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LL97: Unpacking the Proposed Rules (2024)
Watch our special webinar with the NYC DOB unpacking the 2024 Local Law 97 proposed rules.
October 10, 2024
A climate conversation with Gina McCarthy
The first White House National Climate Advisor, Gina McCarthy, shares lessons learned from climate advocacy.
October 9, 2024
Heating with ice
Mark MacCracken, the Vice President of CALMAC at Trane Technologies, joins host Ellen Honigstock and co-host Whitney Smith to discuss thermal energy storage.
June 17, 2024
2024 Conference: NYC Next
At our 2024 conference, experts in sustainable buildings explored AI in construction, heat pump water heaters, and solutions for cutting embodied carbon.
June 3, 2024
Unearthing geothermal energy
Brightcore's Jonathan Hernandez joins Urban Green's Ellen Honigstock to discuss geothermal energy.
April 10, 2024
The Green Economy Action Plan (w/ Nse Esema)
Nse Esema joined Urban Green Live to discuss NYC's Green Economy Action Plan.
March 27, 2024
Commissioning, you complete me!
Building systems are designed and installed separately, but they need to work together for a building to function as intended. Kelly Westby and Ellen Honigstock discuss how it happens.
February 14, 2024
Unlocking Incentives: Multifamily Upgrades
In this special webinar with the NYC Accelerator and Con Edison, we unpack the utility incentives that are available to multifamily buildings.
February 8, 2024
Historic buildings, modern policies
Dr. Erica Avrami, Nate Rogers and Kate Reggev discuss how new legislation could necessitate energy retrofits in historic buildings.
January 17, 2024
Office to residential conversions: The carbon story (w/ David Farnsworth & Tess McNamara)
How much carbon could be saved by 2050 if NYC expanded the range of buildings eligible for office to residential conversions?
December 6, 2023
Retrofits in occupied buildings
Hear from Trevor Smith, a construction manager with extensive experience in completing design-build energy projects in occupied buildings.
November 29, 2023
Workforce Solutions for Decarbonizing Buildings
What will energy upgrades spurred by LL97 mean for the workforce?
November 15, 2023
Decarbonizing finance
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander joins John Mandyck to discuss how finance can be used to advance decarbonization.
October 24, 2023
Cutting down embodied carbon
Ellen Honigstock and Prateek Srivastava sit down with Stantec’s Robby Vogel to get a structural engineer’s take on strategies to reduce embodied carbon.
August 23, 2023
Zoning for Decarbonization
Proposed amendments to NYC's zoning resolution would modernize the zoning code and make it easier for the city to meet its climate goals.
July 10, 2023