"A Greening-Up Project In Brooklyn: The Prologue By Alec Appelbaum," - The Faster Times

The Pratt Center, a cohort of planners and activists who demonstrate way to develop New York City more fairly, has started a project to inspect homes in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, find ways they waste energy, and train ex-convicts to make energy fixes.

This is the sort of project that makes self-styled greenies slobber and self-styled free-marketers snort. So I hope we can spend the fall examining how it works- for the people who use it and as a model.

Now, the project has barely started- so far, its work area consists in a two block zone. But it’s worth tracking. Since I maintain some ties to Pratt, though, I’m seeking questions to put to the project’s managers as it proceeds.