Film Crew Travels Cross Country Showing How Solar Is Working for America and Putting America Back to Work
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Award-winning director and producer Alan Blake traveled cross-country, from Massachusetts to California, visiting the people that use solar power or work in the industry. The Solar Generation USA Road Trip campaign chronicles his three-week trip as a three-part online webisode series to educate the public on the benefits of solar energy.
Webisode No. 1 focuses on the Northeast capturing smaller residential and commercial applications, from a boat marina, fire station and horse farm, to a New York City rooftop and the Crayola Crayon manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania. Webisode No. 2 captures installations in the Midwest including a zoo (with ‘solar bears’), a gas station converted to a solar charging station for electric vehicles, the Ohio Governor’s mansion and a solar manufacturing facility. The last webisode (Webisode No. 3) covers larger scale solar in the West including Denver International Airport, a Garbett Homes community with both solar water heating and solar electric as standard features, Colorado State University, the ballpark of the 2010 World Series champions, the San Francisco Giants, and a Napa Valley vineyard.
Check it out and pass it on: www.solargenerationusa.org
Posted in Education, Energy, Energy $mart Communities, Energy Efficiency, New York City, Photovoltaics, Photovoltaics, Solar Power | Permalink
Going Solar on Block Island
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010Last month, Solar One spent some time talking to the folks at Now Or Never Radio. Producer Sarah Bacon was investigating solar as an option for her mother’s house on Block Island, Rhode Island and Operations Manager Jamie Paquette helped walk her through the process and available incentives. Then she consulted with an installer to help get the ball rolling. It’s a lot of good information for anyone considering going solar on their own home. You can listen here.
Block Island has no electrical connection to the mainland and the electricity on the island comes mostly from diesel generators. This makes their electricity rates among the highest anywhere. There are plans to build an offshore wind farm to help supply electricity to the island, though they are currently hung up in a legal battle. This means that Block Island is particularly ripe for solar development, since the incentives available and the high cost of energy will combine to reduce the payback period significantly. We hope Sarah will update us as the project progresses.
Posted in Energy, Housing, Photovoltaics, Renewables, S1 in the News, Solar Power | Permalink
Environmental and Cultural Sustenance in Times of Peril and Promise: A Presentation by Osprey Orielle Lake
Thursday, November 4th, 2010| November 20, 2010 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 4:30 pm |
Osprey Orielle Lake is a lifelong advocate of social and environmental justice issues, the Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus and an international sculptor. She will discuss some of the topics in her new book, Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature. including:
Unfolding historical and current information that shines a unique light on causes leading to our current global environmental peril, while also providing a well of hope and insight about what we can do now
Infusing our cultural discourse with the language and wisdom of nature, seeing nature as a model for societal change, and learning to bring this vocabulary front and center in our everyday lives
Exploring a new kind of kinship with nature while acknowledging the treasures of urban life
Becoming alert to images, language, stories and media that either distances or enhances our relationship to the natural world and our local bioregions
There will also be a visual component to this thought-provoking and timely presentation.
Osprey Orielle Lake, MA, is a lifelong advocate of social and environmental justice issues. She is the Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, on the governing Board of Praxis Peace Institute and an advisor to the International Eco-Cities Standards initiative. Osprey has traveled to five continents studying ancient and modern cultures while making presentations at international conferences and universities. She is the Founder/Artist of the International Cheemah Monument Project, creating 18 foot bronze sculpture monuments for locations around the world, where people can ponder a better future for the earth and humanity. Osprey’s unique perspectives as a renowned international sculptor and public speaker on environmental issues have been featured on both national and European television. Her book, Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature, has just been released by White Cloud Press, and will be available for sale at the event.
RSVP to dina[at]solar1[dot]org.
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The Green Salon
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010| November 10, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
On Wednesday, November 10th, please join The Global Change Foundation for their 16th Green Salon event. Soprano Claire Coolen will open the evening, followed by NYSERDA Energy $mart Communities Coordinator, Max Joel of Solar One, and his presentation ”Here Comes The Sun: Solar Initiatives in New York City”. The event begins at 6pm. A $20 donation to The Green Salon is requested at the door or online.
The Green Salon
Wednesday, November 10 at 6pm
Bechstein Piano Center
207 West 58th Street (West of 58th and 7th)
$20 donation
For more information about Green Salon and their events, please visit: https://www.global-changefoundation.com/content/green-salon
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