Super Solar Schools

Tired of hilarity, cool time-lapse views, and Red Sox related videos we’re bringing you this rather informative clip about solar energy today. Menino just released the city’s budget for the next year, it’s higher than last year and not surprisingly there are some critics of what is included and excluded. Bostonist is just curious about the solar powered garbage cans (at $4,200 a pop they’ve got to be cool). We hope that they’ll be safe compactors of garbage and eventually pay for themselves. Higher fuel costs are noted as one of the largest increases in the budget. Why not put more into solar power? This video captures Sajed Kamal, of the Solar Fenway Committee in a discussion of how the sun can provide more power than fossil fuels. He’s followed by Menino at the Celebrate Solar on Boston Public Schools event held about a week ago. Everyone seems to want to decrease our reliance on foreign oil, the schools in Boston might just be a brilliant place to start the movement. All this and it’s much easier to talk about solar power on a day when the rays of light will warm us up to near 70 degrees and help us get over our wintertime S.A.D.