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VIDEO: Practical Affordable Green Building & Renovation
Check out this video of a Brooklyn, NY based green contractor (ECO-BROOKLYN). They have a very practical approach to renovating brownstones in the Brooklyn area.
Their goal is to provide inexpensive practical green solutions to the middle class, which obviously would have the biggest footprint of usage throughout our country. ECO-BROOKLYN’S mantra is that “the city will provide”. They salvage many of their materials out of dumpsters and dumps and in their words they are “reversing the tide to the dump”. They typically try to use reclaimed material on everything except HVAC, cabinets and appliances. For the appliances and HVAC the trade off is too great not to take advantage of the energy savings of new equipment.
These guys demonstrate how you can creatively renovate with green technologies and not break the bank. it is vitally important that with projects like this you have a plan way in advance, because due to the nature of this kind of building, it will take longer anyways and you do not want to slow down even more due to poor planning, or something that could of been avoided. So, enjoy the video. CL
