Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Clean and Green in New York. Meet Battery Park City.

Located in a modern community with a thin green river, energy-efficient buildings, lush parks of pesticides, good schools, clean streets, cooperative composting programs, and sustainable systems everywhere you turn. No, you're not in Norway. Look again. You are in Manhattan. Yes, crowded, cutthroat, dirty, impersonal New York City. Battery Park City, in fact, a quarter of projects on landfill in the Hudson River, on the southernmost tip of the island. In the pastDecade, starting long before sustainable communities have been planned or even thought of this land ownership has developed into a model of urban sustainability. It 's all thanks to the Battery Park City Authority, a partnership between New York State, are in fact their authority to good use to develop relationships with commercial and private developers under one condition: that any new structure, the highest level of implementation of sustainable technologies. Now, batteryPark City has the highest concentration of green buildings of every district in the country. In this video, we meet Battery Park City's activist leaders and learn about famous buildings in the neighborhood, including the Solaire, the nation's first sustainable high-rise residential structure and its beautiful parks (compost area maintenance, chemical-free), schools Green and programs, is excess revenue back to cities to fund affordable housing. We also learnAs ...

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