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Now is the perfect time to install affordable eco-friendly outdoor solar lighting. The Green Home Environmental Store  offers solar lighting units online.

Outdoor Solar Light - Copper

This solar powered garden light combines unique style with function, efficiency, and the easiest installation possible!

The light emits a beautiful white glow and will run up to 10 hours per night. Effectively lights up your garden, driveways, patios and walkways - making for a much safer outdoor environment.

Since its solar powered, you don't have to rip apart your garden to install electrical wiring. Installation is a snap whether placing in the ground with the shepherd hook or mounting on the wall. Wall mount included for easy attachment to the side of your home, above the mail box or the house number. Die cast aluminum material in a beautiful copper finish.

3 Rechargeable Ni-Cad batteries included. New Technology bulb - LED never needs replacement. Measures 9 inches long and 6.5 inches diameter. Hook is two feet high from ground. One Year Limited Warranty.

Features:

• Charges by day; automatically turns on at night.
• LED Bulb never needs replacement.
• Die Cast Aluminum housing.
• High capacity all weather nickel cadmium batteries easy to replace.
• Shepherd hook and wall mount included.

Green Home Environmental Store

"Green home, Inc. first started in 1999 and has continued to succeed as the longest lasting environmental store and resource center on the internet. Located in the Richmond District of San Francisco, our main office is still technically in the original garage space, although there is a mystical spaceship atmosphere within the garage as we suspend ourselves in the endless universe of the internet in search of better ways to improve our planet." :-)

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Light Emitting Designs Launches Three Linear LED Fixtures

Light Emitting Designs LLC, a maker of LED luminaires for the commercial and industrial markets, has announced three new 12v LED linear fixtures. The linear fixtures come in lengths of 12 to 60-inches in a choice of day light or soft white.

The luminaries consume between 4 and 16 watts of power. Each 12-inch length provides 150 lumens. The luminaires have a CRI of 75 or above and three year warranty and all of the 12v luminaires are dimmable.

The LED luminaires are available in three housing styles:

• “S” (Square) Series with square extruded white powder coat aluminum housing;
• “R” (Round) Series with round extruded brushed aluminum housing that is rotatable to 360 degrees;
• "SC" (Showcase) Series: show case extruded brushed aluminum housing that is rotatable to 360 degrees.

108 S. Wynstone Park Drive, Suite 103
North Barrington, IL 60010
Telephone:     (847) 380-3540
www.led-llc.com

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Adjust the Payback Calculator cells to get a quick estimate on how Kramer Lighting's "THE EDGE" LED lighting products can reduce your energy and maintenance cost.

Functional variables in the LED Payback Calculator include:

• HID Fixture type
• HID Lamp type
• Total HID system Wattage
• HID Lamp Rated Life
• Number of Fixtures
• Cost per kWHr
• Days per week
• Hours per day
• Annual hours of operation
• Per Fixture relamp cost

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"In a restaurant -- where people must look as aesthetically pleasing to each other as the food does to them -- the quality of light is crucial - the type of fixture and the kind of light they produce," says Re:Vision's Jeremy Avellino, an architect/designer and former builder.

For now, he has chosen compact fluorescents (CFLs) that cast a surprising bluish light. They'll use nearly one-quarter the energy incandescent bulbs would and will last 10,000 hours or more.

CFLs produce varying shades of white light, identified by color temperature measured on the Kelvin scale, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Web site (www.energystar.gov). Lower Kelvin numbers mean the light has a warmer color; higher numbers mean the light has a cooler cast. But not all manufacturers list color temperature on their packaging.

Most CFLs on the market offer soft or warm light (2,700K to 3,000K), comparable to an incandescent, that will enhance warmer room colors such as red, yellow and orange, the Web site says. At higher Kelvin color temperatures (3,500 to 6,500K), CFLs will emit more white to bluish-white light that enhances cooler colors (blue, green, violet).

"Our eyes have been tuned to incandescent bulbs for years," Avellino says. "After you get used to compact fluorescent . . . people look better."

