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In neighborhoods all across the country, the Energy Department's Better Buildings Neighborhood Program is helping families and business owners make energy efficiency upgrades that are saving them money and improving the comfort of our buildings. <a href="/node/625681">Learn more</a> about the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program.

In neighborhoods all across the country, the Energy Department's Better Buildings Neighborhood Program is helping families and business owners make energy efficiency upgrades that are saving them money and improving the comfort of our buildings. Learn more about the Better Buildings Neighborhood Program.

Thinking Outside the (Tool) Box with the Building America Solution Center
The Energy Department's new Building America Solution Center provides building professionals with fast, free and reliable building science and efficiency knowledge. | Photo courtesy of the Energy Department.

The Energy Department launches a new online tool that provides building professionals with fast, free and reliable building science and efficiency knowledge when and wherever they need it.

Spinning with the Sun
Patrick Yarn Mills, located in Kings Mountain North Carolina, installed a 105-kilowatt rooftop solar system with the help of the Energy Department's State Energy Program. | Photo courtesy of the NC Energy Office.

Learn how a North Carolina yarn manufacturer is using solar power to reduce its energy costs.

Students Develop Innovative Solutions for Energy Efficient Buildings
Student teams present their ideas for improving commercial building efficiency before a panel of commercial real estate and energy experts. | Photo courtesy of Jessie Knapstein, the Energy Department.

As part of the second annual Better Buildings Case Competition, some of the country's brightest young minds presented their ideas on ways to cut energy waste and improve commercial building efficiency.

Palm Beach County Sees Energy-Smart Economic Growth
Smart for Life received a loan from Palm Beach County’s revolving loan fund program to expand its production facility and boost its overall energy efficiency. | Photo courtesy of Craig Stephens, Palm Beach County.

A Florida community focuses on energy efficiency to encourage economic growth.

Solar Decathlon at Home in the D.C. Community
One of the new homeowners, Layika Culley, and her family cut the ribbon to her new ultra-efficient home in the historic Deanwood neighborhood. For more photos of the Empowerhouse ribbon cutting, <a href="/node/580963">view our photo gallery</a>. | Photo courtesy of Sarah Gerrity, Energy Department.

Celebrating the completion of the Empowerhouse Solar Decathlon team's demonstration house into a permanent, two-family home in the District's Ward 7.