Author: Urban Green Council
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Decoding New York State’s all-electric new buildings law
New York will become the first state in the country to require new buildings to be all-electric. Here’s what to know.
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Urban Green Live: Pathways to Electrification (w/ Ian Shapiro)
Ian Shapiro joined Urban Green Live to talk actionable steps for electrification in buildings.
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Building Tomorrow: Innovations in sustainable construction
This 2018 conversation between the late Michael Deane and Ellen Honigstock touches on eliminating construction waste and innovations at the intersection of sustainability and construction.
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Financing Energy Upgrades 101 (Part 1)
Looking to reduce costs in your building? This panel with NYC Accelerator breaks down the barriers to financing your energy upgrade projects.
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Waste Heat Energy Recovery Technologies
Learn about waste heat recovery and the state-of-the-art technologies that are available to help you optimize energy use in your building!
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Building Tomorrow: Embodied carbon 101
Embodied carbon will play a key role in our path to decarbonizing buildings. Aurora Jensen joins Shruti Narkar to discuss how.
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Urban Green Live: Achieving Science-Based Net Zero (w/ Karl Downey)
We sat down with Karl Downey to discuss the Science Based Targets Initiative and their Building Sector Guidance.
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Building Tomorrow: There’s a better way to assess building energy
Current benchmarking of building performance provides data on a monthly basis. Taylor Duncan and Molly-Dee Ramasamy think we can do better.
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Urban Green Live: The NYC Bureau of Sustainability (w/ Laura Popa)
We sat down with Laura Popa to discuss the new Bureau of Sustainability and its priorities for the coming months.
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The next step in benchmarking
A proposed bill would expand benchmarking and energy disclosure requirements to buildings larger than 10,000 SF.
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Exploring equitable electrification
A look at where Grid Ready meets NYC’s Environmental Justice Areas.
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How a global pandemic shifted NYC’s energy use
NYC site energy use and carbon emissions both decreased in 2020.
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LL97 RECs: Balancing flexibility and decarbonization
Renewable energy credits have the potential to be a major LL97 compliance path for 2030.
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Five things to know about the LL97 proposed rules
The DOB has released the Proposed Rules for Local Law 97. Here’s what you need to know.
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Damned if we don’t: A push to decarbonize buildings
At our 2022 conference, we addressed the barriers to electrification and how we plan to break them.