This open house event is a fundraiser for Seed Song Farm, a local organization that has supported our work from the beginning, including hosting our kickoff event.
Tickets:
Tour the house and enjoy music from singer-songwriter Jackie Gage, refreshments and a light vegan and vegetarian meal in the garden.
We’ll tell you about the house and let you know about Green Economy Opportunities. This is the 1st. and only Hempcrete Retrofit with deep recycling in Ulster County NY. This gathering is a great way to connect with people creating Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) and people building the Green Economy.
Deep Recycle is restoring old wood and hardware. We also kept the original windows, capturing the charm of the 1800s.
For more details, follow the link above.
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Tour the house and enjoy music from singer-songwriter Jackie Gage, refreshments and a light vegan and vegetarian meal in the garden.
We’ll tell you about the house and let you know about Green Economy Opportunities. This is the 1st. and only Hempcrete Retrofit with deep recycling in Ulster County NY. This gathering is a great way to connect with people creating Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) and people building the Green Economy.
Deep Recycle is restoring old wood and hardware. We also kept the original windows, capturing the charm of the 1800s.
For more details, follow the link above.
HEMPCRETE RETROFIT:
Henry Gage, Jr., Senior Project Manager and Sally Warren, PhD., Research Analyst gutted a Kitchen wall in December of 2019 (first installation). The first picture shows the wall before work started and the second picture shows the wall with Hempcrete. Look for the same wall in the kitchen pictures to see how we finished the wall with a lime based paint (breathable).
After receiving training, we proceeded to gut all perimeter walls and installed Hempcrete as a Green New Deal insulating material. The retrofit included electrical upgrades (100A to 200A service), plumbing, Restoration of doors, reclamation of old wood for use during finish carpentry and yard work. Our approach included deep recycle where we attempted to reuse as much as possible. The front yard is basically a food source and provided an abundance of greens during the summer and fall. Learning to grow food is the beginning of sustainable living.
This is the first retrofit of this type on the East Coast and a prototype of a community based model where cities are invited to work with the community to restore abandoned properties. This project demonstrates how a property can be restored without the need for city funding and independent of credit score. Because Build Green Now, LLC ownes each property we can choose who to sell to. Our mission is providing housing to the community, starting with community leaders.
We are editing the site this month and will provide an information and training schedule. Once it is confirmed the details will appear on this site. Please allow about 2 weeks. We are working through refinancing details.
After receiving training, we proceeded to gut all perimeter walls and installed Hempcrete as a Green New Deal insulating material. The retrofit included electrical upgrades (100A to 200A service), plumbing, Restoration of doors, reclamation of old wood for use during finish carpentry and yard work. Our approach included deep recycle where we attempted to reuse as much as possible. The front yard is basically a food source and provided an abundance of greens during the summer and fall. Learning to grow food is the beginning of sustainable living.
This is the first retrofit of this type on the East Coast and a prototype of a community based model where cities are invited to work with the community to restore abandoned properties. This project demonstrates how a property can be restored without the need for city funding and independent of credit score. Because Build Green Now, LLC ownes each property we can choose who to sell to. Our mission is providing housing to the community, starting with community leaders.
We are editing the site this month and will provide an information and training schedule. Once it is confirmed the details will appear on this site. Please allow about 2 weeks. We are working through refinancing details.
Yard:
Family Room:
Kitchen Before and After:
Full Bath Before and After:
LATEST EXPEDITIONS
On April 22, 2019, New York City demonstrated bold leadership in announcing “NYC's Green New Deal”
“New York City is not only taking steps to adhere to the Paris Climate pact, it is frontloading the most significant greenhouse gas reductions for the coming decade, before it's too late.” - https://onenyc.cityofnewyork.us/
In a spirit of collaboration we have decided that now is the time to take action. Today is the day we accelerate making a difference as we lengthen our strides toward a sustainable economy. Like many others, I left a good job in the city to go all in for the next generation and for all the innocent life the we are harming on a daily basis.
A primary goal of this site is to inspire mutually beneficial collaboration and information sharing to speed adoption of a sustainable lifestyle. Here are a few guiding rules:
1. Spend 80% of eco conversations on solutions and limits restating problems to 20%
2. If necessary, build your own team and trust that you can make a difference.
3. Seek mutually beneficial solutions and use this language to collaborate.
As we build this site we will add active projects so you can efficiently start a project or join an existing project.
“New York City is not only taking steps to adhere to the Paris Climate pact, it is frontloading the most significant greenhouse gas reductions for the coming decade, before it's too late.” - https://onenyc.cityofnewyork.us/
In a spirit of collaboration we have decided that now is the time to take action. Today is the day we accelerate making a difference as we lengthen our strides toward a sustainable economy. Like many others, I left a good job in the city to go all in for the next generation and for all the innocent life the we are harming on a daily basis.
A primary goal of this site is to inspire mutually beneficial collaboration and information sharing to speed adoption of a sustainable lifestyle. Here are a few guiding rules:
1. Spend 80% of eco conversations on solutions and limits restating problems to 20%
2. If necessary, build your own team and trust that you can make a difference.
3. Seek mutually beneficial solutions and use this language to collaborate.
As we build this site we will add active projects so you can efficiently start a project or join an existing project.
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Learn
Read legislation, collaborate with friends with similar interests.
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Take Action
Attend an open house to meet the Kingston team.
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Share
Build a team and prepare to start your project.
We offer personalized leadership training. For more details, attend an open house. |