NYC Wildflower Week Celebration at Solar One
Monday, May 5th, 2008
On Saturday May 10th from 10am-2pm, Solar One will be hosting a celebration of Native Plants as part of NYC’s first Wild Flower Week. This free event will focus on educating children on the importance of native plants and to celebrate them through fun interactive activities in Stuyvesant Cove Park. Appropriate for ages 3-12.
Activities include:
Potting up your own native plants to take home
Making seed balls to disperse somewhere in the city
Bingo and crossword puzzles
Worm composting demonstration by The Lower East Side Ecology Center
“Pretend you’re a plant” interactive park tour
Create your own plant hat and/or costume by The New York Restoration Project
Coloring your favorite native plant
All are welcome, please come and join us!
Posted in Education, Native Plants, New York City, Solar One, Stuyvesant Cove Park, Sustainability | Permalink
Green Design Lab at the Center for Architecture
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
April 18th was the final day of an ongoing education project with Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School called the Green Design Lab. Students explored issues of sustainability through green design, using their school building as focal point to develop a school greening strategy that goes far beyond a recycling program. The final sessions was a student exhibition of their final models hosted at the Center for Architecture. Learn more about the program and how to get your school involved in this unique education project here.
And make sure to watch a short video of students involved in the project and their final school greening strategies!
Posted in Education, New York City | Permalink
The Green Design Lab Final Project Presentation
Thursday, April 10th, 2008| April 18, 2008 | ||
| 5:00 pm | to | 6:30 pm |
Join students from Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School as they present the final projects from a class called the Green Design Lab. The projects investigate how to green their school building through sustainable design techniques. A brief presentation, poster series and 3D models of these sustainability strategies will be shown throughout the evening. Open to community members, family and friends, this reception is meant to stimulate a dialogue about how to green NYC’s public schools through innovative green design and student involvement.
The Green Design Lab, a joint project between Solar One: Green Energy, Arts and Education Center and Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School was initiated fall 2007 to explore issues of sustainability through the lens of design, architecture and sustainable technology.
For more information, go to www.solar1.org/education.
Friday, April 18th | 5 - 6:30pm
The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY
Refreshments will be served!
Posted in Education, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, New York City, Solar One, Solar One Events | Permalink
Solar One in Eyebeam’s FEEDBACK Exhibition
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Eyebeam’s expansive new exhibition, FEEDBACK, surveys artists, designers, architects and engineers on the topic of sustainability, and presents their responses—19 projects varying from public art projects and industrial design to DIY energy solutions and software tools—to inspire discussion and action on this pervasive (and increasingly commodified) subject.
As the culmination of Eyebeam’s Beyond Light Bulbs programming series, the show highlights the concerns, interests and work of Eyebeam’s Sustainability Research Group, with work by individuals, collectives, students, local community groups and the Eco-Vis Challenge winners. Free, artist-run workshops are integral to the exhibition’s design and are scheduled Saturdays throughout the show’s duration. See Solar One in the FEEDBACK exhibition today at Eyebeam: 540 W. 21st St.
Posted in Art, Education, Energy, S1 in the News | Permalink
Energy Audit at Manhattan Comprehensive H.S.
Monday, March 10th, 2008
On Friday, March 7th, Solar One and the Community Environmental Center (CEC) teamed up to provide Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School with an energy audit of their school building. Students followed auditors around the school as they performed their analysis, learning how to quantify the energy use throughout the building.
Posted in Education, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, Solar One | Permalink
Unlimited Energy Can Happen
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
We can do it, and if you have any doubts read a great comic from psych band/clean energy supporter: Lavender Diamond [link]
Posted in Art, Education, Energy, Solar One | Permalink
Eyebeam Announces Winners of Eco-Vis Challenge
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St. (between 10th Ave. and 11th Ave.), NYC
At a public reception at Eyebeam Saturday, December 15, Executive Director Amanda McDonald Crowley announced the winners of Eyebeam’s two-part, online Eco-Vis Challenge competition. Oz Etzioni’s Unrecyclable Icon was awarded a $2000 grand prize in the Eco-Icons category, and the Studio for Urban Projects’ In Popular Terms, the Evolving Language of Ecology was awarded a $2000 grand prize in the Eco-Visualization category. The winning projects will be previewed during the month of January, and exhibited as part of Eyebeam’s Feedback show in March 2008.
Posted in Art, Education, Waste | Permalink
New Video of Green Renter Lecture Up Online
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
For the past three years, our Green Renter lecture series has drawn New Yorkers from all over the five boroughs to Solar 1 to learn about green issues that confront urban dwellers, including programs on recycling, local food, urban planning and the redevelopment of New York Harbor’s native oyster population, among many others. Now, even if you weren’t able to attend in person, you can see the presentation and hear the lectures online! The first available Green Renter is the Sheridan Swap, a plan for transforming the Sheridan Expressway into green space, presented by the South Bronx Watershed Alliance. You can check it out here, and we encourage you to come back often as we’ll be adding more Green Renters very soon.
The next Green Renter will be held Tuesday, January 15 at 7:00pm. The topic is “NYC Greener Gadgets Conference Preview”; come see the fantastic new green electronic products that will be shown at the conference being held in NYC on February 1, and get tips on how to recycle your old cell phone and iPod.
Posted in Education, New York City, Recycling, Renewables, Solar One | Permalink
A Wetlands in a School?! Amazing!
Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. is my dream school, it has a wetlands in the middle courtyard! Can you imagine!? Take a peak at their interactive tour! [ here ]From the American Institute of Architects: Top 10 Green Building Projects of 2007
Designed to foster an ethic of social and environmental responsibility in each student, the facility demonstrates a responsible relationship between the natural and the built environment.
Bicycle storage and showers are available, and the building is located within walking distance of a subway stop and several bus stops. Parking is available in an underground lot. A green roof and constructed wetland reduce stormwater runoff, improve the quality of infiltrated runoff, and reduce municipal water use. The wetland treats wastewater for reuse in the toilets and cooling towers.
The building was sited to take advantage of passive solar design. Together with high-efficiency electric lighting, photosensors, and occupancy sensors, daylighting minimizes lighting energy use. Solar-ventilation chimneys, operable windows, and ceiling fans minimize the need for mechanical cooling. Rather than develop a utility plant for this building alone, a central plant was created to serve the entire campus. A photovoltaic array generates about 5% of the building’s electricity needs.
Reclaimed materials include exterior cladding, flooring and decking, and the stone used for landscaping. Interior finishes were selected for their high levels of recycled content, low chemical emissions, and use of rapidly renewable materials. [ continue reading ]
Posted in Build It Green, Education, Waste | Permalink
Graphic Design as Treehugging
Monday, November 12th, 2007 Below is an entry from the “Love Your Earth” competition from Design Boom.Pretty neato right?
More images here
Posted in Art, Education, Energy, Energy Efficiency | Permalink
