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- LEDs Move Into Home Lighting Market
- Associated Press/AP Online (6/25/2007)
- EVERETT, Mass. - Joey Nicotera's fascination with multicolored light bulbs bordered on obsession when he was a teenager. "I'd be driving home from work at night, and I could see his room from five blocks away, with all the weird colors and flashing lights," recalls his father, Joe Nicotera Sr.Instead of painting light bulbs, Nicotera spent $5,000 to equip his bachelor pad with 54 fixtures containing light-emitting diodes, or LEDs - devices similar to computer semiconductors that convert electricity into light and stream it out of glass domes the size of matchstick heads.
- Electricity Goes Through Roof: Architect Fights Cost of Power Via Solar Panels and Sells the Leftovers
- Richmond Times-Dispatch (6/24/2007)
- Jun. 24--Local architect Patrick Farley is an advocate of environmentally friendly building design and a pioneer of sorts. He's the first to install solar panels at a Richmond residence and sell the electricity produced to Dominion Virginia Power. Farley installed the panels on the southern-tilted roof of a shed/studio he is building behind his home.
- Research With a Bright Future: GE Develops Flexible, Thin, Lightweight Sheets That Could Someday Replace Light Bulbs
- Times Union (6/23/2007)
- Jun. 23--NISKAYUNA -- The piece of plastic is clear, until Anil Duggal begins fiddling with some knobs as he applies electric current. Soon, the plastic is glowing blue and then red -- a bright little sheet of light -- as he moves the knobs on an attached power pack. Duggal, advanced technology leader in organic electronics at the GE Global Research Center, hopes these glowing sheets of light will some day replace less efficient incandescent and more expensive fluorescent bulbs.
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Robern Refreshes its Lighting Offering with the New Minimalist Reflxion Modular Lights
- ebuild (6/21/2007)
- Robern, a leader in lighting innovation and storage solutions, introduces the new M Series Reflexion modular lights inspired by modern architectural style. Reflexion lights use new T-5 fluorescent technology providing warm fluorescent lighting that is ideal for daily grooming tasks. The narrow fluorescent lamps have a low-profile design, are energy-efficient, long-lasting and easy to replace. They are also easy to clean and service.
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"Let's Edge It" Offers Solar Powered Lighting In Plastic Brick Edging
- ebuild (6/21/2007)
- Edging and lighting yards, gardens and walkways is now literally a snap for homeowners nationally. The new no-tools-required "Let's Edge It" is a uniquely simple product that provides edging and lighting in one. The "Let's Edge It" kit is a set of realistic plastic bricks with solar-powered lights built right into the bricks - which means no confusing electrical wiring is needed. Swivel action connectors allow straight or curved installation to encircle a flowerbed, tree or follow a curved pathway. "Let's Edge It" sports unique built-in spikes on the bottom of the bricks that hold them in place. Installation requires no digging, no mortar and no heavy lifting.
- Personal Power -- An Increasing Number of Homeowners Are Buying Solar Panels, Going 'Off Grid'
- Commercial Appeal, The (6/20/2007)
- LAKE BILLY CHINOOK, Ore. - Before power lines, homesteaders had no choice. Owners of about 250 homes in the Three Rivers community near this central Oregon lake are far from homesteading or camping out. But they are among a growing number of Americans who shun power lines, choosing to live "off the grid," without commercial power.
- U.S. Market for Kitchen and Bath Fittings and Fixtures to Top $16 Billion By 2010!
- U.S. Newswire (6/19/2007)
- NEW YORK, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a slight downturn in 2002, the market for kitchen and bath fittings and fixtures has maintained a steady 5% growth rate which should continue well into the next decade as the U.S. supply value is projected to surpass $16 billion by 2010, according to Kitchen and Bath Fixtures and Fittings in the U.S., a report from market research publisher SBI, a division of MarketResearch.com. SBI expects imports to continue playing a dominant role in the market's growth, reaching $4 billion by 2010. "The size of bathrooms and kitchens are getting bigger, with bathrooms being seen as luxurious retreats," notes Tatjana Meerman, Managing Editor of SBI.
- They Live Off the Grid
- Arizona Daily Star (6/18/2007)
- FOCUS ON TUCSON: ALTERNATIVE ENERGYThe glimmer of stars gradually gives way to a few scattered lights as the four-mile dirt road turns to pavement. Then it's another 25 or so miles before the stars have all but disappeared, and the lights of Tucson dominate.
- Eco-Friendly Homesellers Paying a Price ; Energy-Efficient Homes That Depart From Traditional Maine Styles Are Meeting Weak Demand From Homebuyers.
- Portland Press Herald (6/17/2007)
- An affordable home warmed by the sun. That should be an easy sell these days, but Win Reed has learned otherwise.A broker at CHR Realty in Bath, Reed listed an energy-efficient, three-bedroom house in rural Richmond last March.
- THOROUGHLY Modern ; New Mexico Houses With Clean, Uncluttered Lines Look Good in the Desert
- Albuquerque Journal (6/17/2007)
- Contemporary is the new word in home design, with a purely modern sensibility. "People are rethinking their lifestyles and realizing that they can do away with superfluous decoration and things that are associated with so-called traditional architecture and get something that better fits how they live," said Alexander Dzurec, principal of Autotroph, a Santa Fe architecture, planning and sustainable design consulting firm. Steel mesh and cobblestone columns at the Dwell Inc. house in Albuquerque's High Desert announce Jennifer Lopez's amalgamation of organic and minimalist design.
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