Amy E. Norquist
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Amy Norquist is the founder and President of Greensulate LLC, a green building consulting, design and contracting business. Norquist’s background includes over 20 years in the non-profit sector working on issues around environmental research and education. She served as Deputy Director of a multi -million dollar scientific research institute, the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, overseeing major green building initiatives. It was there Norquist began studying, working with, and understanding green building (especially green roofs and green walls).

Greensulate and Norquist have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Domino magazine and GOOD magazine. Norquist has also lectured at Columbia University and NYU and frequently gives presentation to professional design and construction groups.

Norquist has lived in Washington State, California, and New York and currently splits time between Manhattan and Shelter Island New York.

For additional information visit www.greensulate.com.

Blog Entries by Amy E. Norquist

April Showers: The Tale of Two Cities

0 Comments | Posted April 17, 2012 | 6:14 PM

Two sides of the country and two different discussions about sewage and stormwater: Why is San Francisco a decade behind east coast cities in the adoption of green infrastructure?

At around 8 a.m. on April 12th, San Francisco experienced an April Shower that overwhelmed the sewage system and flooded...

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Green Work Is Women's Work

0 Comments | Posted November 3, 2010 | 10:43 AM

After the crash, the downturn was dubbed a "mancession." As the meme continues to circulate, the Roosevelt Institute's New Deal 2.0 blog asked leading thinkers to help sort fact from fiction. Are men suffering more than women in a weak economy? Is Washington doing enough to address female...

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Sewer Overflows Are Expensive And Unsafe

0 Comments | Posted December 4, 2009 | 10:09 AM

The New York Times last week revealed the frightening state of our nation's urban sewer systems and the real consequences to human health: over 20 million people each year get ill from drinking, fishing, and swimming in water contaminated with sewer overflow.

When most sewer systems process waste from...

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