Power to the Piccolos

If you’re searching for a bright green idea in the local arts scene, you’ll have to look up…. way up. In fact, you’ll have to look as high as the roof of the historic Royal Theatre, future home of the Solar Symphony Project. And while a Solar...

Ballard has Lots of Company

The sound you heard during George W. Bush’s state of the union address in January was Greenpeace activists everywhere falling off their chairs. The former Texas oil man, a lighting rod for criticism about the United States’ energy policy and its plans to...

Profits Light up Carmanah

VICTORIA — Light maker Carmanah Technologies Corp. reported higher profits last year on a huge jump in revenues helped in part by an acquisition in the solar lighting field. The Victoria company said late Thursday it earned a net profit of $680,962 last year, a...

Lighting Innovator Honoured

David Green – the founder and chairman of Carmanah Technologies of Victoria, a company whose solar power and LED lighting systems illuminate more than 110 countries – has been named Canada’s Exporter of the Year for 2005. Carmanah also won the...