Green Companies

What we can we say; we here at Elemental have pretty amazing friends. Some in particular are the people behind Laguna Beach, CA-based industrial design and lighting manufacturing firm, The Cerno Group. The company’s three founders (one of whom attended the University of Colorado with Elemental LED founder, Max Darling), have developed a well-rounded design Learn More

Car lovers rejoice! Audi just released specs, pictures and info about its 2011 Audi A8 and select lucky viewers got to glimpse the car in person at the star-studded Miami design week! Not only is the sedan as sleek and powerful as ever, it’s also planet-friendly. One important reason that the car is greener than Learn More

The media engineering department of Elemental (i.e. me) recently moved to Portland, Oregon, where it’s maybe more rare to see LED light fixtures than in the Bay Area. So imagine my surprise when, for the third time this year, I noticed LED lights poking their head out of the live music world.

The day-after-Thanksgiving-shopping-mayhem known as Black Friday has officially come and gone, but the repercussions (or shall we say benefits) of all that purchasing will be felt for months. According to the 2009 holiday survey by Pricegrabber.com, 45 percent of consumers were planning to shop on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with 80 percent planning to Learn More

Well, we knew it would happen someday. Now when you’re crossing the street to go to the other Starbucks because the Starbucks you were just in was out of coffee cup lids, you can rest assured that the company is doing something good for the environment where lighting is concerned. Starbucks just announced that it Learn More

Wow, it’s a close game.

It’s the bottom of the 7th inning in the 5th game of the American League Championships series, the Anaheim Angles versus the New York Yankees. The Yankees lead the series 3 to 1. In this game, they just scored 6 runs in the top of the 7th to put themselves back Learn More

We’ve all heard of the Green Revolution-even during the current economic crisis, all things “green” still seem to be a safe place to invest your, well, green. A key indicator of this trend is the way the government reacts to and becomes involved in it, and recent news reveals that government organizations are more Learn More

With all of the toy options out there these days, it’s hard to know which ones to pick for your child-you want something that’s going to keep Junior safe and entertained, while maintaining your sanity and checking account. And with the electronic toy industry growing by leaps and bounds, it’s becoming even more difficult to Learn More

Elemental LED Makes a Name for Itself at Maker Faire 2009
We are thrilled to announce that Elemental LED’s first tradeshow experience went off without a hitch! Maker Faire 2009, the country’s largest do-it-yourself festival, provided our first opportunity to display, demonstrate and get creative with our products in a public arena. And did we ever! Learn More

When we hear the phrase “efficient lighting,” most often we think of energy efficiency-lighting that gives you a lot of bang for your buck and doesn’t take an entire oil well to power. But another important aspect of lighting is how efficiently it lights a space or surface. While it’s true that there are circumstances Learn More