View MYD's photo gallery from Irvine's Great Park for the 2013 Solar Decathlon, where 20 student-built projects compete in a series of contests in order to determine overall livability, efficiency and affordability of each design.
While a few of our favorites took top honors, all the teams demonstrated innovation and creativity in their approach to green building and design...
For the first time since its inception in 2002, the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon is being held at a location other than the mall in Washington D.C., and we're looking forward to welcoming the biennial event to the West Coast this fall.
Read MoreWe're welcoming the start of the fall season with a photo of yesterday's setting sun, as the last rays of summer light filter through the west-facing windows.
Read MoreA few weeks back, we wrote about the preliminary stages of MYD's photovoltaic installation in Laguna Beach with Revco Solar. It has since been inspected and approved by the City, and last week we received the go-ahead from Southern California Edison to turn on the system and saw results almost instantaneously.
As a follow up to last week's post on The Ecology Center's book, Backyard Skills: A D.I.Y. Handbook, we're officially sharing our favorite images of this project, taken after the project's completion in the fall of last year.
