GreenHome NYC is pleased to announce their February 17 monthly forum, The Women of Green, at a location to be determined. In this 1.5 hour presentation, attendees will meet 12 women in the green field, established professionals who are trying and succeeding in changing the environmental movement. The presentation will be done in Pecha Kucha format, where each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to present. This is a forum for women (and maybe well-behaved men) to see the breadth of careers in the sustainable field that don’t involve what we like to call the green “bling” (ground source heat pumps, solar, wind, bamboo, green roofs, and the like). This will be held as the regular monthly forum meeting of GreenHomeNYC (www.greenhomenyc.org) an all- volunteer organization dedicated to helping people in the NYC region green their lives. It is being done in cooperation with Hunter’s CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities; Admission is free but attendees can make a tax-deductable contribution to GreenHomeNYC at the forum. The Women of Green Chris Benedict, Chris Benedict, RA: Doing more with Less Catherine Bobenhausen, Veridian Energy and Environmental: Greening Professionals Erica Brabon, Steven Winter Associates: Health and Safety Mary Brennan, Community Preservation Corporation: Green Lending Annie Chadwick, Clinton Community Garden: Community Gardening Sharon Griffith, NYSERDA: 30 + NYSERDA and Weatherization Maureen Mahle, Steven Winter Assoc.: Green Design and LEED Certification Ariella Maron, NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services: Greening a Government Charlotte Mathews, The Related Companies: Big and Green Tatiana Morin, NYC Soil and Water Conservation District: The water we waste Lesley Patrick, Hunter CUNY ISC: Trees or Global Warming

1. Urban Oases:
Reclaiming Residential Yard Space
Evan Mason, MA
January, 2010

2. Three-Pronged Approach to
Reclaiming Open Space
1. Environmental
Science
2. Education
3. Public Policy

3. Urban Open Space Types
• Public: Parks, Greenstreets, Plazas, Street Trees
• Private
– Courtyards and terraces;
– Roofs;
– Single family and small scale housing—
Riverdale,
Staten Island, Sunnyside Gardens;
– Rowhouse backyards and front area ways;
– Apartment building front, rear and side areaways;

4. How Much Urban
Open Space is There?
Summary of Open, Private, Yard, and Residential Space in New York City
NYC Manhattan Bronx Brooklyn Queens Staten Island
Total Area (acres) 194,739 14,581 27,138 45,811 70,166 37,043
Percent of New York City 100.00% 7.49% 13.94% 23.52% 36.03% 19.02%
Open Space 113,077 6,145 16,002 22,606 41,713 26,611
Percent of Total Borough Area - 42.14% 58.96% 49.35% 59.45% 71.84%
Percent of Total NYC Area 58.07% 3.16% 8.22% 11.61% 21.42% 13.67%
Private Open Space (acres) 53,991 1,831 6,343 10,674 20,975 14,167
Percent of Total Borough Area - 12.56% 23.37% 23.30% 29.89% 38.24%
Percent of Total NYC Area 27.72% 0.94% 3.26% 5.48% 10.77% 7.27%
Yard Space (acres) 68,026 3,027 8,804 13,504 24,061 18,630
Percent of Total Borough Area - 20.76% 32.44% 29.48% 34.29% 50.29%
Percent of Total NYC Area 34.93% 1.55% 4.52% 6.93% 12.36% 9.57%
Residential Yard Space (acres) 52,236 2,077 6,438 10,674 19,857 13,190
Percent of Total Borough Area - 14.24% 23.72% 23.30% 28.30% 35.61%
Percent of Total NYC Area 26.82% 1.07% 3.31% 5.48% 10.20% 6.77%
LANDMARKWEST! AND CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, 2008

5. Historic Preservation +
Environmental Benefits =
New Approach to Preserving the
Built and the Natural
Environments

6. Environmental Benefits
• Reducing the amount of water needing
treatment by the City’s already overburdened
water treatment system;
• Reducing temperatures (Urban Heat Island
effect) and energy use over the hot summer
months;
• Air quality improvement and air pollution
reduction properties of trees and other
vegetation
• Habitat

