| News Update:
(Since this is now a grave site recently opened
for posterity and public scrutiny, for full up-to-the-minute updates, until
and unless the Gangs of SoNo really gets started again, go to the CTSOS list on the
http://www.greenburbs.com
website to keep posted on things...
- Remy C.)
Thursday Feb 20th 2003
We're a go to tape Bill McDonough at
the New York Hilton on the 28th. His office is sending a letter to all
the Staples renovation list of usual suspects as I type.
Parker Coates and I hooked up finally,
the email address on his business card had a typo. He and Vagos will
meet us at Fairfield U. to film the UniSolar system they installed.
We're planning to catch Shays on
Sunday... Jon has been spreading the flyers... Staples teachers are
getting involved... We're on a roll.
Wednesday Feb 12th 2003
Click here:
http://www.remyc.com/stapleshs.html
I stopped at Town Hall today and shot a few pictures of the Staples 3D
model on display inside the Planning & Zoning office. They are
posted at the url above.
You can also read the text which Staples students will find when
discovering the page, which is linked from the solar section of the
Greenburbs website.
Last night Jon & I printed 500 flyers which are now finding their
way through the halls of Staples High.
I have also left some at the Nature Center, Pymander Bookshop, and
Toquet Hall.
Hopefully by this time next week, we will have made enough noise to
warrant a reconsideration of the Staples plan.
The P&Z opens their public hearings tomorrow in the Westport Town
Hall auditorium (Thursday) at 7:30PM.
I won't be able to make it. I'm attending the Director's View Film
Festival premiere (Daredevil) in SoNo which starts at 7PM. That's my one
and only opportunity to promote greenburbs.com to the local movie biz
set, and I don't want to miss it.
Francis, Ken, if you could get some footage of the P&Z meeting and
maybe get some comments from the town's people in attendance as to why
solar is so far removed from their consciousness?
Jon if you can get there, hand out some flyers, and try to relate to the
audience that the Staples students are not too pleased there are no
provisions for solar and green design in the project.
Sunday February 9th 2003
I just got a call from Francis last night... he
and Ken showed up five minutes after I left the science fair and got
some great footage. I also saw there were two big banners, one in the
hall, one in the cafeteria promoting a meeting for the students February
6th about the new building project... synchronicity? I picked up the
flyer. It was organized by the Student Assembly and Principal Dr. John
Brady gave the presentation. Here's his direct phone: 341-1210 and
email: jbrady@westport.k12.ct.us.You
can find all other faculty contacts on: http://www.stapleshigh.net/contact/index.html
This is the Staples website renovation page,
which has not been update since January of 2002!
http://www.stapleshigh.net/info/renovation.html.
I'm surprised to see that two CTSOS
postings are still up there... It's what they call a "grave"
site.
Saturday February 8th 2003
I got a partial list of the Staples Renovation
Committee members emailed to me by Jackie Fuchs. But there's only 7
names. The original list I got two years ago from the Westport Town Hall
in print, which was used for the Innovative Design DayLighting report
mailings, included 40 names, mailing address and phone numbers. But I
have no idea what I did with it. I gave John Rountree the list back
then. Maybe he still has a copy somewhere... So I will continue asking
for a complete and proper list.
The names I have so far are:
Yuly Aronson - 17 Poplar Plains Rd. 226-5893
Russ Blair - 58 Woodside Av. 227-6047
Allen Bomes - 9 Bayberry Lane 259-0916
Jay Keenan - One White Woods Lane 454-5647
Howard Maynard - 27 W. Parish Rd. 227-0064
Tammy Pincavage - 3 Nutcracker Lane 226-3215
Tim Wetmore - 14 Guyer Lane 454-5294
Dan Kail, chair - 105 North Av. 226-0944
I attended the Staples Science &
Engineering Fair on Saturday February 8th. I picked up half a dozen
booklets describing all the booth topics. I spotted half a dozen
environmentally related projects, one of them about tailpipe emission
reduction which I will publish on the Electrifying Times website as soon
as that student emails me the text file.
I found out about the Staples environmental
club. It's called Club Earth and the teacher/advisor is Mrs. Duffy. The
club leaders are Lisa Goodrich and Lindsay Warren, both seniors. Junior
Elyse Rothman, who had a robotic project at the fair, will be one of the
club leaders next year. Her mother and father expressed great distress
at the current state of the Staples renovation plan, and I suggested
they get in touch with John Rountree and ask him if they could take a
look at the PV system on his house.
Elyse also volunteers at the Nature Center, now
called Earth Space since they lost their website domain name to a porn
site company ( I'm not kidding...), and was asking about other groups in
the region monitoring river water quality. So I pointed her to the
Greenburbs website for a complete listing of all the Long Island Sound
related groups.
As soon as Jon has come up with a good flyer
design for the Greenburbs website, we will print up a whole batch (like
a 1000 probably) and make sure they get spread all over campus...
Another student had a miniature solar powered
fuel cell car project. I'll post his picture, with the car in his hands,
to the CTSOS list.
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The Thursday
December 27th edition of the Westport Minuteman newspaper, page 12,
published a seething critic of the Fuller design in its letter to the
editor section signed by half a dozen local green architects:
Abraham Rothenberg - 303
Bayberry Lane 226-7351 araarcht@aol.com
Lawrence Michaels - 8 Church St South 226-0046
Linda Zamelsky - 69 High Point Rd. 255-2933 (Fairfield)
Thomas
Lowrie - 4 Grist Mill Lane 259-6226
John Rountree - 130 Compo Road South 227-1766/7982 info@rountreearchitects.com
Steve Lesser - no address listed in phone
book 227-5025
Leo Cirino - 4 Viking Green 226-0034
Gene Seidman - 8 Greens Farms Hollow 226 5881
Full text of letter:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CTSOS/message/655
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Full contact info for AstroPower
photovoltaic company:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CTSOS/message/654
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