Comments on: What’s Happened To Edward Norton’s Solar Neighbors Program?

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:36:56 +0000

I found a press release on the BP site dated Feb 11 2008 regarding the St. George Hotel in downtown Los Angeles: “the first solar electric system installation for a low-income, multiunit building on the West Coast. Celebrating another milestone of the BP Solar Neighbors Program” … does that count?
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9019567&contentId=7040857

By: Doris

Doris — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:50:04 +0000

I wondered about this too a while back. Gettiing a celebrity’s attention and interest in a good cause is the easy part. Getting them to commit — ha, that’s more like a problem beyond the greenzone. The org might take lessons from the successes of, say, Habitat for Humanity, and boast the participation of your everyday neighbors – not the ones separated from reality by acres of land and well-guarded gates.

By: danilani

danilani — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:07:44 +0000

Check in with Heather Rogers, author of “Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage”. She just started a new book with, this time working with the same literary agent of Al Gore’s “Incovenient Truth”. Set to launch next year, it’s focusing on the “green hype”: the smoke and mirrors behind going green, as opposed to the actual work that is really being done. I”m sure that she’s included info on this solar initiative, given that BP spends some 98% of it’s ad spend on it’s “green” initiatives, despite the fact that alternative fuels generate less than 5% of the company’s total revenue…

By: rebecca

rebecca — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:10:23 +0000

Thank you for bringing this up! This has been something that has bothered me from the start. And people still talk about it as if it’s current information. Hopefully the program is still active.