Now we know. New York's become a center of high performance building. From the glittering Hearst Tower to the Brooklyn Ice House, we're making environmental goals and economic rationality work together. "High Performance Building in New York City", a four-part panel series, showcased this success.
NYC HPB Report (4)
December 31, 2005
Fourth in a series of four panels that took a look at New York City's high performance buildings.
The panel brought together key environmental, architectural, public and economic development policy makers, the "practical visionaries" who are transforming the City's built environment.
October 30, 2005
Third in a series of four panels that look at New York City's high performance buildings. The October 19 forum brought together architects and developers who are transforming the City's built environment.
NYC HPB Report (2)September 30, 2005
Second in a series of four panels that look at New York City's high performance buildings. The September 29 forum heard from client and development innovators who are transforming the City's built environmental by demanding green building design for their projects.
NYC HPB Report (1)June 22, 2005
First in a series of four panels that will address New York City High Performance Buildings the June 8th forum dealt with the policy implications of the New York City Energy Policy Task Force Report.
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March 11, 2010
Can Carbon Credits Be Credible?
The terms of the domestic and international debate over how to address climate change are shape-shifting while carbon offset credits endure as a tool of climate-change policy. Can carbon offsets achieve cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gases? Are methods proposed for measuring and verifying offsets up to the task-at-hand? Don't miss Carbon Offset Credits: Making Them Credible in Climate-Change Policy
Sponsor: Green Science & Environmental Policy Discussion Group and the Environmental Sciences Section of the New York Academy of Sciences
Speakers: Sasha Lyutse, Natural Resources Defense Council - "The Role of Offsets in a US Cap-and-Trade System: Framing the Political Debate" and Alexia Kelly, World Resources Institute
Moderator: Nancy Anderson, Executive Director, The Sallan Foundation
Date: Thursday March 11, 2010, 6-8 pm
Location: New York Academy of Sciences, 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, 40th Floor
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