Building Powered by Sun and Wind Will Rise in Park Slope

Today the Brooklyn Paper reports that there are plans to build a six-unit rental with a ground-floor restaurant in Park Slope that will be “self-heating” and “feature a roof-top solar panel and wind turbine above its rentable units.” The project’s designer, David Scott of Voltaic Solaire, tells the paper that “we’re on the forefront of a movement that is long overdue in New York.” There’s no exact address given for the project and the story doesn’t mention if demolition will be involved. The architect declined to provide renderings, but a photo of one of the firm’s other projects is included above. This probably has nothing at all to do with the building plans or the specific neighborhood this project will rise in, but Freakonomics recently had a thought-provoking segment about “conspicuous conservation,” or, “when people make environmentally sound choices, how much are those choices driven by the consumers’ desire to show off their green bona fides?”
New Slope Building to be Powered Solely by Sun, Wind [BK Paper]
Photo via Voltaic Solaire