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.
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Futurefarmers + Solar One Collaboration Mentioned in NY Metro
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Modern Victory Gardens may ease urban hunger
by amy zimmer / metro new york
FEB 12, 2008
UNION SQUARE. To Amy Franceschini, the empty space in front of the Gandhi statue here could be an urban garden. The windows on buildings could have boxes for herbs and tomatoes. The roofs could have raised beds.
Franceschini, founder of the San Francisco-based design collective Futurefarmers, has convinced her city to plant crops in front of its City Hall as part of a pilot program to turn yards, balconies and unused land into food production areas. [...]
Franceschini plans to document their gardens online and help other cities adopt the program. She’s been contacted by several New York groups, she said, including Grow Greenpoint.com, the Conflux festival and Solar One.
“We want our audience to think about the potential for change through participation, but also about the messy politics of implementation”… full article
more on victory gardens: here
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Solar 2 Featured in GreenSource Magazine
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Design for a Carbon-Free Life: The Pursuit of “Net” Zero Energy
October 2007
A Growing Number of Projects Focus Attention On An Elusive Goal
By Molly Miller
Buildings are responsible for nearly half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions and consume more than 70 percent of the electricity generated by U.S. power plants, according to the Energy Information Administration. These numbers have become more and more widely cited in the press and are the mantra of Santa Fe-based architect Edward Mazria, who has long spoken out on the link between buildings and global warming. In 2002, Mazria founded Architecture 2030, a non-profit organization with the mission of dramatically reducing the building sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. In late 2005, the group issued the 2030 Challenge, calling for an immediate 50 percent reduction in fossil fuel use in new buildings and for climate-neutral buildings by 2030. (full article)
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Solar One Films Presents Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Issue 375
August 16, 2007
Even after the planet is ruined by ill-advised nuclear strikes, the military brass in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove obsess over Russia’s capacity to build more effective fallout shelters — a twisted lesson on the dangers of single-minded politics. - JW
Note: Other films in Solar One’s free, eco-friendly series (Wed-Fri: 8.15-8.24) include Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (1985) and Mel Brooks’ 1974 camp classic Young Frankenstein.
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Follow the Sun Panel
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Alternative energy powers alternative entertainment on the East River
By Rachel Fershleiser
August 2007
Outdoor movies, free dance performances, open-air concerts—there are so many reasons to skip the Hamptons and enjoy the electric summer streets of New York City. But what about all that electricity? What if the things keeping urban life great aren’t keeping it green?
Enter Solar One. The green energy, arts, and education center is an entirely solar powered building designed to inspire New Yorkers to be environmentally responsible city dwellers. Located in Stuyvesant Cove Park, where the East River meets 23rd Street, Solar One is an easy bike ride or beautiful stroll from the Lower East Side. (more…)
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Selling a Lofty Concept (Free Energy) by Appealing to a Basic Desire: Free Beer
Sunday, July 15th, 2007
Gregory Altman enjoyed a free Brooklyn Lager while talking with Lorrie Cleneger, an employee of Community Energy, after he signed up to use wind power.
By Tim Murphy
July 15, 2007
To shake up an often apathetic public, environmentalists have sometimes appealed to fear (warnings about rising seas, Al Gore’s movie) and theatrics (tree-hugging, crying American Indians on TV). (more…)
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‘Green’-Lighted
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
April 28, 2007
SOLAR FLAIR: The futuristic “zero-carbon” center will open in 2009.
Eco-Friendly Center A City Groundbreaker
By Sharri Markson
Construction of the first building in the nation to leave a “zero carbon footprint” will begin next year on the East Side.
The eco-friendly center will be open to the public with interactive environmental exhibits, a cafe, bookstore and green theater, showing films powered by the sun. Construction is slated to begin in September 2008 and will open a year later. (more…)
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Three Exemplars
Friday, November 17th, 2006
November 17, 2006
Until recently, sustainable architecture had suffered a serious image problem. Overshadowed by Southwestern earthdomes, sod-roofed shacks and other granola-flavored efforts, and further hindered by the clumsy contemporary work of some of the movement’s leading protagonists, ecological architecture is still far away from being regarded as simply a sub-set (or super-set) of outstanding design. Elsewhere in the world, this perception is changing; for example, many of the works of Norman Foster and Renzo Piano are being admired as architectural achievements whose designs are inextricable from their environmental rewards. Here are a few buildings in New York that are laudable for integrating high performance and handsome design. CHL
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Best Of…
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
October 18, 2006
Best Music Festival That Runs By The Sun’s Rays- Solar One
It’s one thing to have a nice bright day to enjoy a good outdoor show, for Solar One, it’s a must. For their summer shows, the bands don’t have to plug into any outlets to play. At their Stuyvesant Cove Park outpost on the East River, their offices aren’t just for administrative work and education workshops: The roof of the building is made up of 80 solar panels, which generate enough juice for the groups. For the past year, this setup has worked well- except for some cloud cover that stopped the last DJ from getting ray power at the end of a concert and a show that was postponed because of rain. (The organization will now have a biodiesel generator in place as a backup for future cloudy-day gigs.) So far, indie mavens like Japanther and Parts & Labor have graced their stage. And though it presently only does a handful of shows each summer, the group hopes to produce year-round events, in the process alerting music fans to environmental issues: wind energy, recycling, and other green initiatives like, you guessed it, solar power. (Jason Gross) (more…)
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Editorial
Friday, September 15th, 2006
September 2006
Thanks to the efforts of E-News subscribers, the AIA, and the sponsorship of mayors from the four corners of the U.S., Albuquerque, Chicago, Seattle and Miami, the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) formally adopted ‘The 2030 Challenge’ in June, 2006. U.S. mayors sent the clear message that local leaders are willing to take action on the important issues of climate change and energy independence. And they are taking action. (more…)
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