Solar Decathlon

Meet the decathletes! Twenty teams of college students &mdash budding engineers, designers, architects, and clean-technology fans &mdash compete to build the coolest solar-powered house. Tour their projects, read about the energy-efficient products they used, and learn more about green living.

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Texas A&M University

Solar growth

The Aggies call their project groHOME, and it focuses on sustainability, open source systems, disaster relief, and technological growth.

Green Building Blocks