Tickets Now Available from Rooftop Films for Gasland Screening at Solar One
Thursday, August 19th, 2010| September 11, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
On Saturday September 11, we’ll be kicking off the 2010 Solar-Powered Film Series as the NYC stop on Rooftop Films Gasland tour.
This will be a rare ticketed event, tickets are $10 and can be purchased on the Rooftop Films website. If there are still tickets available on the day of the event, they will be available to purchase at the door. Solar One will not be selling tickets, but we’ll try and update as we get closer to the date and let people know if/when the show sells out.
Doors open at 8:00pm
Live Music TBD at 8:30pm
Films begins at 9:00pm
Q&A/reception at 10:30pm
Tickets are $10, available HERE!
Posted in Energy, Film, New York City, Pollution, Solar One, Solar One Events, Water | Permalink
2009 Solar-Powered Film Series Continues for Second Week
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009It looks like the weather will hold and the films will go on as scheduled this weekend! For those of you who have not memorized the schedule yet:
Thurs Sept 17: A Sea Change, 2008, 85 mins.
Fri Sept 18: The Garden, 2008, 80 mins.
Sat Sept 19: Burning In the Sun, 2009, 65 mins.
Rain Date for any of the above: Sun Sept 20
For trailers and descriptions, please visit http://solar1.org/events/film.
Posted in Energy, Film, Food, Global Warming, Organic Farming, Photovoltaics, Pollution, Water | Permalink
Solar-Powered Film Series: “A Sea Change”
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009| September 17, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Thursday September 17
Short: Bird Bath Bakery (from From Elegance to Earthworms)
Feature: A Sea Change
To focus public attention on the dangers of ocean acidification, film maker Sven Huseby embarks on a picturesque odyssey that leads him to small fishing villages whose cash crop is at risk, native communities whose way of life is being threatened, activists working to combat the crisis, and individuals who are changing their lifestyles to make a difference at the most local level.
Speakers: Angela Alston & Baerbel Hoenisch
In addition to making the award-winning film Reclaiming Water (2003), Angela Alston has served as publicist/outreach director for her own work and for other projects, including the Loisaida Cortos Latino Film Festival, Listen With Your Eyes, and Alwan for the Arts. For two years, Angela was Workshop Director for CineWomen NY. She also served as Public Affairs Coordinator for Cornish College of the Arts for three years and is the former Technical Director of Democracy Now!
Baerbel Hoenisch’s research interests focus on understanding the role of the ocean and the effects of marine carbonate chemistry on global climate change. As she was originally trained as a marine biologist, her way of approaching paleoceanographic questions often includes a biological component. She is specifically interested in the validation and application of the boron isotope proxy for past seawater pH.
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Solar-Powered Film Series “Flow: For The Love Of Water”
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009| September 12, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Saturday, September 12th, 7pm
Short: Loyale (taken from From Elegance to Earthworms)
Feature: FLOW: For Love of Water
Experts are calling the World Water Crisis the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century. This film presents the case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching eye on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.
Speaker: John Mundy, Project Manager, Majora Carter Group
John Mundy serves as Project Manager for the Majora Carter Group. The Majora Carter Group is a pioneering consulting group that builds highly productive relationships between organizations and across sectors to help civic, business and nonprofit organizations understand how to meet their needs by working together through green economic avenues.
Posted in Art, Education, Film, Solar One Events, Sustainability, Waste, Water | Permalink
Finally! Hudson Clean-Up Begins!
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Sometime in the near future, you won’t even need to think twice about frying up that prize striper you hooked out of the Hudson.
After twenty-five years of court appeals and other evasive measures employed by General Electric, the first of what will be many scoops of PCB-laden sludge was dredged from the Hudson River this past Friday as the result of a “good-faith” agreement with the EPA. The massive effort, only Phase One of the project, is expected to require the around-the-clock operation of twelve dredges six days a week through 2015; assuming this phase runs its course, this would equal 48,672 hours for the removal of sediment that has been accumulating since the end of the Wisconsin glaciation period around 12,000 years ago, but took two GE plants and other chemical facilities only thirty years to contaminate. The dried sludge will then be trucked to a landfill in Texas, while the river water will be pumped through a filtration plant and returned to continue its meandering course.
Nearly 200 miles of the river from Hudson Falls to the tip of Manhattan, just under two-thirds of the Hudson’s total length, was declared a Superfund site in 1984, and though GE has now adopted a veneer of compliance, it also continues to challenge the constitutionality of the legislation – the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) -that determines Superfund status and culpability. As part of the agreement, GE has also given itself an out clause – it will review the status of the project in 2010 and can then decide to opt out. The total cost of this phase is estimated at $750 million but could be much greater, though GE has declined to provide an estimate, a decision that, compounded by these other compromises, does little to alleviate the pervasive skepticism within the environmental community.
Still, the fact that the clean-up project is now more than simply a contentious point of debate is cause for at least tepid celebration. I imagine most of those keeping a close eye on this will remain patient until the 2010 review process is complete before any claims of restitution will finally be made. Meanwhile, for the past quarter century, those PCBs and their fellow contaminants have been just sitting there in the river bottom ooze, waiting for the party responsible to own up and make that first move.
Sources: “Dredging of Pollutants Begins in Hudson”, The New York Times, May 15, 2009;“”Reclaiming a River”, The New York Times, May 16, 2009; “Shaking Off “Man’s Taint, Hudson Pulses With Life”, The New York Times, June 9, 1996; “What was the Wisconsin Glaciation?” Wisegeek.com;“25-Year-Old Hudson River Cleanup Plan Starts Today”, Running Scared (blogs.villagevoice.com), May 15, 2009; “Pollution and the Hudson River”, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies (www.ecostudies.org); Hudson River Sloop Clearwater (www.clearwater.org).
Posted in Legislation, Pollution, Waste, Water | Permalink
