Today begins the Virtual Energy Forum, with speakers like Amory Lovins, John Kerry and Mark Ginsberg (Sr. Director of the Dept. of Energy - DOE). The whole conference is VIRTUAL, which is way cooler that I thought it would be. Attending the conference is free, and feels like playing a video game. The home page of the conference is called the Lobby and gives a user experience like Second Life or Sally's Spa (my new favorite iPhone app!).
Anyway, that's not what this post is about.
In the DOE's virtual booth, you can view a cross-section of a house with pop-up boxes describing really useful information on how to improve energy savings around your home. I clicked around and found out that some outdoor lighting manufacturers now make LED lights for your garden and yard. From there, I could find a list of retailers, chose Amazon, and searched their site for "LED" under "Outdoor Lighting."
That is when I got this awesome product that you see above. It is called the "Solar Bunny Rabbit LED Accent Light WELCOME SIGN."
I'm not sure that the demographic for energy-reducing-solar-powered-outdoor-lighting-products is the same as that for lawn-figurine-in-shape-of-cute-yet-creepy-crouching-bunny-holding-welcome-sign, but maybe it's a great gift idea for a relative or a neighbor who leaves their lights, TV and radio on all night, as a sort of push toward energy efficiency. Or maybe it will just make you feel better knowing that one of their garden gnomes now runs on renewable energy and LEDs.
Whatever it is, this is rad. I think we've come a long way.
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I need to get me one of these. I've always wanted to provide a glow-in-the-dark friend to my dog.
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