Two students of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design have incorporated Sollight products into their first project as architecture professionals. Shin Cho and Stuart Helo, two 2009 Harvard grads and partners of Cho+Helo created a jagged aluminum pavilion hovering over the lawn outside the Graduate School of Design’s main building. The structure consists of 120 tetrahedra [...]

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Sollight customer Jerry Whiting from Seattle shared with us this unique use of the LightCap 200. According to Jerry:
During the 728 Club’s 21st annual hike, we had a chance to use the Lightcap/200’s given to us by member Mark C. Clyde took it upon himself to use them as “light bongos”. We were all duly [...]

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We left Portland last Thursday and headed west down the Columbia on a warm, sunny, glorious morning for the 90 mile cruise, pulling into Astoria 8 hours later where we dropped off one crew member and picked up another. The journey went from glassy cruising at 10 knots to rollicking climbs up 7′ wind [...]

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British rower Roz Savage continues her bid to be the first woman to row across the Pacific Ocean. She completed the first stage of her journey last fall, rowing her 24’ ocean rowing boat from San Francisco to Hawaii. On May 24 she set out from Hawaii for the second leg of her quest—the 2,500 [...]

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While we we’re in Baja we used a Lightcap 200, a lot. And I mean a lot. We even used it to go to the bathroom!  The Lightcap 200 is is a bottle cap that will fit on most Nalgene and Camelback bottles. It’s solar powered so that really helped. I used it as a [...]

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Thanks to all you wonderful ZimAid performers, volunteers, and attendees for helping create a great evening!
This message is to let you know that ZimAid Hood River 2008 had a profit of $618. This money will be sent directly to the Dewedzo villages in Zimbabwe for Ancient Ways’, Jangano Project. An estimated 125 people attended the [...]

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Our latest addition to Team Sollife is Rod Parmenter. Rod  has been a fan of action sports since he was a child growing up in Oregon. At 16, Rod had already made a name for himself, appearing on the cover of Ski Magazine and featured on the pages of numerous other publications. A starring role [...]

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In an effort to bring relief to a horrible humanitarian situation in the eastern Congo of Africa, Sollight is partnering with New Design High School of New York and UNICEF to bring solar-powered lanterns to refugee camps and help raise money through fundraisers in Los Angeles and New York.
The project, conceived by James Long of [...]

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Every member of the SolLight team is an active, environmentally-concious individual who loves to play outside. It’s a passion and a way of life for us and we want to spotlight others who share that passion too. We call it SolLife and we’ve dedicated a section of our website to showcase people who share these [...]

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Roz Savage set out on May 25th from the San Francisco Bay on a quest to become the first women to row solo across the Pacific Ocean.  On September 1st Roz completed the first leg of her journey after three months of open ocean conditions-from raging storms, waves and wind to 99% humidity and dead [...]

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