[SEMCO] Program and tour Thursday at Cape Cod Community College

[Muller, Joan (DCR)]

Presentation by Noted Solar Designer/Builder Steven Strong and Tour of
New Green Building at Cape Cod Community College

 

The public is invited to hear Steven Strong, President of Solar Design
Associates, speak at the September meeting of the Cape & Islands
Renewable Energy Collaborative (CIREC) at the new Lorusso Applied
Technology Building at Cape Cod Community College (CCCC) in West
Barnstable on Thursday, September 21.  From 6:30 - 7 pm, CCCC staff will
lead a tour of this high-performance green building.  At 7 pm, Steven
Strong will give a visual presentation-Sunlight is Life: The Path Toward
a Sustainable Future.  After his presentation, there will be a
networking session with light refreshments. This presentation is
sponsored by the Cape and Islands Renewable Energy Collaborative
(www.cirenew.org <http://www.cirenew.org/> ) .

 

Mr. Strong will give a world overview of solar photovoltaic (PV)
architecture using the best examples of residential and commercial-scale
buildings from Europe, Japan and the US.  Sunlight is Life weaves
technology, politics and social policy together with humor and
compelling graphics to demonstrate that the end of cheap oil is upon us
and that renewable energy is ready here and now to help define the path
to a sustainable future in the post-petroleum world.  According to Mr.
Strong, today's PV-powered buildings provide a window into a coming era
of environmentally responsive, energy-producing structures where
elegant, life-affirming technologies become commonplace as integral
parts of the built environment.

 

Mr. Strong's firm, Solar Design Associates, designed the PV array on
CCCC's new building.  Over the last 25 years, he has designed dozens of
homes and buildings powered by solar electricity.  In 1984, working with
New England Electric, he completed the world's first PV-powered
neighborhood in central Massachusetts.  In 1996, he designed the world's
largest roof-top PV system to help power the Summer Olympic Games in
Atlanta.  In 2002, he designed and supervised the installation of three
solar energy systems at the White House in Washington, DC. He has
numerous books and other publications to his credit and has served as an
advisor on energy and environmental issues to three U.S. governors, four
congressmen, eight senators and four presidential candidates, as well as
a number of electric utilities. 

 

Mr. Strong will give a world overview of solar photovoltaic (PV)
architecture using the best examples of residential and commercial-scale
buildings from Europe, Japan and the US.  Sunlight is Life weaves
technology, politics and social policy together with humor and
compelling graphics to demonstrate that the end of cheap oil is upon us
and that renewable energy is ready here and now to help define the path
to a sustainable future in the post-petroleum world.  According to Mr.
Strong, today's PV-powered buildings provide a window into a coming era
of environmentally responsive, energy-producing structures where
elegant, life-affirming technologies become commonplace as integral
parts of the built environment.

 

Mr. Strong's firm, Solar Design Associates, designed the PV array on
CCCC's new building.  Over the last 25 years, he has designed dozens of
homes and buildings powered by solar electricity.  In 1984, working with
New England Electric, he completed the world's first PV-powered
neighborhood in central Massachusetts.  In 1996, he designed the world's
largest roof-top PV system to help power the Summer Olympic Games in
Atlanta.  In 2002, he designed and supervised the installation of three
solar energy systems at the White House in Washington, DC. He has
numerous books and other publications to his credit and has served as an
advisor on energy and environmental issues to three U.S. governors, four
congressmen, eight senators and four presidential candidates, as well as
a number of electric utilities. 

 

 

 

Joan C. Muller

Education Coordinator

Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

508-457-0495 x107

Box 3092

Waquoit, MA 02536

joan.muller at state.ma.us

 

 

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