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What lights your pathway? Solar path lights will illuminate your garden path and create a unique mood in your garden at night. Solar path lights will also bring character to your garden during daylight hours.
Try to position your solar lights in a sunny place to get the most benefit from the sun. Some of the models are durable enough to be installed directly into pavement. The fixtures turn on and off automatically for your safety and convenience.

Solar Path Lights.

Featured Stone Cylinder Solar Post Lights have an appealing stucco-like texture. Clear ribbed light casing causes light to scatter in an intriguing pattern. Looks great on outdoor table top, patio or your fence. For a more elegant look, place these post solar lights around your driveway. Ground fastener and stake are included for quick and easy installation.
See our video below demonstrating how easy it is to install Solar Path Lights.

Read more about this Solar Path Light HERE.

Solar Chargers is a new category of solar products developed to create a more sustainable world. Solar battery chargers produce enough energy to keep your gadgets going.

Juicebar Pocket Solar Charger.
Connectors included: Mini USB, Motorolla V66, Nokia 8210, Nokia 6101, Female USB, Samsung D80, Sony K750, Micro USB, LG KG800, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, I-pod, USB Cable, DC Cable.
Includes an accessory bag to keep all your devices in one place and your charger protected.

In remote locations, on vacation or in an emergency situation, the solar chargers juice up your electronic devices. When conventional electrical supply fails or is not available these solar chargers prove to be reliable and your only solution. A Solar Charger is easy to use and ready use out of the box.

Juicebar Pocket Solar Charger.

This stylish, sleek and reliable pocket size Universal Battery Charger (Juicebar Solar Charger) is proven to be your best friend in a situation when conventional electric supply is not available or if you are trying to use eco-friendly renewable power supplies.
Your cell phone is out of juice? It is not going to be a problem if you have your own Pocket Solar Charger handy (maybe just charging on your car dash board). In a few moments your mobile will be charged and ready to go! It is great as a solar phone charger for any type of Mobile Phones, IPhones, PSA, PDA, Mp3 Players, Satellite Navigation, and much more.

The Solar Charger can be charged in two ways:
By exposing the solar panel to sunlight or by connection it to a PC with the enclosed cable (instructions are included with the unit).
To ensure optimum performance, charge the pocket solar charger for 6 hours via a USB connection when charging for the first time.
For continued high performance, charge and discharge the unit once every 6 month.

Read more on Juicebar Solar Charger features HERE.

Go green in style with your own personal solar charger!

Image by RAFAA Architecture & Design.

This solar energy generating tower is going to be located on the coast of Rio de Janeiro. It is one of the first buildings that are being designed for the 2016 Rio Olympics. This solar energy generating tower looks like an enormous waterfall. The Solar City Tower is designed by Swiss (Zurich-based) company – RAFAA Architecture & Design. It features a large solar system to generate energy during the day and a pumped water storage system to generate energy at night. RAFAA’s goal is that a symbolic tower such as this can serve as a starting point for a global green movement and help make the 2016 Olympic Games more sustainable.

Image by RAFAA Architecture & Design.

The Solar City Tower is a solar power plant. It is designed to create renewable energy for use in the Olympic Village as well as the city of Rio. A large solar power plant generates energy during the day. Any excess power not used during the day is utilized to pump seawater into a storage tank within the tower. At night, the water is released to power turbines, which will provide nighttime power for the city. A special feature of the building is the urban waterfall. Water is pumped out to create a waterfall over the edges of the building, which Rafael Schmidt of RAFAA says will be “a symbol for the forces of nature.”

Image by RAFAA Architecture & Design.

Access to the eco tower is gained through an urban plaza and amphitheater 60 meters above sea level, which can be used for public gatherings. On the ocean side of the 105 meter tower (behind the waterfall) is a cafeteria and shop. An elevator takes visitors up to the top floor where an observation deck offers 360 spectacular views of the ocean and Rio. At level 90.5, there is a retractable bungee platform for daring guests. Let the games begin!

View at the tower from the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
Image by RAFAA Architecture & Design.

A solar-charged light might seem like just another green gadget to the average American, but for families in rural Africa, it could prove revolutionary.

One or two Solar Pebbles can provide enough light for one home, as houses in rural Africa are generally small.
Image from timo-aim.com.

Product design consultancy Plus Minus Design is trying to replace unsustainable and potentially dangerous lanterns in the homes of off-grid Africans with the Solar Pebble. Engineered with the economic constraints of developing-world citizens in mind, the Solar Pebble will provide one hour of LED light for every two hours of charge, and will cost only $2.70 to manufacture.

A fully charged Solar Pebble can provide up to 22.5 hours of LED light.
Image by Plus Minus Design.

Plus Minus Design, based in Leeds, U.K., was founded by three undergraduate students at the University of Leeds. While studying product design and engineering, Adam Robinson, Henry James, and Tom Eales were given the opportunity to work with SolarAid, a charity in the U.K.

SolarAid, which works to fight poverty and climate change, worked with the students to develop a solar-powered alternative to kerosene lanterns. Those lanterns, commonly used in rural Africa, draw 20 percent of an average Malawian family’s income, SolarAid said, and pose respiratory health problems, as well as create fire hazards.

Image from i.pbase.com.

The undergrads spent months researching life in Malawi to design a product that addressed the needs of rural families, but also took environmental, economic, and lifestyle factors into consideration. Local maintenance, potential for the development of children’s education, and adaptability to charge other devices were the team’s key requirements.

Though mobile phones and portable radios are common in rural Africa, individuals must travel to locations with mains power for charging. With this issue in mind, the engineers designed the Solar Pebble to charge phones and portable devices in addition to providing light.

Plus Minus Design was also able to address the need for local maintenance with a simply designed product assembled through snap-in parts and repairable with basic tools.

The Solar Pebble provides light and a means of portable charging, but its implications are even greater. The lamp will ship partially assembled, providing jobs for locals who would finish assembly. Furthermore, Plus Minus Design hopes the lamp will increase radio usage, providing rural African families with HIV/AIDS prevention information.

According to Robinson, the Solar Pebble will launch in Uganda and the U.K. by midsummer.

Article by Sharon Vaknin.
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