Green Outlook

Green Outlook The Green Outlook is an off-grid, self-contained, sustainable complex that will serve thousands of bicyclists, joggers, strollers, picnickers and tennis pl

The Riverside Park Fund in conjunction with the Riverside Clay Tennis Association (RCTA) is launching a $6 million capital campaign to turn a parking lot into parkland and to build a carbon-neutral restroom and community facility using compost toilet technologies, green roofs, solar energy, rainwater, and recycled materials. This gift to the thousands of users – bikers, runners, strollers – of the

sparkling Hudson River Greenway will replace the current portable toilets, which are wholly inadequate for this busy section of Riverside Park near 96th Street and make a beautiful vista overlooking the Hudson River which does not currently exist. Of broader significance, the Riverside Greenway Comfort Station will be the first public building in NYC to meet the International Living Building Challenge, one of the most advanced green building standard in the world. It will serve as a model for future parks buildings not just in NYC but across the country, and forcefully advance Mayor Bloomberg’s sustainability goals laid out in PlaNYC 2030 and Vision: 2020. Designed by Cook+Fox Architects, the facilities will transform a defunct parking lot into a sunny wildflower meadow where the building’s solar panels will be located. The project’s state-of-the-art bathroom technology is already successfully in use at the Bronx Zoo and the Queens Botanical Gardens Visitor Center. Building a sustainable facility is not only the right thing to do, it is also the best solution for this location. The City’s sewer lines do not extend beyond the West Side Highway. It would cost untold millions of dollars just to bring in services. This is why there are no restrooms between 79th and 125th Streets. The new, off-grid facility will cost less to maintain than the portable toilets.

12/10/2016
06/18/2016

Following the success of the hovering High Line, an elevated park set on re-purposed rail tracks, New York City aims to pull off another park space in an unused space, this time at Pier 55 floating…

NYC Parks Capital Construction
03/04/2016

NYC Parks Capital Construction

Through innovation, our capital projects are being built smarter, faster, and on budget. During this administration, we’ve begun design on 275 park projects, and started construction on 187 projects. Want to learn more? Check out our Capital Project Tracker at http://on.nyc.gov/1ppjIq6 to find the status of a project in your area.

03/02/2016

03/02/2016

As the global proliferation of solar power continues, energy experts are coming up with new ways – and locations – to implement the cheap fuel alternative.

03/02/2016

With a nickname like the Big Apple, is it any surprise that New York has pulled off this botanical feat?

03/02/2016

Yellowstone was born on March 1, 1872 -- making it the world’s first national park.

03/02/2016

Vacant lots, city squares, a former highway, and even regular city streets are going to be filled up with trees and plantseverywhere you look.

When talking about GO at The Calhoun School Community Service Panel I got to meet Wendy, the Australian Frill-Necked Liz...
02/16/2016

When talking about GO at The Calhoun School Community Service Panel I got to meet Wendy, the Australian Frill-Necked Lizard. She was quite engaged, as were the students at Calhoun who are looking for ways to give back to the community. Working with Green Outlook is one. Also a shout-out to Wendy's home at Fauna NYC and the work they are doing with the Animal Preservation Alliance.

08/05/2014

Continuing Education CreditsGBCI:Approved for 1.0AIA CES:Approved for 1.0Event Prices: MembersFree AdmissionNon-member$5In today's built environment, managing a facility requires more than just brainpower. At the center of today's high performance buildings are smart control systems that can provid…

08/04/2014

Solar Industry to create more than 70,000 Jobs In Ontario by 2015 Despite the higher costs of Solar PV power generation, the net impact to the average Ontario household will be the equivalent of less than 1% of their electricity bills each year - less than the cost of one Tim Horton's donut per mont

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08/01/2014

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