Scenes from Family Day: Pollinators and Food on June 26
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Volunteer extraordinaire Tom Eccardt serves up handmade mulberry ice cream, made with mulberries grown in Stuy Cove Park, to an enthusiastic crowd at Family Day on June 26. All photos are by Solar One photo intern Maya Cramer.
Tomorrow we’ll be having our second annual creature-themed Family Day, but in June we had a Family Day that revolved around pollinators and food. We learned about pollinating creatures like bees, moths, flies and butterflies, colored pictures of pollinators and made puppets out of them (this activity is always a hit, and is affectionately known as Bugs-On-A-Stick), sampled sprouts grown from native plants seeds, and best of all, made ice cream without an ice cream maker! Check out the pictures after the jump to find out how we did it! And also a big, heartfelt “Thank You” to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer for supporting Family Day!
Posted in Art, Design, Education, Food, Native Plants | Permalink
New York City the Future Metropolis
Thursday, May 6th, 2010| June 10, 2010 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
If you were not one of the 300 people who attended our recent event, “New York City the Future Metropolis,” you can see the speakers’ presentations on the event’s website. Also, feel free to contact them with any follow up questions.
www.solar1.org/nycfuturemetropolis
If you were there, thank you for coming! Because of your overwhelming response and support, we are planning to do this event again next year! Check back on our website to see who will be in next year’s lineup of some of the most creative minds in New York’s building industry.
Posted in Cleantech, Design, East River, Energy, Energy $mart Communities, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, NYSERDA, New York City, Renewables, Solar One, Solar One Events, Stuyvesant Cove Park, Sustainability, Technology | Permalink
NYC Wildflower Week Interactive Plant Fair This Saturday at Solar One
Monday, May 3rd, 2010| May 8, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 2:00 pm |
Join Solar One for our first Family Day, this Saturday May 8 from 10am to 2pm. Pot your own native plant, make a seed bomb, or a flower costume, or a watercolor painting, have your face painted and learn about worm composting! All free, all at Solar One- we hope to see you there!
RSVP to daisy@solar1.org or dina@solar1.org
Posted in Art, Design, Education, Music, Native Plants, Solar One Events, Sustainability | Permalink
Off the Grid 2010 Sustainable Music Festival
Monday, April 19th, 2010| April 24, 2010 | ||
| 3:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
NYU Earth Matters is throwing a party for Earth Day’s 40th birthday, and you’re invited! Check out a fabulous exhibit of eco-art from the NYU community and beyond, eat delicious food from the Dosa Man and check out some exciting live entertainment from MC Andrew WK, Cold Cave, Oberhofer and North Highlands, plus a Special Secret Guest so exciting we won’t be able to reveal their name until Saturday morning!
This event is free and open to the public, rain or shine! We hope to see you there!
Posted in Art, Dance, Design, Food, Global Warming, Music, New York City, Organic Farming, Pollution, Recycling, Renewables, Solar One Events, Sustainability, Waste | Permalink
Worlds Collide: Mary Tchamkina Interviews Greg Kiss for GreenHomeNYC
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
If you came to a Solar One event last summer, or if you’ve attended any of our Green From the Inside Out workshops, you may know, and have most likely seen, NYSERDA E$C Program Assistant Mary Tchamkina. But did you know that she’s a wonderful designer and aspiring architect? It’s true! And now she can add another talent to her resume: journalism. When she’s not working at Solar One or preparing grad school applications, Mary finds time to work as a staff volunteer for GreenHome NYC, a community-oriented, volunteer-run organization that promotes green building practices in our city. And it just so happens that they recently published an interview she did with Greg Kiss of Kiss+Cathcart Architects, the very same firm that designed the Solar 1 building and are designing Solar 2!
You can read the interview here.
Posted in Design, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, New York City, Photovoltaics, Solar 2, Sustainability, Technology | Permalink
