🎉 Come see us at LIC Partnership’s annual community street festival LIC Springs! on May 31, along Vernon Boulevard, where Solar One (NYC Environmental Education Non-profit) will have hands on solar-powered activities for kids, rooftop solar guidance, FREE community solar registration information, and more! We will also be sharing more details about our programs that […]
Come get up close & personal with the finned friends of the East River Estuary! Thanks to our ongoing collaboration with Lower East Side Ecology Center, we are once again offering barb-free fishing clinics this fall! Thursday September 4th, with 1 hour slots 5:30PM - 6:30PM and 6:30PM - 7:30PM Please arrive at your designated […]
On Tuesday, September 9th, 2025, we are hosting Solar One’s People-Power for the Planet Community Social: a joyful, outdoor celebration for the Grand Opening of the brand-new Solar One Environmental Education Center. From hands-on learning programs to green space restoration and environmental advocacy, Solar One brings people-power together to produce real climate solutions for our […]
Join us for a morning of connecting to land and one another at Stuyvesant Cove, a waterside native plant park just a few blocks down the street from the Manhattan VA. This event is for Women Veterans and their families-- regardless of discharge status-- and we'll harvest and learn about the edible and medicinal plants […]
On September 21st, Solar One is supporting the global Sun Day movement, organized by the environmental author Bill McKibben in collaboration with his organization Third Act. This will take place at the Friend's Meeting House and spill into Stuyvesant Square Park where we will offer panel discussions, family friendly activities, and immediate ways we can […]
Come get up close & personal with the finned friends of the East River Estuary! Thanks to our ongoing collaboration with Lower East Side Ecology Center, we are once again offering barb-free fishing clinics this fall! Thursday October 2nd, with 1 hour slots 5PM - 6PM and 6PM - 7PM Please arrive at your designated […]
Our new Environmental Education Center is finally open, and we are ready to start making moves on our new food forest education garden! Join Stuy Cove Park staff for a morning of stewardship as we talk, think, build, and welcome some new edible species into the space. We'll get our hands in the soil and […]
The Solar One Gala: Learning & Growing Together, on Thursday, October 16th, 2025, will be an evening soirée by the East River, celebrating the supporters, partners, and visionaries who helped turn the decades-long dream of the Environmental Education Center into reality. The Center is a thriving hub for climate education, community action, and green space […]
The NYC Public Schools Office of Energy and Sustainability and Solar One's Green Design Lab (GDL) team have been partnering for more than 9 years to provide energy and solar professional learning opportunities, called Climate and Energy Education Intensives (CEEI) for NYCPS teachers. This program is FREE for interested teachers; all costs are covered through […]
Join us for the Fall 2025 Community Ecology Reading Group, in partnership with NYC Parks GreenThumb! This media meetup is a non-traditional book club with an open-ended, collaborative twist. Here’s how it works: Bring a book, article, podcast, film, or any media related to this season’s theme—Death—along with a brief quote or snippet you’d like […]
oin us for a morning of connecting to land and one another at Stuyvesant Cove, a waterside native plant park just a few blocks down the street from the Manhattan VA. This event is for Women Veterans and their families-- regardless of discharge status. As the growing season winds down we'll come together to learn […]
Join us this Thursday, November 20th, in Astoria to experience the solar-powered carts built by and for students! In partnership with Variety Boys & Girls Club Queens and New York Climate Exchange , we're proud to co-host this showcase of renewable energy education that our young students were able to learn, master, build, and then pass on to […]
