Last week was a watershed moment for the Massachusetts solar market. Governor Deval Patrick joined Greenfield, MA Mayor William Martin and Paul Curran, Executive Vice President of Axio Power, in signing two contracts for the Greenfield Solar Farm - a 2 megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) project on Greenfield's capped landfill. Greenfield Community Television published a video of the event, which is available on their WEBSITE.
I am interning with AXIO POWER for the summer to assist with their solar projects in the Northeastern markets, with a specific focus on Massachusetts. Prior to the announcement of the Greenfield Solar Farm, the only significant, larger-scale solar developments in Massachusetts were completed by the regulated utilities, especially National Grid. Other commercial and residential projects have…
At Yale, I am a joint masters student between the schools of Forestry and Public Health interested in the relationships between ecology, environmental health, and human health outcomes. My internship, as groundwork for the thesis that I will write next year, hastaken me to Patillas, Puerto Rico. In Patillas, the Center for Disease Control Dengue Branch has ongoing research on the mosquitoes that transmit the dengue viruses. The story of dengue, how it has emerged and how it is propagated as an urban disease, provides a powerful illustration of how many of the feats of modernization can lead to the spread of disease.
In collaboration with the dengue branch’s research in Patillas, I am working to incorporate the utilities of remote…
