green building

Project last updated April 16, 2009

A Model Block for Energy Efficiency

Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, America's first community development corporation, and the Coalition for the Improvement of Bedford Stuyvesant are working with the Pratt Center to make the neighborhood a model for improving energy efficiency in low-income urban neighborhoods. By focusing our efforts in a defined geographic neighborhood, we will take advantage of urban proximity, common and attached building types, social networking and word-of-mouth marketing to dramatically reduce energy use, thereby reducing homeowner and tenant costs and improving indoor and outdoor air quality. Our ten-year goal is to retrofit over 5,000 homes and serve as a model for urban neighborhoods throughout the United States.