Portsmouth's new wind turbine will be featured on the debut of Planet Forward, an innovative citizen media project sponsored by PBS, set to air on Wednesday, April 15. Roger Williams University prof Michael Scully led a team of students producing video packages for the Web site and show (their work was featured in a recent ProJo story) and one of the projects, a feature on the Portsmouth turbine, was selected from the hundreds of submissions.

According to a statement sent to local media, Portsmouth Economic Development Committee (EDC) chair Rich Talipsky travelled to Washington, D.C. recently to take part in a panel discussion for the PBS show with the student, Kyle Toomey, journalist Frank Sesno and Carol Browner, President Obama’s Special Assistant for Energy and Climate Change. The show’s taping was done in front of a live audience at the Jack Morton Theatre at George Washington University.

I know what I'm going to be doing next Wednesday night. Celebrating Portsmouth's accomplishment, the hard work of the EDC, and the vision of the voters of our town who approved the bond for the turbine. Yay, us.

Resources:
Check out the Planet Forward site and Kyle Toomey's video about Portsmouth's wind turbine.

Portsmouth EDC Sustainable Energy site