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Wind is powering Durst to green success.


The Durst durst  
v. Archaic
A past tense and a past participle of dare.
 Organization--one of New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 City's most prominent commercial real estate owners--became New York State's largest commercial customer of wind power last week.

The company is making an annual purchase of approximately 10.5 million kilowatt-hours of clean and renewable "Green Power," which consists of NewWind Energy[R], a product of Community Energy, Inc., for its 7.5-million-square-foot portfolio of seven high-rise office buildings in Manhattan. NewWind Energy[R] is supplied from the 30-megawatt Fenner Wind Power Project, located east of Syracuse in Madison County Madison County is the name of twenty counties in the United States, named after President James Madison:
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The Durst Organization co-presidents Jody and Douglas Durst made the announcement at 4 Times Square, a 48-story, environmentally advanced office building owned and operated by the organization.

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, event participants staged a symbolic "apple-lighting" ceremony by throwing a switch that illuminated a glowing, five-foot-wide "Green Apple" in the lobby of the building also known as the Conde Nast building.

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 environment for all New Yorkers are integral parts of our corporate mission," said Douglas Durst, co-president of The Durst Organization. "Having worked hard to make 4 Times Square the world's most environmentally sophisticated urban office building, we are proud to support the 'Green Power' program by applying this clean energy throughout our 7.5-million-square-foot office portfolio." ConEdison Solutions, a leading energy services company, partners with Community

Energy Inc., a leading marketer of pollution-free, wind-generated electricity, to bring "Green Power" to the New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 area. Wind has become the word's fastest-growing renewable energy Renewable energy utilizes natural resources such as sunlight, wind, tides and geothermal heat, which are naturally replenished. Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, and hydroelectricity to biomass and biofuels for transportation.  source.

"By tapping renewable energy, companies like The Durst Organization are protecting our environment and promoting conservation," said JoAnn F. Ryan, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of ConEdison Solutions.

"Produced right here in New York State, 'Green Power' is helping make New York cleaner and greener."

"Green Power" is clean, renewable energy generated in New York State that is now available to all residential, commercial, industrial and government energy users in New York City, as well as Westchester, Rockland, and Orange counties.

The Durst Organization's wind power purchase represents ten percent of the total energy consumed in the company's New York properties.
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Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Geographic Code:1U2NY
Date:Jan 21, 2004
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