Want to add natural light to a drab room? Skylights and solar tubes are two options to consider. Your roof orientation, design taste, budget and energy-efficiency goals all come into play when ...

We have a lot of off grid design features in our house. One of those is solar tubes. Since they seem to generate so much interest with visitors I thought I would share what I know about them after ...

Large banks of windows are becoming more common in new home construction because Canadians thirst for natural light. Logan McPhail, owner of LightCo Solar Systems, describes a solar tube as a shaft ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hand pointing to landscape light on display at store - Summer Paradive/Shutterstock When considering ways to add greener forms of ...

Brett Batten and his fiancee Ying faced a problem in their Wortley Village duplex that’s common to many older homes: a lack of daylight, and concurrently a lack of fresh air in their loft. Two older ...

Switch to solar with a system built for you. Solar lighting mainly refers to outdoor lighting that’s powered by natural energy from the sun. There are indoor applications, but they’re just starting to ...

When you think about harnessing the power of solar energy for your home, the cost point of solar panels may be intimidating. But, what about a low-cost way to use solar power? With solar powered ...

In the context of our cities today, where the affordable land area available per person is limited, it is common to see landlocked built spaces with limited to no access to the outdoors. This results ...

Savita Rani, a class IX drop out in a village in Dungapur, has earned Rs 5,000 from selling solar tube lights in the just three villages last month. File photo of women from Dungarpur getting ...

The next wave of solar power technology may be a skinny glass tube that looks like a fluorescent light bulb painted black. The tube contains 150 solar cells, wrapped around the inside of the glass.