But even in mid-renovation, decisions are being reconsidered at the White Dog. The CFLs are an interim step, to be replaced ultimately with light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

LEDs are Environmentally Sound, Use Less Energy, and Last Longer

LEDs are the next wave because they are more environmentally sound, use less energy and last longer than both CFLs and incandescents, Wicks and Avellino say.

LED Colors are Endlessly Creative!

And the light they cast allows for any number of tones and moods. "You can totally name your color," Wicks says.

LED Lights for Exterior AND Interior

Though she is starting to use LEDs in exterior lighting, as the technology advances Wicks plans to use them inside, too - they are easier to dim, an important feature for a restaurant.

Don't Stop with Creative Rays -- Create Environmentally Friendly Fixtures, too!

For environmentally aware designs, he uses life's flotsam and junk: old brass instruments, discarded crystal candy dishes, colanders, antique glass jars, car and motorcycle parts.

Being ahead of the game in repurposing what's available is what led developer Tony Goldman to Muller's door.

Goldman Properties helped create New York City's SoHo district and Miami's South Beach from once-trashed warehouses and old hotel spaces. In Philadelphia, he's taken on a once-worn-out area of South 13th Street between Locust and Chestnut.

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The Cree Solutions Providers network offers customers a full range of LED lighting-system solutions and design assistance to help accelerate time to market and reduce product development costs.

Network members work closely with Cree to help ensure alignment of technologies. They are chosen based on their history of collaborating successfully with customers. Services provided from within the network include:

•  Design consulting
•  Customized design
•  LED engines
•  Turnkey solutions
•  Sub-assembly
•  Complete assembly

“Cree Solutions Providers represent a select group of value-added solutions providers who can help accelerate the time-to-market of high-quality LED lighting systems based on Cree XLamp® LEDs,” noted Bob Pollock, Cree senior vice president of sales. “The rapidly increasing demand for high-performance LED lighting systems presents a huge potential sales opportunity for those who deliver quality fixtures to market quickly. The Cree Solutions Providers program is designed to help our customers address this opportunity.”

Cree Solutions Providers currently include:
* BAFA/Zerolight: www.bafatasarim.com
* CRS: www.crselectronics.com
* Entity: www.entityel.it
* Heatron: www.heatron.com
* I2 Systems: www.i2systems.com
* Innovative Electronic Solutions: www.ies-nc.com
* Illumination Optics: www.illuminationoptics.com
* Infinilux: www.infinilux.com
* LED Lighting Supply: www.ledlightingsupply.com
* LED Specialists: www.ledspecialists.com
* Marktech: www.marktechopto.com
* Optoelectronix: www.optoelectronix.com
* Relume: www.relume.com
* Forge Europa Visible Solutions: www.visible-solutions.co.uk

For additional information on Cree Solutions Providers, please call 919-313-5300 or visit www.cree.com.

About Cree, Inc.
Cree is a market-leading innovator and manufacturer of semiconductors and devices that enhance the value of solid-state lighting, power and communications products by significantly increasing their energy performance and efficiency.

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MARCH 4, 2008 – Electronic component distributor Digi-Key Corporation and Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a leader in wide bandgap transistors and radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), announced today that Cree’s silicon carbide (SiC) Metal-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors (MESFETs) are now in stock and ready for shipment from Digi-Key.

Digi-Key Corporation is a broad-line distributor of electronic components and accessories. Digi-Key supports a broad range of customers through its focus on product selection, along with its commitment to stock 100 percent of the products featured in its print catalog.

According to corporate news briefings, Cree’s 10-watt CRF24010 and 60-watt CRF24060 are un-internally matched SiC RF transistors, capable of supporting extremely wide operational bandwidths. SiC has superior properties compared to silicon or gallium arsenide, including higher breakdown voltage, higher saturated electron drift velocity, and higher thermal conductivity. SiC MESFETs offer greater efficiency, greater power density, and wider bandwidths. SiC MESFETs are optimized for applications such as wideband military communications, secure homeland defense communications, Class A and A/B amplifiers, TDMA, EDGE, CDMA, W-CDMA broadband amplifiers, and WiMAX.

