GreenLight!

I saw these super-creative light fixtures at the Haute Green design exhibit at the end of May and was really taken with them. Turns out I’m not the only one: see more about them here, and here. GreenLight is part of an experimental design project out of NYU.

A solar panel runs the super-efficient LED light which grows the plants and filters interior air. This is ideal for less-than-sunny rooms or basement or windowless apartments, and offices.

From an information card I picked up at Haute Green:

The GreenLight is a product developed for the Environmental Health Clinic and Prescription Project. The light is prescribed for patients of the Clinic who are interested in exploring living possibilities in response to the climate crisis. The GreenLight explores distributed power productions, coupled design systems (light diffusion with photosynthetic processes, and indoor air quality). The plants used were specially selected to remove formaldehyde to improve air quality. This closed-loop solar powered lighting fixture achieves light diffusion with vegetation.

And they look amazing too!

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Starre Vartan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Eco-Chick and author of The Eco-Chick Guide to Life (St. Martin's Press). A problogger and oft-quoted green living expert who has been featured in the NYTimes, Elle, Glamour and Whole Living, she is a contributor to The Huffington Post, Inhabitat, and Hearst's The Daily Green, and is currently editor-at-large for Coco Eco Magazine. An active ecofashionista, she has style edited for Plenty magazine and coordinated runway shows. She splits her time between Connecticut and NYC and calls Sydney, Australia her second home, even though it was her first (as that's where she was born and most of her family resides). When not writing, blogging, or researching her next book, she is trailrunning, trying to cook, or snowboarding.

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3 Comments on “GreenLight!”

Ann Marie Scorsone

I love the idea of them, and would like to learn more. Are they out on the market yet? Costs? Installation? Maintance? They are beautiful. I imagine a few in the kitchen, with herbs and light veggies maybe. One in the bathroom filled with lavender. Living space filled with sage and so on…
Thanks!

06/19/07 » 10:02 am »
Starre

No, these are just a design project as of now….I think they should market them though! I would get one for an office for sure!

06/19/07 » 12:48 pm »
Annalise

These lights are amazing! They would be perfect for my kitchen to grow weekend cocktail herbs. I just had LED lights installed in my apartment. They are a fantastic light which turn on instantly and are easy to install. I brought mine from Brightgreen http://brightgreen.net.au/. I might suggest they make plant fixtures next

08/11/10 » 11:01 pm »