Jamal Jackson Dance Company at Solar One
Monday, April 19th, 2010| April 28, 2010 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
photos: Jonathan Hökklo
Solar One is proud to present the Jamal Jackson Dance Company, with special guests Berean Community Drumline and the Frank Malloy Djembe Ensemble, in a Contemporary African dance and percussive extravaganza.
This hour-long traveling performance will be a presentation of original choreography by Jamal Jackson with the unique musical accompaniment of Southern-style marching band drum line. Starting at the south end of Stuyvesant Cove Park, the Berean Community Drumline will guide the audience to different performance settings in the park, and finally to the main stage for a show-stopping finale. (more…)
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Off the Grid 2010 Sustainable Music Festival
Monday, April 19th, 2010| April 24, 2010 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
NYU Earth Matters is throwing a party for Earth Day’s 40th birthday, and you’re invited! Check out a fabulous exhibit of eco-art from the NYU community and beyond, eat delicious food from the Dosa Man and check out some exciting live entertainment from MC Andrew WK, Cold Cave, Oberhofer and North Highlands, plus a Special Secret Guest so exciting we won’t be able to reveal their name until Saturday morning!
This event is free and open to the public, rain or shine! We hope to see you there!
Posted in Art, Dance, Design, Food, Global Warming, Music, New York City, Organic Farming, Pollution, Recycling, Renewables, Solar One Events, Sustainability, Waste | Permalink
Village Solar starts SociaLite project at Cooper Union
Sunday, April 18th, 2010Two Fridays ago the Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School’s Village Solar team started working with the SociaLite lantern project at the Cooper Union. SociaLite is the name of a durable, low-cost solar-powered lantern designed for use by rural, unelectrified populations. Launched four years ago, the project continues to evolve from the hardwork and creativity of students, faculty and recent alumni of Cooper Union’s school of engineering.
Each Village Solar student will complete their own lantern over the four week collaboration at Cooper Union – that includes full circuit board construction and lantern housing fabrication.
The lanterns will ultimately be powered by small solar charging units that the students will assemble at the conclusion of the course. The units will be modeled after systems that are typical of rural solar applications and will be powered by photovoltaic modules that the students constructed during the first two weeks of the project (view video here).
This video contains scenes from the group’s first two weeks at Cooper, during which they received a crash course in electronics, circuitry and soldering before jumping right into construction of their boards.
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Green Giants: Retrofits for the Twenty-First Century
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
On April 22, the Skyscraper Museum will present a supertall smackdown between two of the most famous buildings in the world: the Empire State Building and Chicago’s Sears Tower, both of which have recently undertaken ambitious greening projects. More information on the Earth Day event, which feature members of each building’s management and design teams, as well as a response by Rohit Aggarwala of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability, is available on the Skyscraper Museum website.
Green Giants
Thursday, April 22, 2010
6:30 – 8:00 PM
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place
Reception to follow across the street at The Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place
FREE
RSVP required at programs[at]skyscraper.org
1.5 CEUs available
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Engineering a Sustainable Reconstruction in Iraq – Part 2
Monday, April 12th, 2010| April 21, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
Columbia Panel w Engineer Kareem 4.21.10
Join Solar One, McKissack & McKissack, CRDF, and the New York Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders as we host a second discussion on the success and challenges of the U.S. Department of State’s Iraq Engineer Enhancement Program (IEEP) at Columbia University. The panel will explore the challenges of rebuilding Iraq’s scientific and technological infrastructure, and the urgency of embracing sustainable technologies.
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center, Columbia University, New York, NY
Register: Email Diana Pangestu at diana@solar1.org, or call (212) 785-0734
Listen as an Iraqi executive and engineer charged with reconstruction of Iraq’s damaged infrastructure describes the technical, professional and societal challenges facing Iraq today.
Learn more about “science diplomacy” as embodied in the Iraq Engineer Enhancement Program (IEEP), a U.S State Department program managed by the Civilian Research and Development Foundation that is designed to connect Iraqi engineers and professionals with the knowledge they need to rebuild their country.
Connect with a growing network of friends and supporters.
Panelists:
Engineer Kareem, CRDF Fellow at the Iraq Engineers Enhancement Program
Nicola Armacost, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Arc Finance
Andrew McNamara, Vice President of New Construction & Renewables at Bright Power Inc
Shawn Garcia, Project Manager at the Civilian Research and Development Foundation
Woodward W. Crouch, PE at AECOM
Lonnie Coplen, Project Manager at McKissack
Moderated by:
Alaa Majeed, Iraqi-American journalist
Chris Neidl, Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator at Solar One
Introduction by Diana Pangestu, Energy $mart Communities Coordinator at Solar One
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