7. Habitat
Ruby-Throated
Blue Jay
Hummingbird
Tufted Titmouse
Mourning Dove Downy Woodpecker

8. Ecological Services
and Climate Change
Heavy Rains likely to increase
precipitation in NYC 7.5-10%
Stormwater FACTS: Retain/detain at the Source
•27 billion gallons of untreated wastewater flow into our
waterways annually;
•NYC will have to spend $1.9 billion over the next 10
years to reduce the number of times a year that
untreated wastewater flows into our waterways;
•1.4 billion gallons of water per inch of rainfall runoff
could be captured by the 53,000 acres of residential
open space IF it were all covered with permeable
surfaces;

9. Ecological Services
Tree, Air Pollution and Urban Heat Island
Trees and Vegetation:
• Improve air quality;
• Reduce temperatures;
• Removing pollutants from the air;
• Reduce energy consumption where tree canopies
shade nearby buildings.

10. Rowhouse—Garden Core
Plunz, R. A History of Housing in New York City

12. Typical Unclaimed Apartment
Building Space
Photos: eDesign Dynamics

13. New York Magazine, 10/19/09

14. Public Policy
• To meet PlaNYC goals,
work with property owners
to control water from its
source, and to encourage
owners to plant trees and
vegetation;
• Tax abatement program to
remove concrete;
• Consider zoning reform to
reduce rear yard additions,
limit community facility
encroachments into rear
yards;
• Landmarks Law reform
and/or enforcement to
protect historic viewshed
and city plan

15. So What can YOU do to help?
• Reclaim and Green even small bits of
open space to which you have access
• Lobby your Building or your Landlord
• Be creative—expansive!
• Be inspired—encourage others
• Develop an affordable, realizable plan that
meets your building’s needs

16. Affordable Strategies to Green your
Open Space Sustainably
• Rainwater Harvesting—Rain Barrels
• Inexpensive timers can be hooked up to hose
bibs
• Use drought-tolerant plants
• Concentrate more maintenance-heavy planting
in one area
• NYC Council on the Environment—
Gardening Fact sheets
http://www.cenyc.org/openspace/publications

17. Affordable Design
Drought-tolerant indigenous plants
Planters (large and small)

18. Design for your Building’s Needs
•Quiet
•Play
•Fold Laundry
•Exercise
•Community Space
•Party

19. Rain barrels for irrigation
Permeable Pavements
Battery operated irrigation timer Ipe decks over soil

20. Social Space—Use it! Enjoy it!
NY Times 3/13/08

21. Catherine Bobenhausen
Viridian Energy and Environmental, LLC

43. Erica Brabon
Steven Winter Associates, Inc.

65. Mary A Brennan
The Community Preservation Corporation

66. The Women of Green: Financing Green Retrofits
•Refinance Debt
•Replace/Upgrade Systems
•Investigate Energy Waste
•Get all government incentives
•Get all utility incentives
•Make building more profitable
•Also safe, durable, comfortable, efficient
February 16, 2010
Mary A. Brennan
SVP, Head of Field Offices
mbrennan@communityp.com
212-869-5300

68. Energy Efficiency in 1980 in NYC…
• 11,000 buildings owned by the City
through tax foreclosure or owner
abandonment
• Oil increased in price a few hundred
percent in five years
• NYC Department of Housing Preservation
and Development establishes an Office of
Energy Conservation

69. An ad Campaign to teach people how
to lower their bills and increase
comfort in their apartments!
Circa 1982

70. And for the summer!
Circa 1982

71. HPD Proposed a Prescriptive
Energy Code
• All multifamily buildings
• Phased installation of cost-effective
measures
• All property tax deductable through J-51
• Assailed by real estate community as
government telling owners what to do