Also available from Digi-Key are the CRF24010-TB and CRF24060-TB Demonstration Test Fixtures. These products, featured in Digi-Key’s print and online catalogs, are available for purchase and same-day shipping directly from Digi-Key.

“The power density and efficiency advantages of Cree’s MESFETs will enable scores of engineers to enhance the performance of their new designs,” said Mark Larson, Digi-Key president and COO.

“Cree’s 48-volt products have proven to be extremely useful in applications requiring high power and efficiency over wide operational bandwidths – especially for those operating in high thermal environments. We’re confident the convenience of using Digi-Key’s distribution services will help accelerate the adoption of the technology,” said Jim Milligan, Cree director of RF and Microwave products.

About Digi-Key Corporation
Digi-Key has earned a reputation as an industry leader through its total commitment to service and performance. As a full-service provider of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, Digi-Key has been ranked #1 for Overall Performance for 16 consecutive years from among the nation’s more than 200 distributors (EE Times Distribution Study/ May 2007). Offering more than a million products from over 400 quality name-brand manufacturers Digi-Key’s commitment to inventory is unparalleled. Access to the company’s broad product offering is available 24/7 at Digi-Key’s top-rated website, www.digikey.com.

About Cree, Inc.
Cree is a market-leading innovator and manufacturer of semiconductors and devices that enhance the value of solid-state lighting, power and communications products by significantly increasing their energy performance and efficiency, www.cree.com

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MARCH 3, 2008 — Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a market leader in LED solid-state lighting, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of privately held LED Lighting Fixtures, Inc.

This acquisition expands Cree’s market opportunity by providing direct access to the lighting market. Cree's business now encompasses LED chips, components and lighting solutions. It further enables Cree to drive retrofit solutions to convert existing lighting infrastructure to energy-efficient lighting and to accelerate the adoption of LED lighting.

“We are out to lead the LED lighting revolution and to obsolete the lightbulb,” said Chuck Swoboda, chairman and chief executive officer of Cree.

Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting retrofit solutions, and semiconductor solutions for backlighting, wireless and power applications.

CONTACT: http://www.cree.com

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November, 2007 — LEDtronics introduces an addition to its line of drop-in replacement MR16-styled LED bulbs: High-powered 3Watt LED MR16 bulbs.

These new 3Watt MR16 LED bulbs have two big advantages over other MR16 LED bulbs.

First, they are engineered to handle the variations in voltages that may accompany “noisy” or “dirty” AC or DC power supplies, eliminating potential burnout from incoming voltage that is higher than the lamp’s capacity. Second, the new 3Watt MR16 bulbs eliminate the need to stock a variety of LED MR16 bulbs to coordinate with different voltages that power supplies of 12Volt AC/DC – 24Volt DC may present, simplifying procurement and inventory procedures.

High-powered 3Watt LED MR16 bulbs (Series Number MR16-3W) have the following characteristics; bi-pin bases just like standard incandescent MR16 bulbs, and light outputs of 102.9 lumens using only 2.6Watts with 12Volts DC, 120.6lumens using only 3.7Watts with 12Volts AC, and 140.7 lumens using only 3.8Watts with 24Volts DC. The bulb features three High-Power LEDs and is offered in Cool White (6500 Kelvin) and Warm White (3000 Kelvin) color temperatures. Both Warm and Cool Whites are offered in 61° beam angles (2 ½). With factory approval, MR16-3W bulbs may be ordered in other LED colors, voltages and beam angles.

MR16-3W bulbs carry a three-year limited warranty.

Unlike halogen MR16 lamps that create potentially damaging heat and have caused fires when accidentally in contact with other objects, LED-sourced MR16-3W bulbs generate less heat while operating and pose no threat to the objects they are illuminating or their surroundings.

