Topics: Insights
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Building Tomorrow: Prioritizing Environmental Justice as we Electrify
Sonal Jessel, Director of Policy at WE ACT, joins Zakiyah Sayyed and Anushka Maqbool to discuss how electrification must benefit historically disadvantaged communities.
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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 2)
In Part 2 of our Financing Series with NYC Accelerator, we discussed equipment loans and ‘energy-as-a-service’ contracts.
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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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Building Tomorrow: Exploring Equitable Electrification
Urban Green’s Chris Halfnight, Danielle Manley and Adam Schiabor sat down to discuss our latest analysis on equitable electrification in NYC.
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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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How a global pandemic shifted NYC’s energy use
NYC site energy use and carbon emissions both decreased in 2020.
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Urban Green Live: What’s next for healthy buildings (w/ Dr. Joe Allen)
Dr. Joe Allen is back on Urban Green Live to discuss highlights from his new book!
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LL97: Unpacking the proposed rules
The NYC Department of Buildings has released the Proposed Rules for Local Law 97, shaping the law for the decades ahead.
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Ten years after Sandy: How far have we come?
October 2022 marks a decade since Superstorm Sandy, the worst hurricane ever to make landfall on the U.S. east coast.
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