72. The Community Preservation
Corporation
• Non-profit 501 c(3) Mortgage Finance Company
• Founded in 1974 by NY Clearinghouse Banks
• Funded via consortium of more than 70 banks and
insurance companies
• Serving the tri-state region – NY, NJ and CT

73. CPC Mission – Restoring Urban
Communities
• Investment in multifamily and mixed use properties in
low and moderate neighborhoods
• Diversify risk for our participating institutions
• Provide an economic platform of investment to spur
recovery in distressed communities
• Develop and enhance public/private partnerships

74. The CPC One-Stop Shop
Construction & Credit
Permanent Enhancement
Financing From
Participating Banks
CPC
Public Subsidies
& Approvals Technical
Assistance
Borrower

75. CPC History and Performance
• Since inception more than 136,000 units of low and
moderate income housing have been financed
• Combined public and private investment of over $7
billion
• Loan losses of less than 2% since inception

76. The CPC Green Initiative
• Simple
– Access to capital in an illiquid environment
– Construction & Permanent Loans for occupied properties
• Sensible
– Energy retrofits improve property cash flow & increase value
– Comply with pending state & federal legislation
• Sustainable
– Extend efficiency and life cycle of building systems
– Contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases

77. Target Markets
• Existing multifamily housing stock throughout New
York State
• Occupied cash-flowing rental properties:
Must be able to measure energy usage at the
beginning so anticipated savings can be measured
post retrofit
• Gut rehabs and new construction do not qualify for this
program.

78. How does it work?
1. Standard CPC application required with third party
reports
• Appraisal, Engineering, Environmental
2. Standard credit review of borrower and property
3. Energy Audit - Performed by an Energy Expert
• Measure current usage – create a building benchmark
• Define retrofit work scope
• Monitor the retrofit

79. CPC buildings - Fuel (#2, #4 & #6)
Costs Per Sq. Ft.
30
avg = $1.88
25
20
15
10
5
0
$0.51-1.00
$1.01-1.50
$1.51-2.00
$2.01-2.50
$2.51-3.00
$3.01-3.50
$3.51-4.00
$0-0.50
Outliers
Cost/Sq. Ft. ($)

80. 0
20
40
60
80
100
120
$0-0.50
$0.51-1.00
$1.01-1.50
$1.51-2.00
avg = $1.44
$2.01-2.50
Costs Per Sq. Ft.
Cost/Sq. Ft. ($) $2.51-3.00
CPC buildings - Fuel/Gas
$3.01-3.50
$3.51-4.00
Outliers

81. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
$0-.20
$.21-.40
$.41-.60
$.61-.80
$.64
avg =
$.81-1.00
$1.01-1.20
$1.21-1.40
$1.41-1.60
$1.61-1.80
Cost/Sq. Ft. ($)
Costs Per Sq. Ft.
$1.81-2.00
$2.01-2.20
CPC Buildings - Electric (Elevator)
$2.21-2.40
$2.41-2.60
$2.61-2.80
$2.81-3.00
Ouliers

82. 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
$0-.20
$.21-.40
$.41-.60
$.61-.80
$.81-1.00
avg = $.68
$1.01-1.20
$1.21-1.40
$1.41-1.60
$1.61-1.80
Cost/Sq. Ft. ($)
Costs Per Sq. Ft.
$1.81-2.00
CPC Buildings - Water Meter
$2.01-2.20
$2.21-2.40
$2.41-2.60
$2.61-2.80
$2.81-3.00
Ouliers

83. What sort of savings
(assume 20%)?
• $1.66+ .54 + .58 = $2.78/ft2
• 20% savings = 56¢/ft2
For a 100 unit, 100,000/ft2 property:
• $560 savings to owner per apt/year
• $56,000 in a 100 unit building annually
• Estimated to be between 7-10% of total expenses

84. Freddie Mac Green PILOT Program
• Only available through CPC
• Enhanced pricing
– 15-30 bps lower for retrofit buildings
• Increased Leverage
– Up to 80% Loan to Value on Refinances
– Added Leverage Used to fund Retrofit
• Work done post closing via escrow hold back
– Typical scope is $3,000 - $5,000 per unit.

