Climate economist GernotWagner overhauled his leaky, 200-year-old co-op to make it more energy-efficient. Here's how he did it
Photo-Illustration: Curbed. Photo: Gernot Wagner Most New Yorkers live in small apartments and don’t drive, two of the most important factors that make cities so climate-friendly. Just by living as New Yorkers, we cut our carbon footprints by around 50 percent, compared to the average suburban household. For this, many of us congratulate ourselves.
The size of our loft alone cuts carbon quite a bit. I’m more likely to borrow a baking pan or a puzzle from the neighbor than go out and buy my own. There’s not much room for extraneous stuff when the kids’ area serves as a pandemic dojang for Taekwondo in the afternoon and then converts into a cozy home theater on Friday evenings, to be cleared completely for their Murphy bunk bed each night. Even better, of course, is the fact that our apartment is stacked on top of three others.
To meet German passive-house standards, we’d need thick, well-insulated walls, triple-glazed windows, and solar water heaters on the roof, among many other measures. We’d never quite get there — cost for one, but also because we only own the apartment. The co-op owns the outside walls and windows. The Landmarks Commission owns the “aesthetics,” so, for example, exterior solar blinds installed outside the window frames, to prevent the sun from hitting the glass, were out.
The only appliance which we didn’t go for the most energy-efficient version was the Wi-Fi router. We chose performance instead, to allow us to manage the dozen devices online at any one time, including our Nest thermostat, which goes into “Eco” mode when it senses that nobody is home. I’m still not sure why an oven should have its own IP address, other than to have the manufacturer check up on our pandemic bread-baking.
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