{"114741":{"#nid":"114741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Thoreau Goes Solar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMembers of Hugh Crawford\u0027s \u0022Environmentalism and Ecocriticism\u0022 class in LCC built three playhouses last fall as part of a research project on literary\u0026nbsp;nature writers. This semester one of those houses is on display in\u0026nbsp;Clough Commons in anticipation of Bernd Heinrich\u0027s March 7th Karlovitz Lecture. The other two have gone solar.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA team of College of Architecture students working with Tristan al Hadad, Russell Gentry, and Joseph Goodman (from GTRI) are designing innovative mounts and connections for residential photovoltaic panel installation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey recently mounted their first designs on the Thoreau and Beston houses still on display in front of the Architecture Building and are producing at peak 1 kilowatt. Now they just have to figure out what Thoreau would have done if he had electricity.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe solar panel research is sponsored by the Department of Energy.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELast fall, members of Hugh Crawford\u0027s \u0022Environmentalism and Ecocriticism\u0022 class built three playhouses as part of a research project on the nature writers they were studying. This semester two of them have gone solar.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2012-03-06 11:18:05","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:48","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"114701":{"id":"114701","type":"image","title":"Playhouse solar panels","body":null,"created":"1449178241","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:41","changed":"1475894733","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:33","alt":"Playhouse solar panels","file":{"fid":"194217","name":"crawford_solar.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_solar_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_solar_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":57785,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/crawford_solar_0.jpg?itok=X8xj8tdA"}},"114721":{"id":"114721","type":"image","title":"Solar panel playhouse in Clough","body":null,"created":"1449178241","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:41","changed":"1475894733","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:33","alt":"Solar panel playhouse in Clough","file":{"fid":"194218","name":"crawford_clough.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_clough_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/crawford_clough_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":36478,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/crawford_clough_0.jpg?itok=xlZfyRS4"}}},"media_ids":["114701","114721"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/crawford","title":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/crawford"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-and-events\/story?id=98841","title":"Students Build Author Structures on Campus"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8755","name":"Hugh Crawford"},{"id":"26231","name":"playhouse"},{"id":"26221","name":"Thoreau Goes Solar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-1720\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}