85. CPC Green Initiative
• Simple - One Stop Shop
• Sensible - Increase Value and Cash Flow
• Sustainable - Better Buildings, Cleaner Environment
• Thanks for watching 20 slides…….

86. Annie Chadwick
Clinton Community Garden

87. Annie Chadwick
Clinton Community Garden

106. Sharon Griffith
NYSERDA

107. The Women of Green
Sharon Griffith
Project Manager
Marketing and Economic Development
New York State Energy Research and Development
Authority
"Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it!"

108. • In the Beginning
– Eco Conscious
– Syracuse University
– Graduate School
– Graduation Day – Bill Moyers reality check

109. • Recession/Oil Embargo
• Energy Conservation
• Federal Study: Correlation between
Low Income and energy costs.
• Weatherization Assistance Program
(WAP)
• No Job Security

110. • NYS Dept of State, Div. of Economic Opportunity.
– CSBG: Community Service Block Grants (shared)
• The TEST is the thing.
• The Value of a College Degree
• Connections to Community Based Organizations
– Model Cities
• Personal Experience

111. • Experience
• On the Job training
– Double paned windows and high dense
packed insulation
– R value / U value / SIR / SSE
– New Diagnostic Technologies
• Luck (Right Place/Right time)

112. • State’s First Energy Auditor exam.
• Field Rep exam finally developed
• New Director = More technical – Boiler
tests, CFL’s, payback,
• Affordable Comfort Conferences
• Tools of the trade

113. • Hurdles
• Benefits
• Continual evolution – Building Science

114. • Building Science hits its stride
• State ethic rules
• Harlem Community Development Corp.
– Subsidiary of Empire State Development
• Director of Weatherization
• Management issues (Authorities)

115. In the interim:
• NYSERDA & the Systems Benefit Charge
(SBC)
• New Residential Director Connects to
WAP
• NYC office opens

116. • NYSERDA mission more universal.
– Commercial
– Residential
– Renewables
– New technologies: Geothermal/Fuel Cells/
• Multiple Goals
– Reduce Energy Use (electricity)
– Market Transformation
– Increase use of renewables (Solar/Wind)

117. • Accomplished via
– Incentives
– Contractor Training
– Consumer Education
– Technical Support
– Marketing programs

118. • Marketing
– Commercial
– Residential
– Media spokesperson
– New York Energy $mart CommunitiesSM
• Market Transformation
• Economic Development
• EE now in Vogue: Green/Climate Change has
been the stimulus

119. • RGGI Funding – Carbon Credit Sales
• Green Jobs/Green NY - April 2010 - $112m

120. • Pathways to a State Gov’t job.
• Pathways to a NYSERDA job

121. • Professional networks
• Professional Organizations
• Certification Groups

122. NYC office went from 4 to 6 to 17
• BA in Sociology • BA in Environmental Studies
• BA in English Literature • BA in English
• MS in Social Work • BA in Psychology
• Certificate in Business, • BS in Environmental Science
• Administrative Assistant • BA in Physics
• BS in Physics • BA in Environmental Design and
• BS in Earth, Atmosphere, and Architecture
Planetary Sciences • MS in Solid-State Physics
• Energy Management • Master’s of Engineering in
• Master of Urban Planning Sustainable Energy
• MS in City and Regional • BSE in Materials Science and
Planning Engineering
• M.S.E. in Environmental • BA in Environmental Studies
Engineering

123. • Green Jobs not limited (still confusion)
• Challenge of word burnout
• Experience
• Training

124. • Proud
• Happy
• Grateful
• Impressed
• Scared
• Bouyed
• Humbled
• Willing
• Lucky

125. Energy Efficiency
G R E E N

126. Maureen Mahle
Steven Winter Associates, Inc.

127. Maureen M. Mahle
Green Design and
LEED® Certification

128. My company

129. My job

130. More on my job
Photo: Ken Wyner

131. Getting Started in Green

132. “Why learn it wrong?”

