The Solar Decathlon teams have been nominated for a TreeHugger’s  Readers’ Choice Award—and they need your vote to win.

TreeHugger, part of Discovery’s Planet Green initiative, is asking its readers to vote for “the people, ideas, projects, and memes that are pushing green into the mainstream” as part of its Readers’ Choice Awards Best of Green 2011. The Solar Decathlon teams have been nominated as a group in the Design and Architecture category.

Please cast your vote for the Solar Decathlon teams as Best Student Architecture Work today. Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 1, 2011.

Amy Vaughn is the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Web coordinator.

Sam Champion films a Just One Thing segment inside Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus. Credit: Kelly Shimoda/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon

Virginia Tech’s U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2009 entry, Lumenhaus, traveled to New York’s Times Square this week, where it wowed passersby and wooed audiences on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Watch a video clip of “Good Morning America” weather anchor Sam Champion interviewing Virginia Tech team member Chip Clark, or see additional photos of Lumenhaus in Times Square on Flickr.

The next stop on the house’s tour will be Madrid, Spain, to compete in Solar Decathlon Europe this June.