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By DCist Contributor Lauren Evans

Many of you have already visited the "Solar Village" since it opened its gates last Friday on the National Mall. Last weekend the long lines literally wrapped around each house entered into the 2007 Solar Decathlon, with people eager to get a tour from the students, alumni and faculty from each university competitor. The ten competitions have been judged all week, from Architecture last week to Engineering today, with individual winners announced for each leg...

When we saw this photo, we immediately thought of Legos — it looks like a bunch of bright yellow blocks and one of the window rectangles. We can almost imagine the little smiling yellow men lounging around inside, using one of those triangular computers or holding one of the cup pieces. Here's the EXIF data.

Morning, Washington. We hope you were out enjoying the fantastic weather, especially since the environment has been front and center in the news this weekend. As you must have heard, our former Vice President turned Global Warming Guru had to shove over the Oscar on his mantle to make space for half of a Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe after the news you were inspired to go check out the 20 amazing houses built on the...

We may write all the time about our developing neighborhoods, but one D.C. block is getting super-developed as we speak. Stroll down to the National Mall between today and October 20 and you'll find yourself in the middle of the Solar Village, where twenty universities have descended on the strip with their brilliant innovations costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, to compete in Solar Decathlon 2007. The entire event is open to the public with...

Good morning, Washington. This house is the entry by the University of Maryland in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, the student competition we told you about last week. The houses are viewable on the National Mall until October 16th. Today will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain and highs in the 60s.

Back in the day, Jimmy Carter matched his concern with global oil prices with solar panels perched upon the White House's roof. In today's world of ever-rising oil prices and expanding concerns over conservation, maybe President George W. Bush should head down to the Mall to get some ideas on how to best retrofit today's White House for what looks to be years of tight energy markets to come. It's the perfect time -- the...