French utility giant Areva buys Ausra, a US solar thermal power company. Plug in
Nantucket Wind: Still NoOpposition still blows in from all direction to the off-shore Cape Wind project. What's new?
Building A Financial BaseStaring soon, Fannie Mae will offer incentives to home buyers for energy-related improvements Energy Star loans will come to NY and professional appraisers will learn how to value residential energy-efficiency. Make it count
A current museum exhibit links Shanghai's new crop of super tall buildings to New York's Depression Era skyscrapers.
Nancy wonders if Shanghai's 21st Century structures are more energy efficient. Read the WSJ article and her comment »
Everyone's talking about "greening the code" as a critical path to 30x30.
Sallan commissioned the CUNY Building Performance Lab to assess the green potential of the NYC Building Code and report back.
Building FIx-Up Fund Booms
A UK investment group assembles $107.5 million for energy-efficiency renovations. All REIT!
Carbon Market FailureA British Parliamentary committee finds the market price for CO2 is not enough to curtail emissions. Look into it
Dim and DimmerInternational prospects for a new generation of nuclear power plants are not bright. Look ahead
In the Carbon Age
Green Expectations
Look into what the EPA can (and can't) do to regulate CO2 emissions. Rules rule
Power Up
Read this interview with two US experts on China's electric power sector. Connect here
Gray Power Now!
How to save the planet by using waste energy from manufacturing and farming to make electricity for the grid. Something new
At the Academy
Sustainable Glass?
Vitreous high-rise towers are icons of urban architecture that provide coveted views for those within. But from a sustainability perspective, building experts and climate advocates at the New York Academy of Sciences see problems with the energy performance of glassy, transparent façades. Get eBriefed »
To amend the old adage, the road to hell is paved with good intentions that can't be financed. What does this have to do with making energy efficient building New York's "new normal"? Full Article »
Our carbon-constrained future requires that we improve the energy efficiency of our building stock in order to achieve comfortable spaces at a minimum environmental and financial burden. Smart building technology has been developed and popularized as the key ingredient to achieving this scalable building energy-efficiency, but there are several key challenges to building energy efficiency that remain unresolved by smart building technology. Full Article »
Sallan Events (1/7)
Getting Legally Greener
Building operations produce 79% of NYC's carbon footprint and the time has come for that to change. Anticipating passage of New York City's greener, greater building legislation, Legally Green, a Sustainability Shoptalk Event presented by the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute, Baruch College, CUNY and Sallan, assembled a team of energy efficiency all-stars.
Accelerating Climate Solutions
New York's Climate Week, took place just 70 days before COP15. NYU-Poly's ACRE incubator hosted "New York City's Built Environment: Opportunity, Incentives and the Carbon Challenge".
Sallan's Executive Director, Nancy Anderson identifies the contribution to a greener built environment to be made by measuring and verifying the performance of innovative energy efficiency projects.
Kilowatts to Cash
CUNY's Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute attracted early adopters who want to cut energy costs, get ahead of the compliance curve, benefit their bottom line, and help reduce our city's carbon footprint. The Third Sustainability Shoptalk, "Turning Kilowatts to Cash", shows the way forward.
Iconic Or Ironic?
New Yorkers turn out for "Glass Buildings: The Energy Challenge" at the New York Academy of Sciences. Click to view edited segments.
See What You Missed
There was standing-room-only to hear Jerome Ringo deliver the Apollo Alliance message about how the federal stimulus package can deliver good jobs and a greener NYC. Event Photos »
Tomorrowland
What do the experts see when they look into the future of nuclear power? Find out now! Get up to speed and see event photos. Click Here
Building a Greener Gotham
Miss the panel on how New York's building and energy codes can help create a Greener Gotham? It's not too late to catch up! Download PowerPoint Presentations and see event photos. Click Here
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Can Carbon Credits Be Credible?
11 Mar
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?
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Green Jobs Summit
12 Mar
Don't miss the first in a series of programs to define what green jobs are, how to get training for them, and how to enter the new green economy.
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Rising Currents: Projects for NY's Waterfront
24 Mar
MoMA and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center joined forces to address one of the most urgent challenges facing the nation's largest city: sea-level rise resulting from global climate change. An architects-in-residence program brought together five interdisciplinary teams to re-envision the coastlines of NY and NJ around NY Harbor and to imagine new ways to occupy the harbor itself with adaptive "soft" infrastructures that are sympathetic to the needs of a sound ecology. These creative solutions are intended to dramatically change our relationship to one of the city's great open spaces. March 24 – August 9, 2010
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On The Changing Waterfront
28 Apr
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. Don't miss Turning the Tide: New York's waterfront in Transition. Four panels: February 24, March 17, April 7 & 28
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