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Survey: Are You Using LED Lights This Year?

My household got our first Christmas tree in 5 years, which means we needed new lights! So naturally we opted for the LED variety, but to be honest, after seeing some of tell tale blue-hued LED ligh...

Philips Offers New Bulb For $10 Million "L Prize"
The New York Times

Philips — the large Dutch electronics manufacturer — announced last week that it submitted the first entry for the L Prize, a contest run by the Department of Energy that plans to award ...

Pharox 6W Dimmable Lightbulbs

We have a confession to make. Although we want to be green in every way possible, when it comes to lighting, CFL bulbs are just...well...awful. We've gotten over the design of them but it's not quit...

Green or Not: CFL Bulbs?

We've talked a lot recently about the LED bulb revolution (here and here) and the fact that they're likely to replace CFLs as the go-to green bulb. We've also noticed in the Comments that many of y...

LED Bulbs Continue To Take Over the World!

Buckingham Palace recently made the switch to LED bulbs. By now you know that LEDs are fast becoming the preferred energy-efficient light bulb, and even Buckingham Palace is getting on board. The Ne...

Green Style: LED Luma Lamp by UM

If you saw the story in the NYTimes on Friday about the rise of LED lights, you know how powerful the promise is that these things hold. Above is a swanky new lamp that we spotted at Brooklyn Desig...

Green Style: Luximo LED Task Light

We saw this new task light at ICFF and had to stop and take a pic. it's slim, it's elegant, it's bright and it's part of the leading edge in LED design. Winning the 2008 Lighting for Tomorrow award...

LEDs not CFLs are the Bulbs of the Future
The New York Times 5.11.09

Multiverse installation with 41,000 LEDs LEDs ("Light-Emitting Diodes") have long played second fiddle to CFLs, but according to The New York Times the lighting industry is looking to LEDs to "light"...

Hot or Not? LED Table Runner and Placemats

Somehow, Sylvania (the light bulb company) has managed to squeeze LED's into place mats and table runners! While I'm all for widespread LED usage, has this gone too far? Place your vote after the jump...

Start Your Seeds In a DIY Growbox!

If the Recycled Rotisserie Chicken Green House wasn't your thing (maybe you're a vegetarian?) for Starting Seeds for Spring, maybe you'd prefer this DIY grow box with LED lights....

Where To Use LEDs In Your Home... Right Now

Last week we had a good question about what type of fluorescent light to use for undercabinet lighting – all the comments said use an LED instead. This got us thinking that just because some LEDs ar...

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...

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...

Mobile Light by Kyouei Design

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

Solar Shoji Lanterns

These traditional Shoji Lanterns have a contemporary twist: the top of the lantern houses a solar panel that charges an LED bulb inside......

Lightway OLED Shutters

Double duty. These Lightway shutters from Australian design student, Damian Salvo, offer two solutions. Keep out unwanted light during the day, and add light and color to your nights....

Gravia Lamp

Now this is a (literally) brilliant idea: a lamp that needs no plug and is powered by gravity. To turn it on, place weights in the top. Gravity makes the mechanism move slowly down the interior colu...

Green Ideas: LED Ambiance

No, it isn't a UFO...it's an idea we got from Natural Home Magazine and used at our last dinner party to create great, "greener" ambiance. We took our depression-ware parfaits glasses, placed a rec...

Hot or Not? The Green Light

The LED Green Light It's an LED chandelier/planter pot from the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at New York University. The concept goes like this: More energy-efficient (read: insulated) build...

October Best Posts: Green Seating, Nomadic LED Lamps, and Habitat for Humanity ReStore

In October we looked at a great place to get secondhand home improvement materials, nomadic, energy-efficient lamps, and fun green seating. [links after the jump]...

Green Stocking Stuffer: LED Night Light

It's not much to look at -- but we think this LED Night Light (available at Target for $9.99) would make a pretty great stocking stuffer. It has all sorts of things going for it. First off, it's an L...

Green Stocking Stuffers: Dynamo Illuminator Wind-up LED Flashlight

Talk about a gift that says you care. This wind-up LED flashlight ($7.50 at Amazon) satisfies both our green and nerdy/practical tendencies. It's super thoughtful -- the perfect addition to a home (o...