The Atlantic City Convention Center is planning to build the largest solar paneled roof in the United States. The center is hiring PEPCO Energy Services of Arlington, VA to install solar on 290,000 square feet of its roof. Under the arrangement, PEPCO will pay to install the panels and the Convention Center will then buy the electricity back from PEPCO.

The center says the panels will supply 25% of its electricity needs and will save it aproximately $4.4 Million over the course of the twenty year contract with PEPCO. The project will create 2.36 megawatts of energy each day, enough to fill the electricity needs of 280 homes, making it the largest solar project installed on a single roof in the entire country.

Read the rest of this entry »

The TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup is a compilation of the week’s most notable stories from our entertainment-meets-social-action blogging network. Want to learn our top eco-kinky tips for ‘greening up’ your sex life? How about the top 10 ways to take action against AIDS?  Check out some of our most popular stories of the week, as well as a few TakePart blogger favorites!

Katie:

Annie Lennox & Top 10 Ways to Take Action Against AIDS

Somewhere Over the Rainbow: American Idol & Yip Harburg

* * *
Nicole:

Top 10 Ways to ‘Green Up’ Your Sex Life

Top 10 Global Warming Myths Debunked

* * *
Giulia:

Mortified Makes Movies

What a Bunch of Boobs

* * *
Gina:

Top 10 Immigration Films

Boarding Gate’s Empty Adventure of Capitalism

* * *
Say Hello to Our Guest Bloggers!

Jon Popham wrote:

Young At Heart Hits the Silver Screen

Death and the River

Andy Kondrat wrote:

Top 5 Things You’ll Love About Planet Green

Leonardo DiCaprio Does Everything For the Environment, Ever

These top 10 ways to ‘green up’ your sex life show that even do-gooders are allowed to be bad in the bedroom without damaging their health or the environment. You try to buy fair trade and organic when you can, you take the subway instead of cabs, and you almost always say no to plastic bags. You work, live and play with a better world in mind - don’t let the magic stop when you’re beneath the sheets. Forget the carcinogenic lubricants and non-biodegradable toys topping off our landfills. You and your partner(s) can enjoy a fabulously fun AND healthy romp with this eco-kinky arrangement below. Be sure to leave a comment if there’s anything you’d like us to add!

1) Sustainably Sexy Lingerie

Flaunt your sexy self and your concern for the environment in these fairly-traded and organic fabric lingerie sets from Adili. If you’re in the market for something a little more risque, Enamore offers some very cute vintage-inspired lingerie made from natural and organic fibers like hemp and cotton, as well as recycled vintage materials.

Read the rest of this entry »

Ken Loach’s latest film, It’s a Free World premiered in Brooklyn last week and is now available On Demand on IFC’s Festival Direct. The director takes us from the world of The Wind That Shakes the Barley to a different time and place, present day London, to explore the world of foreign labor - legal and illegal.

Our companion on this journey is Angie (Kierston Wareing) a single mom who is trying to overcome being wrongly fired by a recruitment agency. The recruiting she had been doing was of workers from Eastern Europe to crappy, low paying jobs in London. Upon her termination Angie decides she can run her own recruiting business and after convincing her housemate Rose to help her, Angie is out on a motorbike trying to draw up contracts with local factories. Most of the men she tries to get deals with warn her of the dark side of this world, but as we get to know Angie, we realize that a warning could never stop her.

Read the rest of this entry »