From 2007-2010, the Sierra Club got $25 million from the natural gas industry, but now rejects natural gas as a bridge to a low carbon future
Love Those Quantum DotsQuantum dots could be the newest way to increase PV panel energy output
San Jose Shines In The SunSan Jose is California's solar star with home PV installations rising 45.4% last year
Story to Watch in 2012
Behind the scenes in Albany, our elected officials are discussing how to roll out more solar. The New York Solar Industry Development and Jobs Act (A05713) is a new bill that's generating a lot of heat.
The people in our region who have the greatest expertise in assembling solar projects from roof tops to utility scale programs were brought together on December 5th at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway.
Sponsored by McCarter & English, LLP and organized by Cleantech Corridor with the participation of the Sallan Foundation and NYIT.
Sallan commissioned the CUNY Building Performance Lab to assess the green potential of the NYC Building Code and report back.
Higher, Greener Education
Learn about STARS, a streamlined tool to rank American colleges' green achievements
Let There Be Solar - Not Good Enough
New solar technology is not the only solution to get electricity to people who need it most
Science At Work
Nobel Prize-winners explain how climate science can be both reliable and incomplete
An Australian coal and iron ore executive appoints a climate change skeptic geologist to her corporate boards of directors
UK: Energy and Environmental Minister OutChris Huhne, the minister for environment and energy, resigns due to criminal charges arising from a speeding ticket scandal
China: Shrinks Solar-Demo SupportCiting declining PV prices, China cuts back on support for pilot solar power projects
If you missed any of the panels in our four part series or would like to download panelist presentations, peruse the multi-media recaps.
A High Performance Building Series white paper is also available in PDF format for download. This printable write-up of each the four events in the Reimagining the Metropolis series also includes a round-up of the first HPB series featuring pioneers in the field.
Revisit New York's High Performance Building frontier with the Pioneers.
Scrolling through a list of New York City public buildings that are being propelled into the 21st century with energy audits and efficiency makeovers, I found the monumental art deco Brooklyn Central Library on Grand Army Plaza. As a high school student, I spent many Saturdays there combing through the stacks looking for materials on historical subjects and I vividly recall finding Civil War era documents that crumbled to dust as I turned the pages.
Our urban environments need to simultaneously become more sustainable and meet greater resource demands, but can we evolve from the city of today to the sustainable city of tomorrow when, as the Urban Land Institute estimates, 80% of our existing building stock will still be in use in 2030?
Sallan Events (1/8)
Market Makers:
Developing & Deploying Energy Efficiency Technology in NYC
Stay tuned for the second Market Makers panel Wrap-Up — coming in January 2012.
Learn how New York property owners, tenants and retrofit teams are leading the way toward making energy efficiency the hallmark of big city real-estate and helping Gotham thrive.
Market Makers:
Developing & Deploying Energy Efficiency Technology in NYC
A panel exploring the emergence and growth of New York City's clean tech sector via case studies on green building advances and locally-sourced efficiency technologies — an Official Event of Climate Week NYºC 2011 — took place at the National Academy of Sciences.
Re-imagining the Metropolis:
Visions For A Near Future
Now, we must accelerate our pace — in understanding and rethinking city functions — to reinvent the metropolis. In this final forum of our series, panelists explored how New York will be challenged and may be transformed by emerging trends.
Reimagining the Metropolis:
Revolution is No Joke
A Banker, A Lawyer & An Underwriter Walk Into A Bar — our 3rd event of a 4-part series — got serious about developing the means to assign monetary value to high performance properties, tracking and comparing their performance as well as tackling thorny issues of code enforcement and LEEDigation.
Reimagining the Metropolis:
Making it Happen
Our second event of a four part series on high performance building in New York City zeroed in on public policy developments, private sector innovation and how they have intersected over the last half-decade.
Reimagining the Metropolis:
The Big Picture
Our sold-out first event at the AIA New York Center for Architecture conveyed the Big Picture — a wide-angle view of what has been achieved, what's been learned and what's next for New York City's revolution in high performance building.
Get Past the Past: Climate Change Adaptation In & Around NYC
Presented as a part of Climate Week NY°C in partnership with the New York Academy of Sciences, the Sallan Foundation co-sponsored a panel discussion to find out how experts think through complex climate adaptation issues — some of which are well beyond the realm of past experience — and how decisions about adaptation are being made.
Smart Grid For Smart Cities
The US faces a four-part crisis: climate change and rising emissions linked to energy consumption; volatile energy prices and affordability; energy security; and electric power reliability in the face of spiraling demand.
Smart Grid For Smart Cities, a conference held at NYU Wagner, plugged into the potential for power system solutions at the urban scale.
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One Prize 2011
11 Feb
ONE PRIZE is an annual design and science award to promote green design in cities. ONE PRIZE 2011 turned its focus to New York and its waterways, re-imagining recreational space, public transportation, local industry, and native environment in the city and the Water as the Sixth Borough competition received submissions from 256 people from 18 countries and 5 continents. January 18 - February 11
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Designing The Healthcare Facility Of The Future
22 Feb
Now is the time to focus on innovative hospital design features, both for new construction and retrofit projects.
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Searching For Common Metrics
23 Feb
Now's the time for the 2nd Annual Conference on Sustainable Real Estate Energy Performance, Risk & Real Estate Markets: Searching for Common Metrics
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Wall Street Green Summint
19 Mar
Hear it here first! The Wall Street Green Summit XI is a "one-stop-shop" to come up to speed on the latest developments in green trading and finance. March 19 & 20
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