Lighting professionals, architects, industrial designers and maintenance departments will find these MR16-3W lamps to be excellent solutions for their maintenance-free and low-voltage applications. MR16-3W lamps are commonly used for accent, task, and display lighting, track lighting in museums, jewelry stores, and hotels. They are excellent for both residential lighting situations and entertainment venues like theaters, restaurants, and theme parks.

With an average White LED lifespan of up to 50,000-hours (five years), LEDs operate reliably year after year. Solid-state design renders LEDs impervious to electrical and mechanical shock, vibration, frequent switching and environmental fluctuation. Integrated current-limited resistors prevent short-circuiting. LED lamps use only 10%-20% of the energy consumed by equivalent incandescent lamps. When combined with their maintenance-free operation this results in substantial cost savings.

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CARPINTERIA, Calif. — February 26, 2008 — Holland Scott Gallery debuts the Environmentally Responsible Green Energy Fine Art Lamps. These lamps combine energy-efficiency technology with fine-art design. 

Elegant photographic floral images and art-deco linoleum patterns from the 1930's are the result of energy efficient LED (Light Emitting Diode) lamp technology and the Giclée (zhee-clay) fine-art printmaking process. The Giclée printmaking process uses permanent archival vegetable die inks on the cylindrical illuminated photographic image. Additional lamp designs are in production.

Omni-directional, these LED lamps provide the correct color temperature of daylight for displaying naturally brilliant photographic colors. They also generate no heat and are free from harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays that may cause fading over time. More importantly, LED lamps use 80 to 90 percent less energy than the incandescent lamps they replace.

Inventor and artist, Candy Hawthorne, along with her husband and art dealer, Scott, also a professional photographer and a true-digital art pioneer, are the brains behind the first Green Energy Fine Art Lamps. They have been creating art mediums with computers and technology since 1978.

Scott is a designer and creative evangelist; his contemporary photographic works are represented in each lamp he designs.

"The natural photographic beauty is complemented with the soft LED lighting; these new lamps look spectacular," Scott said. "The eco-friendliness of the new lamps is also very exciting."

The new long lasting LED lighting is provided by LEDtronics, one of the leading LED lighting design and manufacturing companies in the U.S. of direct incandescent replacement long life and energy saving LED bulbs. The LEDtronics lights that are being using are their TRF-G30-XCW-02 for the larger Art lamps and the TRF-A19-XCW-02 for the smaller Art lamps.

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Ledtronics, Inc. listens -- and many of the new ideas come from their customers. When faced with an "impossible" challenge from one of their customers, the Ledtronics team often finds a new product is created and a new market born in the bargain.

They are expanding markets for LED lighting in the following markets:
Aerospace, Architectural Lighting, Automation, Automotive, Aviation, Broadcasting, Datacomm/Telecomm, Electronic Instrumentation, Elevators, Entertainment, Gaming, Government Agencies, Industrial Automation, Medical, Military / Defense, Panel Indicators, Photo Development, Printed Circuit Boards, Security Sensors, Solar Power Products, Traffic and Safety, Transportation, Utilities and Video.

For example: Architecture / Interior Design

LEDs are emerging as a mainstream tool for architects, interior designers and lighting professionals with the vision to move beyond the limits of incandescent, fluorescent and neon.

LEDTronics pioneered the use of multi-LED arrays on conventional electrical bases. This innovation has opened up a vast spectrum of creative possibilities to any professional dealing with interior or environmental lighting. LED arrays are used as accent lighting in hard-to-reach places where frequent relamping is impractical. With a life span of 100,000 hours (that's more than 10 years), LEDs are far preferable to incandescents in such situations.

SolarLEDs™ provide energy-efficiency vastly greater than conventional lighting, and are ideal for any battery-driven application, or, any time minimal power consumption is required.

StripLights™ and PathLights™ provide directional lighting for steps, stairways and walkways.

Although LEDs can successfully replace incandescent and other forms of illumination in almost all cases, there are some considerations which must be taken into account. Unlike incandescent lamps, LEDs produce light in a single wavelength and a single direction. LEDTronics designs cluster arrays to increase the amount of illumination, or package them as bar graphs or with right angles.

