Solar One Is Famous!
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Check 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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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
Chris Collins Interview on Alternative Channel TV- Holcim Gold 2008
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Interview 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 One Wins Holcim Gold 2008 Award
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Solar One is extremely proud to announce that we have been awarded the prestigious Holcim Gold 2008 North America Award (pictured) for Solar 2, the net-zero energy use building that will be constructed on the Solar One blacktop starting in 2009. Along with the trophy, there is a $100K prize. Projects with a high expectation of completion are especially valued in the competition, and Solar 2 was praised as “bringing the eco-building vision into reality”.
The awards are given by the Swiss-based Holcim Foundation to projects in 5 regions of the world. The top projects are automatically selected for the Holcim International Award, with the winner to be announced in Lucerne, Switzerland in May 2009. The winner of the International Gold Award is also awarded a cash prize of $650K.
Solar One Executive Director Chris Collins accepted the award Thursday night in Montreal, along with architect Colin Cathcart of Kiss+Cathcart and Nigel Nicholls of engineering firm Arup, thanking the Holcim Foundation for their support of the Solar 2 project. “We are excited to have received this prestigious international award,” said Chris Collins. “It recognizes the need for a building like Solar 2, particularly in NYC, where buildings account for 79% of CO2 emissions.”
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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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