Creatures Day at Solar One
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Tomorrow August 29th from 10am-12pm Solar One will be hosting its 3rd event in its Family Day Series – Creatures Day!
Kevin Belle from Nature’s WILD Encounters will be on-site with a range of native animals for children to observe and ask questions about. We will also have the LESEC here to demonstrate worm composting.
There will be crafts such as coloring, crocheting, face painting, and paper mobiles.
This event is for the whole family and its free, so stop by for a few minutes or a couple of hours. The event is rain or shine.
* Due to the rainy weather on Saturday we will most likely not be tagging Monarch Butterflies, but will have info on the Monarch tagging project and information on butterflies in general.
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Sun To Stars Postponed On Account of Rain
Friday, August 21st, 2009The Sun To Stars South Asian Festival will not be held tomorrow due to anticipated bad weather, but will go on on Sunday, August 23 at 3pm. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this might cause!
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Pace Energy and Climate Center to host ILLUMINATING SOLAR FINANCE Conference. Council Member Dan Garodnick will deliver keynote address. Register today!
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Hosted by the Pace Energy and Climate Center
Where: Convenient downtown New York City location at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce Street, One Pace Plaza. Details and registration available here.
Keynote Speakers: Scott Sklar, The Stella Group; Daniel J. Garodnick, NYC Council Member, 4th District.
This one day conference packs in high level speakers involved in the solar energy development sector, with substantive panels on tax and other incentives, PPA structures, market based mechanisms, emerging state and federal policy and the future of solar technology and the industry. New York Continuing Legal Education credits are available.
Conference admission is $295 ($495 with 5.5 CLE credits); special rates for government/non-profit and students. Offsite lunch only $35 – sponsored by McCarter & English, LLP. Lawyers, finance professionals and project developers are encouraged to attend.
For more information contact Dana Hall at dhall@law.pace.edu.
Solar One is a supporting sponsor of this event.
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ILLUMINATING SOLAR FINANCE: shedding light on the essential elements of financing solar projects (At One Pace Plaza)
Friday, August 21st, 2009| September 10, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
Hosted by the Pace Energy and Climate Center
Where: Convenient downtown New York City location at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce Street, One Pace Plaza. Details and registration available here.
Keynote Speakers: Scott Sklar, The Stella Group; Daniel J. Garodnick, NYC Council Member, 4th District.
This one day conference packs in high level speakers involved in the solar energy development sector, with substantive panels on tax and other incentives, PPA structures, market based mechanisms, emerging state and federal policy and the future of solar technology and the industry. New York Continuing Legal Education credits are available.
Conference admission is $295 ($495 with 5.5 CLE credits); special rates for government/non-profit and students. Offsite lunch only $35 – sponsored by McCarter & English, LLP. Lawyers, finance professionals and project developers are encouraged to attend.
For more information contact Dana Hall at dhall@law.pace.edu.
Solar One is a supporting sponsor of this event.
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Black Swallowtail at Solar One
Monday, August 17th, 2009
In the herb garden just outside of Solar One, we spotted 4 Black Swallowtail caterpillars. The were munching on the seedlings of last years dill plant.
At first glance we thought the caterpillars were Monarch caterpillars only because they are the only caterpillars we ever see in that garden, and from a distance they have similar stripes. But on closer inspection we noticed that they were definitely not Monarch caterpillars, nor were they on the correct host plant. These caterpillars were on our dill plants which are one of the host plants for the Black Swallowtail along with carrots, parsley, Queen Anne’s Lace, and a few other species.
The Black Swallowtail starts its life as a cream colored egg, it then goes through 5 larval instars and then forms its chrysalis (cocoon). After the chrysalis it emerges as an adult Black Swallowtail Butterfly.
The instars are different stages of growth the larva goes through to reach its mature size. The first two instars the larva or caterpillar is brown with a white band in the middle of its body. The following 3 instars the caterpillar is light green with black bands that have yellow dots on them (as shown above). It is the larval stage that these insects do most of their eating, in fact is seems like they never stop!
When the caterpillar enters the pupal stage, the time it forms it’s chrysalis, it begins the process of metamorphosis. This is when it changes shape from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Depending on the time of year the pupal stage can last from 8-12 days (if formed in early summer) or it can over winter (if formed in late summer) and emerge 8-9 months later. The time of year also determines the color of the chrysalis; green in summer brown in winter.
It seems as though we may have to wait till next year to see the beautiful Black Swallowtail butterflies emerge from their chrysalides. In a few days these caterpillars are going to form their chrysalides, they seem to be in the 5th instar now.
Check back with us on our flickr account @ solaronenyc for updated photos of the caterpillars, chrysalides and hopefully the butterflies.
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