The 2007 BP Solar Decathlon

As you know, we love everything green, and have taken small steps to living a greener lifestyle. These have been small changes around the house like recycling more, and using energy efficient light bulbs. This has started our interest in building a home completely off the grid in a small community in Colorado that is looking to be the first completely green city in America. Now if that development job comes through with Google, we can start working towards our goals.

In regards to this topic The BP Solar Decathlon is coming up in a couple days. They didn’t have it last year, but I did follow their progress the year before, and it was really neat to watch. Every two years 20 university teams from around the world design, build and operate livable, enery-efficient, and completely solar-powered houses. This year one of the main sponsors in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy is BP, the only energy company that was sponsored this type of event.

One of the goals of the Solar Decathlon is to show the world that we can all use solar power in our homes, and BP is working to make solar energy a more affordable source of energy in our homes and businesses. Solar power is going to be one of the main sources of energy really soon, and it’s nice to see an energy company like BP getting behind this movement and making it happen for us, and the earth.

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