Plan a comfortable, energy-efficient home that saves you money on heating and cooling with passive solar house plans and design basics.

The Energy Crowd Web site has collectively designed a passive solar system less than a month after announcing plans to reduce the cost of home heating by using technology that captures and ...

This suburban home in Perth's northern suburb of Yokine doesn't look much different from others on the street, but it was built in 1955 using solar design principles that have stood the test of time.