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Solar Wind Chime Lights: When Sound and Light Combine in One Hanging Fixture

The idea is elegant. Take a wind chime, add solar-powered color-changing LEDs, and hang it from a porch eave or…

I planted six sets of kinetic butterfly solar lights in my test garden last April. By October, two sets were…

Natural material solar fixtures occupy a strange corner of the market. Most solar lights are plastic, metal, or glass, and…

The product listing looked compelling. A solar flood light with a 10,000 mAh battery, a 5V USB output port, and…

The solar lighting industry borrowed bifacial panel technology from the utility-scale solar market, where dual-sided panels have been generating 5…

Flush-mounted solar brick lights sit level with the surrounding paver surface, creating a clean line of illumination that appears to…

I found the candelabra at a thrift store for eight dollars. It was a five-arm brass thing, slightly tarnished, missing…

Circadian lighting spent a decade as a niche concern of sleep researchers and high-end interior designers. The idea is straightforward…

Basement window wells are one of the most neglected corners of a house. They are rectangular pits dug into the…

There is a category of solar garden light where the fixture is almost a disappointment if you judge it by…

Walk into any backyard bar built in the last three summers and you will probably see the same thing glowing…

Walk down any suburban sidewalk installed between 2005 and 2018 and you will see them: rows of plastic path lights…

I put up my first outdoor solar Christmas display three winters ago, and the motivation was not environmental. It was…

Every spring, a neighbor asks me some version of the same question. “I want to put solar lights along my…

Most beekeeping happens in daylight, but the moments you actually need a light at the apiary come at the worst…