Category: Illumination

How to Resurrect Infrastructure Week

    Building resilient infrastructure creates a sustainable future Each year, Infrastructure Week, a US non-profit organization, holds its eponymous event to bring together everyone from leaders to businesses and workers to raise awareness and push toward the common goal of improving infrastructure across the country. Infrastructure Week notes that: A $2 trillion increase in […]

Communities Transformed After Renewing Regional Rail-Trails

    Urban renewal can start with well-lit, accessible pathways What is urban renewal? It typically involves taking underused or abandoned land and transforming it into something new that is both aesthetically pleasing and functional. It can also transform abandoned infrastructure, like rail lines, which saw a decline in use beginning in the 1960s that […]

Make City Routes Safer with a Walk Audit

    Add easy-to-install traffic safety beacons, signs, and street lighting   Assessing lighting on routes to your parks or other routes throughout your city is an easy way to identify potential challenges in finding safe routes for all community members. The Safe Routes to School National Partnership, a national non-profit organization, has been a tireless […]

EverGen Featured in Electrical Business Magazine

    Electrical Business magazine includes story on smart IoT solutions for lighting Thanks to high demand and lower costs, more cities are turning to IoT solutions for lighting, providing data for effective monitoring and reporting. Learn how Carmanah’s Sol outdoor lighting and Globalstar’s monitoring technology work together to become a complete solution in this article […]

New York Redevelopment Project Adds Solar Lights

  Solar lighting takes center stage in Newburgh, New York Newburgh, New York, is a city about 60 miles north of New York City, along the Hudson River. Here, the non-profit organization Safe Harbors of the Hudson developed a mixed-use housing and arts redevelopment project out of a deteriorating hotel, providing not only a home but […]

LED Color Temperature Warms Up

  Finding a replacement for the blue-white light of high-intensity LEDs Many communities embraced the advent of LED street lights to replace the incumbent high-pressure sodium lights that dominate our roads; after all, they are much more efficient than their predecessors. However, early adoption may have also come at a cost to the health and […]

Solar Training Center in Haiti Puts Sol Front and Center

In late October 2017, the Solar Training Center at Haiti Tec in Port au Prince, Haiti, will begin its inaugural first-year solar technician class—and the Sol EG145 solar street light will be in the spotlight. Brad Burkhartzmeyer and Carol Weis, members of the Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) curriculum team, set up the program in […]

Carmanah Receives Solar Outdoor Lighting Purchase Orders Valued at $1.5M USD

Carmanah Receives Solar Outdoor Lighting Purchase Orders Valued at $1.5M USD VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (January 21, 2014) Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) today announced that it has received purchase orders from a single customer for $1.5M USD for solar outdoor lights and hardware. Carmanah is making this disclosure as it has determined that these […]

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Australian Regulator Selects Carmanah Solar Lighting

Australian Regulator Selects Carmanah Solar Lighting VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (May 8, 2012) Carmanah Technologies (TSX: CMH) is pleased to announce that the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads has certified the Carmanah EG320 outdoor solar lighting system for roadway lighting across the state, and has selected Orion Solar, authorized Carmanah distributor of Australia, […]