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4 Easy Ways to Live Green in NYC

Finding an apartment in New York City can be a difficult task; in fact, at one point last year, there were literally no vacancies in Manhattan.  In response, new apartments are being built as we speak, yet they are filled just as quickly, due to the already large population and an influx of newcomers to the city. This is all great, ...

How New York Is Making Co-ops and Condos Eco-Friendly

In recent years, everyone in New York city has been going green. Many shareholders and boards of co-ops and condos are working hard to incorporate green initiatives into their architecture and their modes of operation. The gold standard for green residential initiative is the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ...

The Atelier: Battling Global Warming

As we’ve learned from the previous two posts about global warming, it’s a phenomenon that’s on the rise and causing significant harm to our planet. At the rate we’re going we are going to cause drastic, maybe irreversible, changes to our planet. In fact, just yesterday a study was published showing that five Solomon islands ...

New York City Affecting Global Warming

As we learned in the previous blog post from this three part series, the recent global warming and climate change that we are currently experiencing are largely a result of greenhouse gases that humans have emitted, and are continuing to emit at an alarming pace, into the atmosphere. Cities play a huge part in these emissions. With ...