TerraSol: An Affordable Solar & Geothermal Powered Community in Salt Lake City

Solar-Powered Italian Home Uses Light Wells to Illuminate Its Interiors

Team Florida’s Solar Decathlon FLeX House Harnesses Passive Design to Keep its Cool in Hot Climates

Solar-Powered Berkeley Courtyard House is Cooled by Natural Breezeways

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Affordable Re_Home is Prepped for Natural Disaster Recovery

7 Amazing Sun-Powered Homes in the 2011 Solar Decathlon!

University of Tennessee’s Living Light Solar Decathlon Home is Inspired By Appalachian Cantilevered Barns

Team Tidewater’s Solar Decathlon Unit 6 is an Efficient Prototype for a Multi-Family Residence

Solar Decathlon: Empowerhouse Breaks Ground in D.C.’s Deanwood Neighborhood

Rejoice! Solar Decathlon Will Be Held in Washington DC After All – But Shuffled Off to a Corner

The Solar Decathlon, a rigorous, annual competition where students design and build green, solar-powered homes is now back in Washington…but not in its original, prominent location. Many were

2011 Solar Decathlon Home Will End Up In D.C. Community

At the end of the US Solar Decathlon competition next year, one of the entries will move on to its final home in the Deanwood neighborhood of Washington D.C. The Empowerhouse is a net-zero home designed

Heliotrope: The World’s First Energy Positive Solar Home

Look, up in the sky — it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the Heliotrope! The brainchild of Architect Ralph Disch, this rotating solar home was the seed for the extraordinary Sonnenschiff Solar

Geometric Solar Home Cuts Energy Usage in Half

This modern home built in Wisconsin by designer Shane Black uses solar thermal panels to heat a bed of sand beneath the house, keeping the interior temperature comfortable throughout the year. Combined

German IKAROS House Takes the Lead at Solar Decathlon!

If you’ve been reading Inhabitat, you know we’ve been following the European Solar Decathlon as intensely as much of the world is following the World Cup right now. With just one day left

Sun-Powered Armadillo Box House Closes in on Solar Decathlon Prize

Stuttgart University’s Shimmering Solar Decathlon Home+

All of the homes in this year’s Solar Decathlon Europe utilize advanced building technologies and green strategies to optimize their energy use — this is especially evident in the home+ by

Germany Unveils Super Efficient IKAROS Solar Decathlon House

This past weekend marked the launch of the European Solar Decathlon in Madrid, and with the competition halfway through one of our favorite solar-powered residences is the IKAROS House by the University

National Solar Homes Tour Kicks Off This Weekend!

If you’re looking for something to do this Saturday, may we suggest checking out the amazing Solar Homes Tour, which will be happening this weekend in many cities around the country? The American