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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Solar One at Honda Manufacturing Alabama
Solar One hit the road last week to offer teachers in five counties around Birmingham, Alabama a workshop on Solar One’s Professional Development program – the Green Innovator. Teachers learned how to use the Green Innovator curriculum, got a chance to try a hands-on activity and got a full tour of Honda’s Manufacturing Plant in Lincoln, AL from the perspective of an environmental engineer on staff.
Check out the full report from Fox News Alabama:
FOXe Report: Green Innovator
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC-TV MyFoxAL.com) – An environmental lesson on wheels…Ronda Robinson explains why some area teachers made little solar powered cars, and hit the road with them…more
The Green Innovator is supported by JAMA – the Japanese Automobile Manufacturing Association and The Motorola Foundation.
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Chris Neidl in the GOOD 100!
Each year, GOOD Magazine assembles a list of 100 “people, businesses, and institutions driving change in the world.” This year we are proud to see that they have chosen Solar One’s Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator Chris Neidl as one of their 100. Chris has been tireless in his work buidling programs at Solar One and working to make the case for the promotion and implementation of solar power, so it’s nice to see his efforts getting significant recognition.
Check out the video to see Chris (and his five o’clock shadow) talking to an animated news anchor and explaining why New York City is ripe to be the solar capital of the East Coast. He also talks briefly about the portable solar chargers that he and his students built as part of the I Heart PV program.
There’s lots more coming from Solar One and I Heart PV in coming weeks and months, starting with next week’s Solar Party at Southpaw in Brooklyn. We hope you can join us!
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Chris Collins Interview on Alternative Channel TV- Holcim Gold 2008
Interview with Christopher J. Collins, Gold winner of the 2008 Holcim Awards North America. Chris Collins, Executive Director, won the Holcim Awards Gold 2008 for his project: Solar 2 Green Energy Arts and Education Center, New York, USA
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Solar Pavilion 3 Featured In Interior Design
The centerpiece of Solar One’s Citysol festival this past June, Solar Pavilion 3 continues to receive accolades. The temporary structure, designed and constructed by Brooklyn-based Situ Studio, is featured in the Centerfold section of Interior Design magazine’s September issue. Assembled from slotted strips of plywood, the pavilion provided multiple uses during the course of the festival as a lecture/presentation space, bar, and shade/rest area for festival-goers. Like Situ’s previous pavilions for Citysol, this year’s incorporated organic, flowing forms that harmonized with the curvilinear pathways of Stuyvesant Cove Park and captured the general spirit of sustainability that is at the festival’s core. As always, all materials used to make Solar Pavilion 3 were reused or recycled.
Congratulations to our partners at Situ Studio for this deserved recognition. We can’t wait to see what they come up with next year…
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