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.
11 March
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
RSVP: More information and registration NYAS
17 March
Greening Commercial Corridors In Brooklyn
Greening Commercial Corridors: Implementing Sustainable Practices with Small Businesses
How can Brooklyn's commercial districts implement sustainable practices? This seminar will provide tangible steps to implement green initiatives and discuss how BIDs and commercial revitalization managers can coordinate efforts with individual businesses to promote sustainability and the commercial corridor.
Sponsor: Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation
Moderator: Anne Pope, Sustainable Flatbush
Panelists: Tara DePorte, Lower East Side Ecology Center; Heather Govern, Energy $mart Communities (at Pratt Center); Melissa Lee, Mayor’s Office of Comp. Neighborhood Economic Development; Adam Pasquale, Action Carting; TBD, Tri-State Biodiesel
Date:: March 17, 2010 - 8:30-10:30am
Location: Brooklyn Public Library’s Business Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West
RSVP: Rachel Thieme, rthieme@bedc.org or (718) 368-6783
20 March
Neighborhood Energy Forum
Join us for a free and informative practical session to learn about funding for energy efficiency improvements for single and multi-family residential buildings. Sponsored by our Energy Solutions Initiative in partnership with National Grid, NYSERDA, Ellen Honigstock Architect PC, and Flatbush Development Corporation.
Sponsor: Sustainable Flatbush
Presenters: Solar One, NYSERDA, National Grid, LEED & BPI-certified architect Ellen Honigstock, and more.
Date: Saturday, March 20 9:30 am-2 pm
Location: Brooklyn College Student Center, Campus Road and East 27th Street, Brooklyn
More information: Free event. Sustainable Flatbush
28 April
On The Changing Waterfront
In 1609, New Yorks future waterfront was an arcadian shore of forests, wetlands, beaches, and sand bars, according to Eric Sanderson's book Mannahatta. That landscape is lost forever, but visions of a post-industrial, neo-natural waterfront are longstanding.
In 1944, futurists Paul and Percival Goodman proposed that Manhattan "open out toward the water, lining its gritty waterfront with new parks. They were prescient: today the waters edge of Manhattan is evolving from a "no-man's-land" into a "highly desirable zone of parks," in the words of writer Phillip Lopate.
The newly designated Manhattan Waterfront Greenway is cobbled together from many bits and pieces like Battery Park City, Hudson River Park, Riverside Park South, restored Harlem River parks, and tiny Stuyvesant Cove Parkeach with its own chronicle of past and present struggles among property owners, community groups, developers, politicians, planners, lawyers, and other stakeholders. Elsewhere in the city, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, Governors Island, the South Bronx Greenway, Pelham Bay South Waterfront Park, the Bronx River Greenway, and Gateway National Recreation Area are among many waterfront works in progress.
Turning the Tide: New York's Waterfront in Transition will address selected topics and issues relating to what has been achieved and what remains to be done to continue the transformation of New Yorks waterfronts.
Sponsors: Dr. Rutherford H. Platt for the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, in collaboration with the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Dates: Wednesdays, February 24, March 17, April 7 & April 28, 5:30-7:30 pm
Location: Session I: Faculty Dining Room, Hunter College West Building, E. 68th St and Lexington Ave
Session II, III, IV: The Roosevelt House for Public Policy Institute at Hunter College , 47-49 E. 65th Street
RSVP & Information: Contact Brigid Ripley, 212.3966264 or bripley@hunter.cuny.edu
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Forging partnerships in the City's dense civic and environmental networks is crucial to meeting Sallan's goals. Partnering is a powerful tool for educating the public about the paths leading to high performance cities. It is also the best tool in the kit for cultivating effective action because fruitful partnerships can give birth to something new by bringing together experts with opinion and decision makers and by drawing in both advocates and skeptics.
