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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

People Profiles

Jay Ackley of CEC: A Minnesotan in Gotham

Monday, August 30th, 2010

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 cliché,” says Jay Ackley during lunch at the LIC restaurant La Vuelta one torrid August day, “but I do [...]

Donna Parris: Woman of Many Lives

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Donna Parris is a woman of many lives. “I started out as a nurse,” she says jauntily, sitting one July morning in CEC’s conference room. And as she begins her story, what are intended to be the ingredients of a profile become episodes in a saga. A profile, after all, is only a partial view [...]

Leroy Anthony: Weatherization Expert, CEC Historian

Monday, May 24th, 2010

“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.”      Leroy should know. He manages the crews that roll out of CEC every morning, to bring energy efficiency [...]

Roger Lamour: Assistant Controller at CEC

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

The earthquake struck Haiti at 4:53:10 on Tuesday, January 12. In Port-au-Prince, the capital, buildings tumbled, burying people under immense, jagged stone and concrete hills. Massive cracks zigzagged through the buildings left standing, and the president’s three-story palace collapsed into one level, as though a monster had trod across its back. Haiti would later estimate [...]

Gwen McLaughlin: Explorer at CEC

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

A poster about Sylvia Earle hangs on the bulletin board over Gwen McLaughlin’s desk at CEC. Earle, who was born in New Jersey in 1935, is one of the foremost oceanographers in the world. At the age of 75, she still descends to the bottom of the ocean, to study the flora and fauna that [...]

Alvin Pettway: A Unique Heritage

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

It was a highlight in Alvin Pettway’s life: in 2002 he walked into an art exhibit called “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend” and there on the walls of the Whitney Museum hung vivid quilts created by generations of Pettways, and photographs of his ancestors, including his grandmother. But perhaps even more rewarding was the day [...]

Patrick Goodluck: Artist and Weatherization Expert

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

“Some people think that having a black belt in Karate is the ultimate prize,” says Patrick Goodluck, on-site manager for CEC’s weatherization crews and Karate artist extraordinaire. “It is not. In our philosophy, you reach the mountaintop, where do you go from there? Start over. A belt is a symbolic gesture of your progression in [...]