[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9VD6MdEt0U]In 1979, Jimmy Carter, in a forward-looking move, installed solar panels in the roof of the White House. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the Reagan presidency. In 1991, Unity College, an environmentally centered college in Maine acquired the panels and later installed them on their cafeteria.
In “A Road not Taken”, swiss artists Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller travel back in time and, following the route the panels took, interview those involved in the solar panel decisions, in the oil crisis of the time, and in the way that that moment presaged our own era. The documentary essay is still in work and will be about 70 minutes long.
– from huffingtonpost. 27 Jan 2009
Good to see that people still know what they are talking about. So much BS around these days!