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Green innovation products
Every year, April 22 is recognized as Earth Day. According to earthday.org, the date marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. You can learn more about its history and origins by visiting the site.
The environmental movement has special significance for LightFair as the lighting community increasingly embraces scalable green innovations, technologies that deliver energy savings and sustainable, responsible and human-centric lighting design. This direction of development represents the convergence of what is right for the planet and for all those who call it home. Done well, smart choices deliver a true win-win.
We take this opportunity to highlight some of the members of the LightFair community of exhibitors, lighting designers, vendors and facility partners and the role they play in shaping the future of lighting, events, LightFair and the planet.
Our exhibitors: providers of green innovation solutions
We are proud to welcome and applaud exhibitors who lead the way in achieving the seemingly impossible feat of carbon neutrality, demonstrate the viability of alternate energy, off-grid technologies, energy savings via sensors and controls and more while delivering on interoperability, safety, security and aesthetics. From greenway trails to large housing development projects, their solutions touch all of us and their impact is far-reaching.
(Above and Below) If you live in the Los Angeles area, you may have come across the Whittier Greenway Trail Extension lighting project. Grid-connected lighting was not an option, so LightFair exhibitor SOL by Sunna Design delivered 56 EverGen M Series solar lighting systems for the 2.8-mile trail extension. Each system is equipped with one 170W solar panel, one battery, and a Dark-Sky compliant LED fixture all mounted on a 20-foot steel pole. The next time you’re out for a run, do stop and take note.
(Below) When conventional solutions were not viable for a large housing development project in Dubai, LightFair exhibitor HEI Technology delivered a green innovation solution: over 330 off-grid solar light poles with unique, vertically integrated cylindrical photovoltaics.
HEI took on the challenge of providing a public lighting solution that would avoid CO2 emissions and electricity costs, reduce construction costs, and minimize operation and maintenance expenses. How did they do it? Read the solar lighting project case study here.
