Hopefully, we humans have learned our lesson, limited fossil fuel and electricity, and the time has come to change our lifestyles and the way we think, how we take things for granted. The time has come to bring radical changes in our daily lives, and realize that doing the little things make a difference. Every person in the world can contribute in their own way towards the environment.

By using electric cars, and equipment powered by solar energy, wave energy, wind power, etc for small household things also make a big difference. Spark, a solar powered table night lamp, is a tool to help homeowners become more aware of energy consumption and become a guide in achieving a sustainable lifestyle.

Designer: Beverly NG

Sunrise Solar Corp has agreed to sell a new construction brick that integrates solar technologies into conventional construction materials. Potential applications include building lighting, decorative lighting, safety lights and rural airfields.

The Solar Light Brick is able to capture sunlight and convert it into energy to power an embedded light without the need to connect to the electricity grid. This innovative technology includes advanced solar cells, energy storage devices and crystal lighting system that surrounds the energy module in a square or rectangle.

Embedded solar cells produce electricity when the sun is shining and keep it in storage devices. Lights are automatically activated after dark. Solar brick can be designed to light in several color.

New Zealand-based company 2C sells a variety of solar light cap that charged during the day to give light at the night. All the collected energy, light-emitting technology lies in the curved part of semi-flexible pre-bent beak of the cap including solar panels and the NiMH batteries used to store them.

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Two LEDs on the part of light Solar Light Cap project in the lower corner up to six meters in front of the wearer, so you wont blind person anyone you look at. Angling cap upward extending the range, saying 2C light can penetrate up to 10 meters (32 feet). Single button, also located at the bottom part, controls all lighting functions. One press will turn on or turn off the lights, while the double-click cycles through different modes including SOS mode and blinking mode. Press and hold buttons control the dimming of the LED.

Cap initially takes about three days from the daylight to achieve full charge, after which one day should be sufficient. A full charge will provide five hours of use on full beam or 36 hours on low beam. A special mode that turns off the lid before the battery completely drains ensure there is always something in reserve to provide short bursts of light with each press the power button until finally discharged.

The Solar Light Cap is available in many styles and colors, prices start from $ 39.90 to $ 44.90.

Visit 2C Solar Light Cap site for further information.

Total electricity consumed by street lights were installed to keep the highway safe after dark is very surprising. To reduce the load on the grid, industrial designers have often thought of potential systems that use renewable solar energy. In addition, because the street lights installed in the open, they can easily harvest solar energy for lighting at night.

Natalia Romanova, an industrial designer has come up with a concept Self Sufficient Street Light that captures renewable solar energy during the day to charge the onboard battery. Street lights should be made from metal with concrete base. Flexible solar modules generate electricity for two LED-panels. The designer believes that the lamp will produce more energy than necessary, with all surplus energy being stored to recharge EVs.

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Solar Pebble designed by Adam Robinson for Plus Minus Solar is a solar powered lamp that targeted for use in rural Africa, as innovative humanitarian products, and at home in England as a perfect gift for outdoors, camping and festival enthusiasts. The LED of Solar Pebble powered by batteries charged from the sun through a small solar panel. It can also charge cell phones and other devices. The shifting ratchet handle makes the product possible to be carried and tilted when standing or suspended.

Ties Carlier has designed a Moof bike, which replaced the LED lights with solar-powered bike lamp. Most of us would give anything to ride a bike for the environment sake. But green riding a bike as possible, if the experience is not pleasant enough, or if it proved to be a burden, most will avoid the use of bicycles what possible environmental benefits.

Single-speed bike offers leather seats and handles in addition to an aluminum frame that contains two solar powered lights (one in front, and one in back).

Bike will set you back $ 500, and will be available from Areaware.

Solar Decoration Floating Ball Light may seem quite simple but can make our lakes or rivers more beautiful.

Ball-shaped LED light (size 136 x 110 mm) can float on water and what makes us interested is the use of the sun as a source of energy.

This lamp can last up to 12 hours and has a light color that change automatically.

Corona is the solar-powered lighting system. This can be watched on the ground, attached to the wall, or just resting on the table. Solar voltaic cell of Corona solar light convert sunlight into energy during the day, and the LED automatically begins to glow when the sun sets. This solar powered outdoor light uses no glue or fasteners, making it easy to disassemble for recycling.

Designer: Kohatsu Shane

Manufacturer : Corona

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This tent comes with solar panels and integrated, interior LED lights. You can also use solar panels to charge the battery independently. That’s about 4-6 hours of direct light to yield 2-4 hours tent light. The 7″ (18 cm) solar panel placed on the hub of tents and clicked into place. Fly is then placed on a solar panel & tent, and sun will charge the panel through the clear PVC window at the top of the fly. Unfortunately, like most tents, this one is made from petroleum-based materials (nylon and PVC). Certainly there is a substitute that can be used out there! Tent comes as a four-person and six-person version, and the price is $ 180 (CAD) and $ 220 (CAD) each. For more information, visit Canadian Tire site. [Via]

This is no longer rare to see solar street lights. City, town and village managers, in their endless search to cut costs and increase efficiency, have found that solar powered street lighting do a better job than the conventional grid-powered lighting, at a fraction of the price. There are several reasons why the solar is better when it comes to street lighting and this can be summarized as capital costs, operating costs, reliability and the environment.

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