http://toeprintproject.com Reduce your footprint one strategy at a time. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:33:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're participating an a public art project called Seeding the City. The project aims to install tiny green roof modules (about 4 square feet each) on a large number of city roofs and mark them with flags so they can be visually linked to one another. These links come from neighbor ... http://toeprintproject.com/?p=1526 An article in The Brooklyn Paper has more in depth information about the actual process involved with being allowed to bring your bike up to your office. http://toeprintproject.com/?p=1524 This week is green buildings policy week at the Toeprint Project! Yesterday, the City Council passed the Greener Greater Buildings Plan including 4 new laws requiring Energy Audits and Retrocommissioning for buildings over 50,000 SF, Benchmarking, the creation of a NYC Energy Code and new requirement about lighting upgrades and submetering. More ... http://toeprintproject.com/?p=1515 Check out the latest version of Green Queen!  Click here for a .pdf format. Details are: October 14th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm One Jackson Square 122 Greenwich Avenue, NYC $10 at the door to cover costs. Thanks to our sponsor, Susan Singer, SVP, The Corcoran Group, NYC's first Eco-Broker. www.susansingerspaces.com. Green Queen - Chapter ... http://toeprintproject.com/?p=1432 Want to make your home more environmentally responsible? Come to a Teach-In on October 14th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at One Jackson Square (122 Greenwich Avenue, NYC) about sustainable strategies you can implement in your home. Our goal is to have New York City be a model in sustainability as well ... http://toeprintproject.com/?p=1327 On Monday, September 21st at 3:30 Ellen is giving a talk with Matt Bendix, PE entitled "Energy Code Design for Residential Buildings".  The event will be hosted by HOK Architects at 620 Avenue of the Americas #6, NYC. This session is part of the NYC Department of Buildings - Hosted Seminars in ... http://toeprintproject.com/?p=1319 On each House Call I learn something new! On one site visit this week I saw a fantastic bathroom timer switch. You can set it to have the fan stay on for 1 to 60 minutes (The Home Ventilation Institute recommends keeping an exhaust fan on 20 minutes after using a ... http://toeprintproject.com/?p=1273 This is a follow up post about the Green Team program at the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women, It was incredible working with these 11 spirited girls.  Their presentation showing what they learned about ecology and green building  was lively and informative. Look what they did in ... http://toeprintproject.com/?p=1233 This is a post from Green Architecture Notes published by Feldman Architecture out in San Francisco.  It describes an energy-neutral house proposed to be constructed next year. With all the building trends moving towards sustainability here in New York City, it is still SO MUCH more difficult to do a net-zero ... http://toeprintproject.com/?p=962   We just heard about the Windsor Terrace Greenway Project. The group's mission is to encourage residents in the Windsor Terrace area to plant butterfly and bird friendly plants to support travel for birds and butterflies between Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery (see map below). We live just outside the greenway but we'll ... http://toeprintproject.com/?p=946