Academe, March 1st, 2003
The Mall in Washington, D.C., glittered in the unexpected Indian summer heat on the fall afternoon of my second visit to the site of the Solar Decathlon. I had seen a Washington Post piece on the construction of energy-saving houses under this U.S. Department of Energy program, and the fact that they were designed and built by student-faculty teams from fourteen competing universities lured me out. Of course, I was interested in the faculty's participation, but I was there for other reasons: I worry about global warming. I love gadgetry. And my scholarly work has centered on material culture. ...
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