We’re gearing up for our 7th year of Green Building Monthly Forums!

The Green Building Forum is held on the third Wednesday of each month (except December) at 6:30 PM and features presentations by green building practitioners followed by discussion. The events are always free and open to the general public.

The 2009 dates and topics are listed below. We’re continuing the tradition of mixing in case-studies of green building with discussions around policy and how-to’s.

Mark your calendars and check the events calendar for details & venues!

1. January 21: Showcase: Green Building Materials Catwalk
2. February 18: Green Building 101
3. March 18: DIY: Take your building’s energy pulse
4. April 15: Showcase: Bronx Green Building
5. May 20: Policy Roundtable
6. June 17: Showcase: Green Philly
7. July 15: Greening the Code: Status Check!
8. August 19: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Retrofit
9. September 16: Showcase: BIG Green Projects
10. October 21: Green Jobs / Green Careers
11. November 18: Showcase: International Green Building

We just got word from Brooklynite Gennaro Brooks-Church that he’s got a giant truckload of once-loved R-9 Polyiso rigid foam board insulation for sale. As Gennaro puts it,

So I need about 3600 square feet. I bought 12,500 square feet of insulation!!!! I couldn’t help it! I got a good deal and I really feel the greenest thing is for me to pay one big truck to bring the stuff to Brooklyn and redistribute it to others instead of everyone getting small trucks (which as it turns out isn’t cost effective anyway).

Contact Gennaro via his blog at http://ecobrooklyn.com/insulation-arrived/.

Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation is hiring an Economic & Environmental Planner with the Bronx Initiative for Energy and the Environment.  It’s a great opportunity to gain experience in planning and economic development in NYC, as well as good exposure to government. (more…)

Hello everyone! Today I’m making note of some activity in the City Council and the Mayor’s office from this past year (that have nothing to do with term limits!), as well as a few City-authored, green building related reports. Rumblings of green legislation supporting the implementation of PlaNYC are omnipresent at the city these days. Three pieces of legislation so far include a measure to require disclosure of energy and water performance to renters or buyers, a “NYC Climate Protection Act”, and setting additional green building standards for City capital projects. (more…)

“I use the double flush method all the time,” cackles a construction worker learning about dual flush toilets in the film, ‘The Greening of Southie’. Told from the point of view of the people responsible for designing, building, and selling the first LEED-Gold residential building in Boston, the film replaces regular folks for talking heads in this exploration of what it means to be green. (more…)