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Staples’ energy policy is rooted in its commitment to protect natural resources through sustainable business practices. This commitment covers four major areas:

• Purchase and promotion of products containing post-consumer recycled materials,
• Energy conservation and renewable-power procurement,
• Recycling initiatives, and
• Environmental education to build awareness among associates and consumers

Staples opened its first “green store” prototype in 2003, in East Wareham, Mass. It was built from the ground up to be as energy efficient as possible, starting with the materials used in its construction. Several of the lighting designs to save energy include:

• T-8 single-lamp fixtures with dimmable ballasts (work in con-junction with skylights)
• High-efficiency pulse-start parking-lot lights
• LED signage
• Back-room motion sensors

Energy planning is carefully integrated into Staples’ organizational model. The chain’s energy team, in place for many years, develops strategies for each component of energy management on an annual basis.

Staples joined EPA’s Green Power Partnership Program in 2002, with a commitment to purchase 2% of its total energy load from green or renewable power sources by the end of 2003. The chain made good on its promise and then some. Currently, renewable power accounts for 10% of the chain’s total annual
U.S. electricity consumption, making it the largest purchaser of green power in retail

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Hidden strip lights provide task lighting under counters, cabinets, accent shelves and even bookshelves. LED light strips generate only a small fraction of the heat of incandescent or Xenon lights. The radiant heat of each individual LED lamp is roughly equivalent to that of a 1 watt light bulb.

LED strip lights also provide an ideal source of retail showcase lighting that displays heat-sensitive items. Products such as makeup, textiles, foods, and produce, can quickly deteriorate when exposed to radiant heat and/or ultraviolet light.

Museum lighting of historical documents, antiques, and ancient artifacts. Jewelry stores prefer LED strip lights that provide high level of color temperature precision.

In addition to the primary colors of red, blue, and green, LED cabinet lights come in warm white and daylight. Two or more of these colors can be mixed together to achieve custom illumination that brings out the details of a fine cut diamond, or that highlights intricate patterns carved in precious metal jewelry.

LED strip lights come in a variety of trims. There are three mounting categories: Horizontal, Vertical, and Cove. All trims are custom made to fit your needs. We never take a stock fixture and modify it to fit your cabinet.

LED strip light bulbs are also installed in larger industrial spaces as energy savers and contributors to LEED green building certification.

In lighting installations where scaffolding or lifts must be used to replace bulbs in ceiling lighting systems in hard to reach areas or tall rooms, LED light lamps reduce costs by lengthening lamp replacement cycles -- and saving maintenance costs (as well as replacement bulb costs).

One high quality lighting provider is Phantom Lighting System. This national company is a pioneer, Houston-based art lighting company and low voltage lighting manufacturer that services the lighting and design community. Phantom Contour Projector and Phantom strip lights feature lighting technology includes a revolutionary approach to decorative picture lighting and low voltage display, shelf, and under cabinet lighting.

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LED programmable electronic message billboards provide portable message displays.

Personal LCD electronic billboards for office, store or home. These small, plug and play signs let you program messages for your visitors, members or prospects to see in bright red scrolling text.

Small-scale window-billboards are often available for under $100. High-end digital billboard technology lets you adapt this LCD technology for everyday use.

• Retail stores can promote sales or tell customers to visit the company website after-hours.
• Restaurants can inform guests about the specials of the day.
• Offices can use it as a motivational tool for employees by displaying the employee of the week or month.
• And restaurants and bars can let people know about upcoming events.

Features can include built-in keyboards, digital clocks, and bases that can be removed for wall mounting.

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LED Light Tubes are the next generation of neon lights. With multichanging colors and motion, these light tubes bring a new excitement to displays and retail signs. Sometimes called "LED neon tubes", these programmable light arrays bring large scale color and motion to signage.

This 40-tube array demonstrates the speed and smoothness of color change available in LED light tubes.

LED Music Tube Lights can also be programmed to flash with the beat of the music. Programming possibilities are colorful, motion-sensitive and endless!

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