Solar One’s Green Design Lab Featured in the Wall St Journal!
Check out this awesome video from the Wall St Journal about Solar One’s Green Design Lab program in the NYC Public schools! You can also read the article HERE at WSJ Online.
Big thanks to the NYC DOE and to all the partners and funders who have helped us this program a success. And congratulations to the Education Team on their incredible work!
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Green Design Lab In The News & Applications for 2011-12
Solar One’s Green Design Lab program has been going strong this school year as we have delivered the program to 10 schools across New York City. The program teaches students about energy and sustainability through a variety of lessons and activities using their own school to demonstrate how buildings and their occupants use resources. Students then take these lessons and apply them to greening projects that reduce consumption by bringing together teachers, students, administrators, janitorial staff and parents to effect changes.
Last week, the program got some nice coverage from the Manhattan Times – a bilingual newspaper serving Inwood and Washington Heights in upper Manhattan. The article focuses on our work with PS 187 in Washington Heights where Solar One educators have been helping students save energy as part of the Green Cup Challenge and create the beginnings of a rooftop garden to reduce cooling costs for the building.
PS 187 students load soil into jean planters to be used in the rooftop garden for their school.
The program has been a rousing success and we are thankful to see such a warm write-up of the program and its accomplishments. We are already gearing up to implement the program in more schools during 2011-12. If you are interested in bringing the program to your or your children’s school next year, you can download the application from the Green Design Lab site, or click here to download it in PDF or MSWord format.
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Solar 2 Secures Nearly $1.1M in New Funding
As spring kicks into high gear, we are happy to report that the Solar 2 campaign is also gaining some significant momentum. We got some coverage from DNAinfo and Inhabitat back in February. Now this week we have been notified of two new grants that move us closer to breaking ground on our groundbreaking project.
The first grant comes from the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) through their Green Innovation Grant Program (GIGP). The EFC is a public benefit corporation providing low-cost capital and expert technical assistance for environmental projects in New York State while promoting innovative environmental technologies. The GIGP program is a competitive process that contributes “seed money for projects which spur green innovation, build green capacity, and facilitate technology transfer throughout the State.”
View of Solar 2 from the North (rendering by Kiss + Cathcart)
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Going Solar on Block Island
Last 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.
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Solar One Is Famous!
Check out this cool video from New Tang Dynasty Television! They covered our Revelry By the River fundraising gala a few weeks ago:
You can also check out an article in the NY Observer about Solar One, Solar 2 and the Platt sisters HERE. It’s official: Chris Collins is dapper!
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