Do you use City Steam from Con Edison for your building's heating, cooling or domestic hot water (DHW) system? If you do, take a look at Con Edison's Negotiated Steam Fuel Cost Program. The program allows your building to obtain a fixed price for a portion of your steam fuel cost for the coming summer period (June 2013 - August 2013). The deadline to apply is Tuesday, May 14th, so click here to read the details or call the Steam Business Development group at 1-212-460-2011.

Ever wonder why your food scraps smell so ripe if they sit overnight in your kitchen garbage can? They have begun the natural process of breaking down and composting. Composting organic waste is a big opportunity to turn about a third of our waste stream back into soil. Now, for the first time, NYC will collect compostable organic waste from an apartment building. The Durst organization and the NYC Department of Sanitation announced last week that the City will offer residents at the Helena, an apartment building on the Upper Westside, regular food scrap collection through the City's Organics Collection Program. Organics from the building will be transported to a local DSNY composting facility where it will be transformed into compost for community gardens, street trees, parks, and neighborhood beautification programs. Finally, we can start to put to use all of the fruits, vegetables, egg shells, pasta, tea bags, coffee grounds and other food scraps that we dispose of everyday. You can read more about this initiative here.

One of our Green Supers, Zoltan Papp, was featured this week in an article in Habitat magazine. The article talks about how he saved his building money by aggressively upgrading to efficient lighting and using lighting controls. This is a good case study on Green Supers training being put into practice. Congratulations, Zoltan! Read the full article here.