133. Green feels good

134. Residential green certification
LEED for Homes
LEED for New Construction
National Green Building Standard
ENERGY STAR
Green Communities

135. How do you build green?

136. No, REALLY…

137. Roles and responsibilities

138. More roles and responsibilities

139. Green building is still dirty work

140. Tackle the technical

141. Building science still rules

142. Reasons projects go green

143. Why certify?

144. Why certify?

145. Certification equals motivation

146. Great LEED Buildings

147. Charlotte Matthews
Related Companies

148. Big and Green
Charlotte Matthews
Vice President – Sustainability
Related Companies
Time Warner Center
Columbus Circle, NYC

149. Roots of Green
Countryside Drive
Summit, New Jersey

150. Roots of Big
Hong Kong
2005 Hong Kong
1985

151. Getting to Work
Giancarlo Laboratories
Brown University
Architect: Payette Associates

152. Planting Seeds for Change
A Heat Wheel
Source: www.datacenterknowledge.com

153. Relationships Follow You
Café across the street
Summer Street, Boston

154. Directing the Work
Bank of America Tower
LEED® CS Platinum anticipated
The Durst Organization
Cook + Fox

155. Big and Green
Tribeca Green
Battery Park City, NYC
LEED® NC Gold
Related
Robert A.M. Stern

156. Executing the Work
Construction Waste Management
(Done Right, from the Inside)

157. Managing the Work
Archstone Clinton
Hells Kitchen, NYC
The Lucida
LEED® NC Certified UES, NYC
The Dermot Company LEED® NC Certification anticipated
FXFowle
Extell Corporation
Cook + Fox

158. Previous Labors Bearing Fruit
The Brompton
Upper East Side, NYC
LEED® NC Silver anticipated
Related
Robert A.M. Stern

159. Entry into “Corporate” Sustainability

160. Bigger and Green
National September 11th Memorial and Museum
LEED® NC Gold anticipated

161. Bigger Target: Industry

162. Environmentalist as Owner/Developer
Snowmass Base Village, Colorado
LEED® ND Certification for neighborhood anticipated
LEED® NC Silver for individual buildings anticipated

163. Creating a Corporate Sustainability Strategy
https://www.related.com/ourcompany/businesses/16/Sustainability/

164. Really Big and Green
Hudson Yards
Planned development of 26-acre
Manhattan rail yards
LEED® ND Certification
for neighborhood committed
LEED® NC Silver
for individual buildings committed
Related Companies

165. Codifying Green Building

166. Leading by Example
W42nd Street
Planned development of 1.2M SF
condo, rental, hotel and theatre
LEED® NC Silver anticipated
Related Companies
Arquitectonica and SLCE
with Frank Gehry Theatre

167. Past to Present foretells Open Future
The Clarendon / One Back Bay
Boston
LEED® NC Silver anticipated
Related Companies
Robert A.M. Stern

168. Tatiana Morin
NYC SWCD

169. Waste or Resource

170. 8.25 million
New Yorkers
+
millions of
workers and
tourists that visit
NYC each day
PHOTO COURTESY OF:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4nz8PLMyvPRgPpGVyoqQqA

171. ….stormwater picks up everything
off the streets, roofs, sidewalks
parking lots and construction sites..
…and takes it down
the drain where it
combines with sewage

172. ¼” rain + Combined Sewers + inadequate infrastructure + high % impervious surface =
CSOs

173. CSOs
Separate Sewer Outfalls

174. Newtown Creek
(Courtesy of Riverkeeper)
St. Nevin’s Street.

175. Source:http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/galleries/
Source: Final Report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on
Sustainability and the MTA
Croton Filtration Plant

176. Why all this Waste?

177. The Cost of Water
For municipal water you pay 2X:
(1) water supplied + (1) sewer costs
(Whether the water actually goes down the sewer or not)
$5-$7 per 1000
Gallons

