<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>GreenHomeNYC has put together an upcoming event on the subject of indoor air quality.<br><a href="http://greenhomenyc.org/blog/april-forum-indoor-air-quality/">http://greenhomenyc.org/blog/april-forum-indoor-air-quality/</a><br><br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">One of the speakers is a doctor who's done about 20 years worth of research and did a<span class=""> </span></span><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/progress_in_community_health_partnerships/7.1.garland.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">study in the South Bronx</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class=""> </span>that showed </span><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">that moving to green affordable housing significantly improves asthma symptoms in children and decreases health care utilization, such as having to go to emergency rooms for asthma incidents.<br></span><br><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Date:</b><span class=""> </span>Tuesday, April 19, 2016</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Time:<span class=""> </span></b>6:30-8:00pm</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Place:</b><span class=""> </span>Steven Winter Associates</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">307 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Suite #1901</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> </p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-we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indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><br></p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Lauren Hildebrand</b></p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Senior Sustainability Consultant at Steven Winter Associates</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Lauren Hildebrand’s work focuses on sustainable and high performance residential and commercial building design, construction, renovation, and operation. Most recently she moderated the<span class=""> </span><a href="https://events.newschool.edu/event/healthy_building_affordable_housing_roundtable#.Vv50MRhBPq0" style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(50,152,180);background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Healthy Buildings Roundtable at the Parsons School.</a></p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> </p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">At Steven Winter Associates she manages all air quality testing for the firm,  collaborates with Enterprise Green Communities, Healthy Buildings Network, Centek Labs, and various other clients/vendors to ensure the proper specification of healthy building materials, pest control management, non smoking guidelines, and active design activities.</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> </p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Her expertise further includes: sustainable design integration; energy performance testing; and implementing project certification for both commercial and residential programs, such as LEED®, ENERGY STAR®, NYSERDA, NJ Clean Energy, and Enterprise Green Communities. Awards presented to her clients include the 2013 USGBC NJ Urban Green Project Award.</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> </p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"> </p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><b style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Bill Walsh</b></p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Founder and Executive Director of the Healthy Building Network</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Bill Walsh has provided the long-term vision for the Healthy Building Network since February 2000. Previously he held leadership positions with Greenpeace USA and staff attorney positions with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and the Institute for Public Representation of Georgetown University Law Center. He holds a JD from Northeastern University School of Law and LLM in Public Interest Advocacy from Georgetown University.</p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><br></p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Thank you, <br></p><p style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:20px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Swis721 Ex BT",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,1,125)">JAIME ALVAREZ</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Swis721 Ex BT",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,1,125)">LEED AP BD+C, O+M</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Swis721 Ex BT",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,1,125)"></span></b></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Swis721 Ex BT",sans-serif">PAUL A. CASTRUCCI, ARCHITECT</span></u></b></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><u><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Swis721 Ex BT",sans-serif">CERTIFIED PASSIVE HOUSE DESIGN FIRM</span></u></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-spa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