The University of Minnesota’s Solar Decathlon team‘s handout to visitors to the DOE Solar Decathlon, which opens Thursday on the Mall in Washington, DC, (which I had a chance to visit earlier today) is subtitled “A New Tradition”. Their ICON Solar House hopefully is just that, a representation and sign of “a new tradition” that […]
Making an ICON-ic statement about a better tomorrow?
October 7th, 2009 · 8 Comments
Tags: eco-friendly · Energy · energy cool · solar · solar decathlon · Solar Energy
Who is Creigh Deeds Speaking To? And, what is he saying?
October 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Creigh Deeds’ new ad begins “Does Bob McDonnell really stand with us?” With his misogynist and regressive views, as detailed in his Liberty University thesis or McDonnell’s half-baked and truthiness-laden concepts to raid educational funds to pour concrete in an insufficient answers to Virginia’s transportation challenges to, well, many of McDonnell’s views and “proposals”, it […]
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An Illuminating Vision for Pavilion Living: VT’s Lumenhaus
October 7th, 2009 · 8 Comments
Imagine the environmentally conscious socialite and their new cottage at the Hamptons. That is the feel that Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus gives in their, quite simply, luminous website and presentation of their entry into the DOE Solar Decathlon, which opens Thursday on the Mall in Washington, DC, and which I had a chance to visit earlier […]
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