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Electrifying Buildings, Featuring Urban Green

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N.Y.C.’s Gas Ban Takes Fight Against Climate Change to the Kitchen

December 15, 2021 | New York Times

Con Edison, along with proponents like Urban Green Council, a nonprofit group that promotes sustainable building, argued in Council hearings that the city’s grid could handle the increase, partly because its biggest strains come in summer, from air conditioning.
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For Co-op and Condo Boards, Now is the Time to Electrify

December 8, 2021 | Habitat Magazine

Co-op and condo boards will soon face momentous decisions on how to reduce their buildings’ carbon emissions to avoid stiff fines under the city’s Climate Mobilization Act. In a new report called Grid Ready, Urban Green Council offers the encouraging news that the city’s electric grid is ready to handle increasing demand if co-op and condo boards start switching from fossil fuel-fired boilers to electric heat pumps.
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As Risks of Climate Change Rise, Investors Seek Greener Buildings

October 26, 2021 | New York Times

The project is part of a larger movement of investors steering money toward sustainable real estate, thanks to new technology and tougher standards that allow for better tracking of a development’s ability to reduce its carbon footprint.
Featuring Urban Green, LL97

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How the Big Apple is Taking On the Carbon Footprint from Buildings

September 24, 2021 | S&P Global

In this special New York Climate Week episode, the ESG Insider podcast explores how the built environment is responsible for nearly 40% of all global carbon dioxide emissions, and what it will take to decarbonize this vast sector.
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New York Plans Two Major Power Lines to Boost Climate Goals

September 20, 2021 | Bloomberg

New York plans to build two new major electricity transmission lines to help the state meet its ambitious climate goals, which include getting 70 percent of its power from renewable sources by the end of the decade.