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- FIFA World Cup Qatar will be lit by smart solar leaf lights Fri, 18 Nov 22, 4:30amDecorative off-grid solar street lights from the U.S. were installed as part of the sustainable agenda for hosting the World Cup in Qatar. Near the end of 2022, the country will be hosting the popular event and created a...
- Dutch town helps out rare bat species by installing "bat-friendly" streetlights Fri, 8 Jun 18, 6:00amStreet lighting can impact bats' feeding patterns and internal compasses, as well as the activity of their insect prey, but a town in the Netherlands is taking steps to help the bats out...
- Philips to install LED streetlights in Poland for a 70 percent energy savings Tue, 24 Mar 15, 1:55amPhilips Lighting has announced that they have been selected to conduct a massive overhaul of over 5,000 streetlights in Poland's historic "floating garden" city of Szczecin...
- Spain reveals plans for first ever public streetlight system powered by wind and sun Thu, 29 Jan 15, 6:30amSpain will be home to the first public lighting system to be powered exclusively by solar and wind energy. Researcher Ramon Bargalló is the man behind the development, and he worked alongside the company Eolgreen to design...
- UGE’s New Hybrid Sanya Streetlight Goes Off-Grid For Big Savings Thu, 6 Sep 12, 12:50amUrban Green Energy (UGE) today announced their newest alternative to power hungry outdoor lighting: the Sanya Streetlamp [pdf] is a standalone, off-grid street light that uses solar power, wind energy, or a combination of...
- Friday Funny – facts don’t matter to dumpster diving journalist Fox Van Allen Sat, 4 Aug 12, 2:14amFrom Senator Inhofe’s office, more on the story about the melting street lamps in Oklahoma and follow up press release: =========================================================== Yesterday Inhofe revealed that a dumpster...
- The Holonic Streetlamp is an Off-Grid Streetlight that’s Powered by the Sun and Wind Fri, 15 Jun 12, 1:00amStreetlights are fixture of cities and towns across the world — they literally guide us through the night. But even new LED streetlights require a large amount of energy, because they run all night long, 365 days per...
- Oh the Entomology! Light pollution “radically altered” environment – making more bugs, more bug predators Wed, 23 May 12, 9:45pmFrom the University of Exeter , some buggy science. Next thing you know, PETA will be campaigning to have us shut off street lighting to “save the insects”. I’m surprised it has taken them this long to figure...
- Oh the Entomology! Light pollution “radically altered” evironment – making more bugs, more bug predators Wed, 23 May 12, 9:45pmFrom the University of Exeter , some buggy science. Next thing you know, PETA will be campaigning to have us shut off street lighting to “save the insects”. I’m surprised it has taken them this long to figure...
- Archilede LED Street Lamps Cut Energy Use by 40% Wed, 1 Sep 10, 5:45amItaly’s leading manufacturer of high-end lighting, iGuzzini illuminazione, has just announced its new Archilede LED street-lighting system for the U.S. market. The innovative LED lighting system saves more than 40%...
- Greenspotlight: Hanging Streetlight Planters Appear in the Netherlands Thu, 7 Jan 10, 5:00pmPhoto Credit: Ernie Buts Some of design’s most satisfying moments occur when two seemingly unrelated objects are married effectively into something that is much more than the sum of its parts...