PlaNYC Turning Refuse to Good Use

PlaNYC is New York City’s initiative to, as Mayor Michael Bloomberg puts it, make a “Greater and Greener” New York. The initiative contains 132 separate ideas for improving the quality of New York’s air, to reducing its dependence on oil for heating, to a scheme to offer loans to encourage more people to install energy …

Retrofitting Conference Explores the Future

Last Tuesday the Building Trades Employers’ Association hosted a conference entitled, “New York 2030: The Rise of the Retrofit and Repositioning New York’s Buildings.” The conference was held at the First American Title Insurance Company on Third Avenue, and in attendance were Frank Martino, the vice president of Operations for Columbia University, and the director …

New York City Turning Garbage to Power

The latest scheme coming from Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office is to transform the many garbage dumps around New York into solar energy farms. PlaNYC for a Greater Greener NYC The plan is just one more part of the ongoing “Greater, Greener” sustainability plan, an all-encompassing project which at the moment contains 132 initiatives designed to …

Mayor Bloomberg to Announce Creation of Energy Efficiency Corporation

Jason Post, spokesman for New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that the mayor will unveil several new proposals designed to reduce New York’s carbon footprint as well as to help New Yorkers conserve energy. The plans are to be announced tomorrow in a speech which Mayor Bloomberg will deliver at Harlem Stage, a …