Environmental Champion On To Greening Cities – Courant.com

Feb 1st, 2010 | By Christopher Zurcher | Category: Energy Conservation, Energy Efficiency

Doug Foy, who was president of the Conservation Law Foundation for 25 years, now  heads a private business, a green tech company called Serrafix that primarily works at reducing energy requirements.

Tom Condon of The Hartford Courant, reports on a conversation he had wiith Foy recently:

Foy is working with a number of major cities, such as New York, Boston and Philadelphia, to develop citywide plans to retrofit buildings for energy efficiency.

Retrofitting can mean everything from using a caulking gun on windows to insulating the roof (“It's amazing how many buildings aren't insulated”) to the most exotic computerized controls — whatever is cost-effective and offers a reasonable payback, he said.

Read more here: Environmental Champion On To Greening Cities – Courant.com.

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