The Fourth Annual Patty Noonan Memorial Policy Forum – Leaving #6 Oil Behind: Policies, Costs and Savings
Please join us on: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:30-8pm
Sponsored by GreenHomeNYC & the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities
Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, Room 714W
LEAVING #6 OIL BEHIND: POLICIES, COSTS, AND SAVINGS
NYC is one of the last bastions of #6 residual oil use in the country, and the environmental problems with this high particulate hydrocarbon has sparked a heated discussion in the City for decades. With the City now requiring most buildings to be off #6 oil over a fairly tight schedule, owners, environmental groups, oil and gas companies, and yes, even the general public are beginning to focus on these regulations. Learn what the regulations are, how they will affect buildings that burn #6 oil, and what the future will be for this fuel and buildings that burn it.
Introduction/Welcome/Remembrance
Bomee Jung, Co-Founder/Board Member, GreenHomeNYC, Panel Moderator
Speakers:
Michael Bendjouya, CC Controlled Combustion
Kenneth Camilleri, ICF International
Robert Daly, P.E., Technical Director, Boiler Division, NYC Department of Buildings
PLEASE RSVP @ www.GreenHomeNYC.org
Each year, GHNYC honors the memory of our friend Patty Noonan, who in her brief career in NYC was one of the principle agents of change in sustainable affordable housing, and many other sustainable causes. She inspired and mentored many in our field; as the point person for sustainable causes at the NYC Partnership, she changed the way many felt about our field; after 9/11, she took the helm of the Partnership’s downtown revitalization efforts. Patty was a fabulous woman who left us much too early. In tribute, GHNYC holds an annual Patty Noonan Memorial Policy Forum, to honor her memory, bring an important policy issue to light, and inspire people to follow in her path. A community-oriented, volunteer-run organization, GreenHomeNYC’s mission is to facilitate the adoption of sustainable building methods and materials by owners of small residential and commercial buildings in New York City. GreenHomeNYC aims to be a hub of resources for small building owners, to promote the understanding of green building issues, and to connect building owners with local green building service and materials providers. GreenHomeNYC is also the New York City Chapter for the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), the nation’s leading regional membership organization focused on promoting the understanding, development, and adoption of energy conservation and non-polluting, renewable energy technologies. To find out more, visit www.nesea.org. GreenHomeNYC is a registered 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit corporation. The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities was created out of the vision and financial support of Theodore Kheel, prominent labor negotiator, lawyer, and environmentalist. Forged as part of a strategic alliance between Kheel’s environmental organizations Earthpledge and Nurture Nature Foundation and the City University of New York, CISC has focused on serving as a catalyst through which cuttingedge knowledge about sustainability practice and theory is translated to a wide range of audiences within CUNY and beyond. Mr. Kheel’s commitment to CUNY in part emerged out of his ambition to help New Yorkers change the way they see their relationship with the localenvironment. And from his perspective, a great place to achieve this is through a link to CUNY – as “CUNY is New York.”
