Street lighting is like a silent energy drain that no one pays attention to except when they are not lit. Street lighting costs the United States and other countries billions a year in maintenance, replacement of old bulbs costs and the energy to run them through the night. Without them our streets could become unfriendly and a place where accidents triumph.
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In effort to rethink the street lighting situation, and go past traditional lighting and even past the new solar, wind, turbine street lights and LED replacements, way past that to a place where trees and plants illuminate, via the power of nature's natural lighting.
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An enthusiastic group of out of the box thinkers has rethought and redesigned the way we think about lighting our streets. Over the last few years bioluminecense, the naturally occurring pigments found in plants, have been popping up all over the design world. And although we all have gotten used to many of the new options for energy saving and production, like solar, wind and hydro, is this going too far?
"What if we used trees to light our streets instead of electric street lamps?" asks Anthony Evans, one of the creators of the Glowing Plant?project. "Inspired by fireflies and aquatic bioluminescence…our team of Stanford-trained PhDs are using off-the-shelf methods to create real glowing plants."
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Decide for yourself after watching the video below and keep this in mind – "Imagination and innovation are the forces that have advanced our civilization throughout history." – Anthony Evans, Glowing Plant Kickstarter Project.
