The Empire State Building's Green Makeover

Energy usage by large, old buildings like the Empire State Building represents a huge obstacle to cities’ dreams of carbon neutrality. New York City’s buildings account for 70% of its carbon emissions, for example, and half of those emissions are produced by the largest 5% of its structures. But retrofitting old buildings to make them more energy efficient represents a formidable challenge, both from an engineering perspective and in terms of convincing owners that doing so is in their financial interest.

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[jehovahhohenzollern]

*You guys did a good job with it but I the owner of this Empire State Building and the Freedom Tower wanted a giant golden Star of David and my name Ken יהוה on the back. :(*

[_aworldthatspoke]

I’ve very seriously considered suicide over climate change. It is too late. By the end of the decade we’d still be trapped if we reduced by 85%. Though the empire estate would be a good place to enact my climate plan from....