Help put the US Department of Energy's 2011 Solar Decathlon back on the National Mall
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Feb 17th, 2011Someone from Valley Springs, CA writes:
I wish we would subsidize solar with the same desire we do oil companies! Take care of our home first. -
Feb 17th, 2011Someone from Mc Lean, VA signed.
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Feb 17th, 2011Someone from Boone, NC writes:
If the mall can be used to host the likes of Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart, pundits who rile up the populace without a clear purpose, then it is absurd to think that the same patch of grass cannot be used to support and learn about practices that will inevitably lead to not only "winning the future" but ensure that foreign oil does not become the demise of the United States.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 17th, 2011Someone from Boone, NC signed.
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Feb 16th, 2011Someone from Arlington, VA signed.
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Feb 16th, 2011Someone from West Hartford, CT writes:
There is no better use of this public space. I pay your taxes, please change this wrong decision, Secy CHU!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from Concord, NC signed.
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Feb 16th, 2011Someone from Boone, NC writes:
PLEASE help out! These students have worked so hard on this competition project.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from New York, NY signed.
Feb 16th, 2011Someone from Acton, MA signed.
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Feb 16th, 2011Someone from Boone, NC writes:
Renewable energy and home efficiency represent two of the leading edge initiatives in United States. We should support this endeavor to provide American jobs, to clean up our environment, and to ease taxpayer burdens. We should be displaying those efforts prominently and promoting them vigorously, not hiding and ignoring them.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from Roslindale, MA signed.
Feb 16th, 2011Someone from Germantown, MD writes:
The Solar Decathlon allows the general public to see the newest ways of using solar energy, which is good for the home owner who wants to bring energy saving ideas to his home. The Mall, with easy metro access, is a perfect location to display solar-powerd homes.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from Washington, DC signed.
Feb 16th, 2011Someone from East Stroudsburg, PA writes:
If the lawns are the concern, take advantage of the offer by the landscape architecture students and faculty to come up with some solutions. 2011 is too late to tell folks it is to be somewhere else.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from Southampton, NY signed.
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Feb 16th, 2011Someone from Indianapolis, IN writes:
Pretty sure these kids built their houses over the past two years being under the impression they would be on the Mall. Pretty sure they probably went around raising money by telling companies their products would be on the National Mall. Pretty sure the "grass" on the National Mall was never alive to begin with. As a student who has participated in the past, if this news was dropped on me, I would have quit. Without the Mall, there is no point.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from Philadelphia, PA signed.
Feb 16th, 2011Someone from Rancho Palos Verdes, CA signed.
Feb 16th, 2011Someone from Brooklyn, NY writes:
This move clearly indicates less than full support of efforts to encourage energy conservation.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from Atlanta, GA signed.
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Feb 16th, 2011Someone from Bradenton, FL writes:
My firm, HOK, is a sponsor of the team from Massachusetts. As Architects and Engineers who are deeply involved with issues of sustainability, I find this development deeply troubling. We need to inspire the next generation to solve these problems, not discourage them. This decision sends a clear signal that energy efficiency is not an issue of national importance at exactly the moment it should be.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from Alexandria, VA writes:
This is one of the most interesting events held on the Mall. My parents and I discovered it by accident one of the first summers I lived in the DC area and we just LOVE it! It can't be held anywhere else in the DC area and get the same kind of traffic and interest. Rework the competition to include plans for the competing schools to repair their section of the Mall and leave it better than they found it. Especially since we all know Park Service talks a good game about repairing the Mall but never seems to have the funds.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from Manhattan, KS writes:
We're not competing this time, but we did in a previous competition, and it's too late for teams to redesign now. Leave the competition on the Mall and save rethinking for the 2013 competition, if you must relocate at all!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 16th, 2011Someone from Germantown, MD writes:
Renewable energy and home efficiency represent two of the greatest industries that the U.S. can promote, to provide American jobs, to clean up our environment, and to ease taxpayer burdens. We should be displaying those efforts prominently and promoting them vigorously, not hiding and ignoring them!REPORT COMMENTS
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