All Posts Tagged With: "carbon footprint"
NYU Students and Faculty Strive to be Green Giants
New York University daily student newspaper Washington Square News reported yesterday on the recent efforts by NYU to reduce its environmental footprint and increase awareness of green issues. The NYU administration recently announced three new sustainability initiatives designed to save energy and money, as well as educate students and faculty. NYU Sustainability Task Force project administrator Jerry Friedman told the paper that university has “the opportunity to be a leader in environmental scholarship. No school is doing more than we are.” Among the environmental programs planned are an Educating for Sustainability lecture series and a “teach-in” related to green building. Robert Gottleib, author of the book Forcing the Spring: Transforming the American Environmental Movement, will be speaking about urban environmental policy on March 10, and past lecture topics include global warming and ecology.
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15Feb2008 | Meredith Taylor | 1 comment | Continued
Firmdale’s Crosby Street Hotel Set to Seek LEED Gold in SoHo
The Crosby Street Hotel has been registered with USGBC since early April, but details about the project- which will seek a Gold rating under LEED for New Construction- have been hard to come by. Still, the hotel should open by the close of 2008, and given gbNYC’s recent attention to the hospitality industry, it deserves […]
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20Dec2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
The Green Scene*: Special Report from USGBC’s Greenbuild Chicago 2007
*Paul McGinniss, whose Upstate New York Green Real Estate Report is a regular feature here at gbNYC, was at Greenbuild last week and checks in with this special report about the happenings in Chicago.
Over 20,000 people gathered in Chicago this past week for USGBC’s Greenbuild Expo 2007. I was lucky enough to be invited by ScheinMedia, […]
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12Nov2007 | Paul McGinniss | 2 comments | Continued-
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