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Managing Lean & Green Workshop - Using Solar to Power and Heat Affordable Housing (Apr 7)

Event last updated March 18, 2010

Wednesday, April 7th 

10am-12pm

 
Get up to speed on solar thermal and PV — how they work and how to take advantage of incentives

 

Event Details

April 7, 2010 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Pratt Manhattan, 144 West 14th Street

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The Neighborhood Energy Forum (Mar 20)

Event last updated March 18, 2010

 

JOIN SUSTAINABLE FLATBUSH
A GRASSROOTS NON-PROFIT IN FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN
FOR A GATHERING ABOUT FUNDING FOR ENERGY
EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENTS FOR SINGLE- AND MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

  
Find out how to get funding for YOUR energy efficiency or renewable energy project, and save money on all your energy bills. For more information about the event, click here.

Event Details

March 20, 2010 - 9:30am - 2:00pm
Brooklyn College Student Center, Gold Room

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Greening Commercial Corridors: Implementing Sustainable Practices with Small Businesses (Mar 17)

Event last updated March 1, 2010

Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation presents

Greening Commercial Corridors: Implementing Sustainable Practices with Small Businesses

 

How can Brooklyn’s commercial districts implement sustainable practices? This seminar will provide tangible steps to implement green initiatives and discuss how BIDs and commercial revitalization managers can coordinate efforts with individual businesses to promote sustainability and the commercial corridor.
 

Event Details

March 17, 2010 - 8:30am - 10:30am
Brooklyn Public Library’s Business Library

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HPD's Green Owners' Forum in Coney Island (Feb 25)

Event last updated February 25, 2010

 

THIS EVENT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO THE SNOW STORM ON FEBRUARY 25TH. WE WILL RESCHEDULE SHORTLY.
 
The City of New York Department of Housing Preservation & Development, in partnership with Energy $mart Communities and Urban Neighborhood Services Inc., cordially invite you to a
 

Event Details

February 25, 2010 - 6:00am - 8:00am
Coney Island's Liberation Diploma Plus High School

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Managing Lean and Green 2009-2010 Schedule

Page last updated February 19, 2010

The Pratt Center for Community Development, Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, and the Supportive Housing Network of New York invite you to a monthly forum to learn and share information about how to make your existing housing portfolio more energy efficient, healthier, and more financially viable.
 
 

Schedule

 

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Managing Lean & Green Workshop - What's Up With the Price of Water? (Mar 3)

Event last updated February 11, 2010


Event Details

March 3, 2010 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Pratt Manhattan, 144 West 14th Street

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Learn to Conduct Building Energy Assessments and Upgrades (Jan 14)

Event last updated January 14, 2010

The Association for Energy Affordability  (AEA) and the Bronx Community College (BCC) Center for Sustainable Energy offer the following classes in New York City for building professionals, contractors and others seeking to learn how to conduct energy assessments in buildings:

  • Building Analyst
  • Multifamily Building Analyst
  • Building Envelope

Event Details

January 14, 2010 (All day) - May 14, 2010 (All day)
Various locations (see listing)

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Managing Lean and Green - A Monthly Workshop Series for Affordable Housing Managers (Feb 3)

Event last updated December 8, 2009

Back by popular demand - The Managing Lean and Green workshops!

The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, Pratt Center for Community Development and the Supportive Housing Network of New York invite you to join us in a second round of our popular monthly workshop series to learn and share information about how to make your existing housing portfolio more energy efficient, healthier, and more financially viable. Each of the 10 sessions features a presentation on a selected topic and time for participants to discuss their experiences, share information, ask questions and suggest policy and/or programmatic initiatives. We encourage affordable and supportive housing managers, developers and fiscal staff to participate.

February 3 -

The NYS Weatherization Assistance Program:  When to use it, how to access it, and how to maximize program benefits

Join us for an informative workshop on Weatherization Assistance with David Hepinstall of the Association for Economic Affordability, Inc. (AEA)

 

Event Details

February 3, 2010 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Pratt Manhattan, 144 West 14th Street

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Energy Matters

Page last updated August 10, 2009

For New Yorkers looking to make the buildings they own, rent or manage energy-efficient, Energy Matters is the one-stop shop for energy-saving resources

 

Typically, 25-50% of the energy used in buildings is wasted due to easily correctable problems like inadequate insulation, wasteful appliances and inefficient lighting and heating equipment. Making buildings energy efficient:

  • Saves money on fuel bills
  • Makes buildings healthier and more comfortable to live in
  • Makes New York a much greener place, and
  • Reduces the emissions that cause global warming!

Buildings generate 79% of New York City's carbon emissions through their energy consumption, and residential buildings alone account for 30% of the city's greenhouse gases.

Buildings that house low- and moderate-income people, including subsidized affordable housing, tend to be among the city's least energy efficient.  In these homes, rising fuel costs pose an especially serious threat. The Pratt Center is committed to educating affordable housing operators about the energy efficiency resources available to them.  We aim for every NYC home to run at its maximum energy efficiency.

 

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Financing a Solar Electric System

Page last updated July 1, 2009

Financing a Solar Electric System

Buying a PV system may be thought of as buying 25 or more years of electricity up front at a fixed cost. Today, commercially available solar modules cost around $4.50/watt for the equipment, and about $8 - $10 per watt installed. A system for a one- to four-family house will be about 5 Kilowatts (kW) depending on size of the roof, home usage and the budget of the purchaser. A 5kW system will cost about $40,000 to install before incentives.

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