Face of Purchasing at CEC Posted by Alexis Greene The self-possessed young woman sitting in a cubicle near the windows on the second floor is in charge of what is possibly the beating heart of CEC: purchasing. After all, where would CEC’s WAP or fee-for-service...

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• Wednesday, 01 December 2010 16:16 Tony Scariolo of CEC: the Vietnam Vet who loves motor cycles, pit bulls and family. Posted by Alexis Greene The images of the Vietnam War exist uneasily in our memories. First come the grainy, black-and-white films of soldiers weighed down with backpacks and M14s. Then the still color photographs: HH-3 helicopters hovering over walls of...

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• Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:05 Aubrey Edwards: December 26, 1964 – September 22, 2010 Posted by Alexis Greene AUBREY EDWARDS December 26, 1964, Guyana – September 22, 2010, New York City Very sadly, we lost Aubrey Edwards last week. Aubrey first came to CEC on February 9, 2004. He had written on his job...

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• Monday, 30 August 2010 14:31 Jay Ackley of CEC: A Minnesotan in Gotham Posted by Alexis Greene By day he is Community Environmental Center’s policy analyst, by night he’s an acoustic guitarist playing gigs with his band. Always he’s a Minnesota ex-pat making a life in the Big Apple. “It sounds like a...

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• Monday, 24 May 2010 14:07 Leroy Anthony: Weatherization Expert, CEC Historian Posted by Alexis Greene “I think single houses are more challenging than multistory buildings,” says Leroy Anthony of CEC. “Because we go into closets, we go behind walls. We go into attics and crawl spaces. It’s more demanding all around.”...

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