Vancouver bus shelters to go solar LED
Vancouver has joined Toronto, Los Angeles and Edinburgh with its decision to install bus shelters lit with Carmanah Technologies’ solar LED lighting system. The company’s i-Shelter technology will illuminate signs in 225 new bus shelters to be installed throughout Canada’s third-largest city. Municipalities apparently like the idea of providing lighting for general safety, as well as illumination for advertising and other signs, without having to rip up concrete and lay electric wiring. It’s a good move for Vancouver as it prepares to host the 2010 Olympics on the theme of “sustainability.”
On another note, PROFIT Magazine ranked Carmanah the 36th fastest growing company in the country.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