178. The Near Future…..Your wallet
Stormwater Rate Structure
Study
•This would establish a separate
pricing structure for stormwater
generation characteristic of
specific land uses
•Potential credit programs are
being reviewed to incentivize
intallations of stormwater BMPs
and water conservation measures

179. Developments
in the Croton
Watershed

180. Marcellus Shale Formation
2008 Production

181. The Bright Side:
plaNYC Opportunities
Sustainable Stormwater
Management Plan 2008
DDC Construction Code, Local Law 86
of 2005, Design Consulting Guide
2003
DEP Long Term Control Plan, JBWPP
Green Roof Tax Abatement Legislation
•LIDs
•Water Conservation
•Smart Use

182. Principles of LID

183. Private Development
•Urban/suburban/exurban
•Residential
•Commercial
•Industrial
Government Facilities
•State/local government buildings
•Public schools
•Public Housing
Public Works/
•Public transit Infrastructure
•Streets
•Highways
•Sidewalks
•parks

184. Why Be Water-Efficient?
Potable water
Stormwater, CSOs &
Climate Change
sewage flow via water
conservation and
capturing stormwater flow
wastewater = better
treatment and less nitrogen
loading

185. The Three Rules of
Water Conservation and Efficiency
Reduce Repair
Retrofit
Non-conserving home 72.5
Conserving home 49.6
Savings 32%

186. I Rent.
Why Should I Care?
• Increased operating costs provide a basis
for landlords to receive larger rent increases
under the rent stabilization system
• NYC RGB studies operating costs, including
water utility costs, each year as part of the
rent guidelines process
• Ultimately, if you waste, you pay.

187. Toilets
Switch to 1.6 GPF
Dual-flush or
low-flush toilets Waterless Urinals
~0.8 GPF
Washing
Showers Standard washing
machines use
1.6GPM 40-50 GPL
Source:
www.farm2.static.flickr.com/1127/55124177
0_e9e9f5..
• 18-25 GPL
12 GPM BAD! Source: Home Depot
• 40% less energy
Average: 4-7 gpm • Reduced drying
Low flow ≤ 2.5 gpm time.

188. The Bathroom Sink
• Hand-washing and tooth-brushing
• Do these activities really require high volumes of
water?
0.5 gpm
The Kitchen Sink
• Average 1.5 – 5.0 gpm
• Should flow < 2.2 gpm
Water temperatures should be
reduced to 120o F at point of
delivery

189. Water ↔ Energy = $
•Water regulated the temperature on earth
•Vegetation can act to move heat out of the lower
atmosphere in the form of vapour phase water
•Energy and Water costs are increasing worldwide
•Urban Heat Island Effect pronounces these costs

190. Carina Molnar
CUNY ISC

191. 2006
An Inconvenient Truth
2008
47% of Americans believe that
climate change is caused
by human activity.
2009
36%

192. Life
In
A
Laboratory
Is
Non‐stop
Adventure.
Image drawn by Patsy Chen.

197. College level Environmental Studies students
had never read Walden…
or even heard of Henry David Thoreau.
I almost cried.
And then I made them read it.
And then they didn’t want to take my class.

200. Treating the environment as a “thing,”
located in one specific geographic location,
that needs your attention for protection,
has not worked.

202. Source: Marda Kern

203. Source: Mary Miss and Marda Kern

206. Cities can be solutions.
But only if we do them right.

207. human behavior and the city
Culturally, we love the city. Neurologically, we have a hard time in this place.
Painting: Nancy Weber

209. “…when people say: ‘As a scientist, would you
say…that we know that people need nature?’
I say: ‘As a scientist I can’t tell you. I’m not
ready to say that,’ ”Kuo said.
“ ‘But as a mother who knows the scientific
literature, I would say, yes.’ ”

210. This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
‐Plato
cmolnar@hunter.cuny.edu

211. The End
Can we have a big hand for
our presenters?