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[Natalí Stibb]

The EMPRESS Project Team has compiled the project's deliverables into a website (empress.naseo.org). This website contains case studies, sample legislation, a policy guidebook, recommendations for key label components and much more.

Policy toolkit -- Develop and distribute model polices and examples of legislation and governance frameworks that encourage the voluntary use of residential energy data. Click here to download the completed EMPRESS Final Report.

The dilapidated apartment building in which I live is just a few streets north of the empress trees. I spend most of my free time there, but like a restless house cat I have my regular patrols. Sunday mornings, I take Smith Street up to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, where, from the tall wrought-iron fence that overlooks the East River, I can take in my entire city-bound life. (There is the skyscraper where I work, here is my favorite bar, that is where my best friend lives.) Other times I walk to Brooklyn Bridge Park and around Pier 6, circling a rotating neon sign that reads UNDERSTANDING, which narrowly avoids seeming self-serious because it is twenty-five feet tall and therefore impossible to read from up close.

Once walking became my primary form of exercise, I started thinking about the time spent on these excursions in isolation from the rest of my life, as though they were one long looping GIF. I began to measure my walking life not in hours spent on the pavement but in, say, the number of shuttered storefronts along Atlantic Avenue or by the absence of a huge, leafy fig tree that had been leveled to a stump when I went to look for it last autumn. Living in New York means learning not to mourn your landmarks too much. You accept shifting as part of the landscape.

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