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Passive Solar is Smart, Enjoyable & Efficient
Homes that Rock the Sun
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Farmhouse to Modern Passive Solar
Transition
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Strawbale Home
in one of the coldest places on Earth
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Quonset Hut
Retrofit
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Off-Grid Passive-Active Solar
House
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Off-Grid Modified Earthship
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Log Home
with Active and Passive Solar
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Solar Powered Radio Station
- Home with
Trombe Wall
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Zion NP
Visitor's Center
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Middlebury's 2011 Solar Decathlon
House
Solar Decathlon Competition Homes
See the
"Best of"
the 2011 Solar Decathlon competition homes.
Arranged by final overall standing.
University of Maryland
Purdue University
, Indiana
Victoria University of Wellington
, New Zealand
Middlebury College
, Vermont
Ohio State
So Cal Institute of Architecture and CalTech
University of Illinois
University of Tennessee
Massachusetts College of Art & Design / University of Mass
University of Calgary
, Canada
Florida International University
Appalachian State University
, North Carolina
Parsons NS Stevens
, NYC & NJ
Old Dominion / Hampton University
, Virginia
Tongji University
, China
Ghent University
, Belgium
City College of New York
Rutgers / New Jersey Institute of Technology
Univ. of S. Florida / Florida State U / U of Central Florida / U of Florida
The next
Solar Decathlon
takes place Oct. 3 - 13, 2013 in Irvine, CA.
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