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Versatile Product: Knog Frog Bike Safety Lights

When buying a new product, we like to look for things that have multiple uses—after all, multi-use makes the product all the more green. Especially in a time where we're re-evaluating purchases and ...

Velux Sun Tunnel Skylights
West Coast Green 2008

Forget CFLs and LEDs, the greenest way to light a room is obviously with sunlight. However, it's not always easy to get that sunlight into the darker corners of our homes. ...

LED Lights for Your Home

While visiting some friends this weekend in California, I realized how much we need more light in our home. I simply don’t have time or money to install a Sun-Tek Tube Skylight, but I am thinking so...

Look! Lampshade Slipcovers

We're sure these things are no new, earth-shattering product, but we stopped in our tracks while we were window-shopping yesterday. What a great idea for rehabilitating an old lampshade!...

Green Lighting: Solar Powered LED Pavers

We came across this project for one of our clients and just had to share it because it’s so cool and easy. The solar LED pavers are powered by the sun during the day and provide light night. They a...

Frog Design LED Bulb

At first glance, this looks just like a regular incandescent bulb. Take a longer look and you'll notice that it doesn't look quite right. The thin wire filament is not a wire at all. It is an LED. p...

Herring Lamp by Wunderwurks Design

FrogLight by Frog Design

It's an LED that looks like an incandescent bulb and fits into your average light bulb socket. The only question we have is: Why isn't this product already available in stores? (We're impatient gr...

Solar Powered LED Motion-Activated Light

We couldn't live without the motion-activated light that's above the back stairs to our apartment. It makes us feel safe when we get home late at night; otherwise, we'd be parking and fumbling with ...

Look!: Baking Canisters as Light Fixtures

Two of our favorite things: repurposing and light fixtures. Artist Rodney Allen Trice combines the two in just one project among the most extensive and useful collection of repurposed housewares that...

Lite2go Lamp by Knoend

While we like the design of this pendant lamp, it wouldn't be super remarkable if it weren't for the sales concept: the packaging is the lamp shade itself. The lamp includes a host of other green con...

Better Than CFLs and LEDs? Vu1 Promises Practically Perfect Light Bulb

Have you replaced all of your incandescents with CFLs? Or are you more of an LED person? Do you worry about the mercury in CFLs or the fact that it takes a little extra effort to dispose of them pr...

Good Questions: A Big, Green Chandelier?

This question comes from Kristin: I'm searching for a new light for the entryway/foyer of my home to replace the current, original (from around 1990) monstrous chandelier that needs way too many bulbs...

DIY Upcycled Lighting Ideas from Etsy

Lamps can be made from just about anything heat-resistant using a store-bought wiring kit. We've seen them made from glass bottles, ceramic cups, and sometimes even plastic and metal pieces. Since E...

Recycling Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

One of the major negatives associated with switching to Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) from standard bulbs is the hazards associated with disposing of them when through. Because they contain trace ...

Solar Shoji Lanterns on Montague Street

They popped up on Earth Day back in April. On Montague Street, the struggling commercial street in Brooklyn Heights, green shoji lanterns were installed by the Montague Street Business Improvement D...

Hot or Not? Whippy Light

Oh yeah -- CFLs totally look like soft serve ice cream! Why didn't we think of the Whippy Light ? Via Treehugger...

Leitmotiv Bottle Chandelier

Recently, we've gotten a little tired of the "glass bottle becomes _______" phenomenon. (Should we have admitted that?) We're all about reuse and, of course, we reuse glass bottles left and right i...

Low-Mercury CFL from Sylvania

Hopefully, the majority of people who visit us here at Re-nest regularly have already replaced their traditional incandescent light bulbs with CFLs. We know, the mercury is an issue and CFL disposa...

Danny Seo's Homemade Beeswax Candles

We love the soft glow of candles. Luckily, around the holidays we amassed a small collection of soy candles ... but we're starting to run a little low. We never considered making our own. ...

Mobile Light by Kyouei Design

We've always loved mobiles ... and we (more recently) love LEDs. So this mobile naturally caught our eye. ...

Chandeliers by Madeleine Boulesteix

Madeleine Boulesteix makes lovely chandeliers from teacups and jelly bowls....

SF Flickr Finds: Little Green's Colander Light

You've probably seen Fethi Atakol's colander as lampshade -- but Little Green did it first. (Her photo in our Flickr account is actually a couple of years old.) Check out the one that's all lit up i...

Look! Yogurt Container Lampshade

As if we didn't miss real European yogurt enough as it is (we have yet to find a yogurt stateside that nears the delicious creamy quality of french concoctions), we see this mod-a-licious overhead lam...