Outdoor Lighting Perspectives (OLP), a global architectural and landscape lighting company, has launched its newest franchise in Tulsa, Okla. (PRWeb Sep 5, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/09/prweb1282484.htm

BOULDER, CO (MARKET WIRE) Albeo Technologies, the leading provider of LED lighting products for industrial and commercial applications, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen Top 100 Winners. Inclusion in the GoingGreen 100 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in the green technology industries. Albeo was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced initial results of its lights-out program, a company-wide initiative to reduce energy consumption through more efficient use of lighting. Implemented across all of its facilities in Houston and Dallas, the company will reduce its yearly energy consumption by more than 1.4 million kilowatt hours, delivering an annual cost savings of almost $140,000. (PRWeb Sep 2, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/planet/lights/prweb1276044.htm

: Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada -- From mind-bending art cars to crazy, tricked-out bicycles, there's more than one way to get around at Burning Man. And sometimes the journey's all in your head. Left: Adrian Selkowitz rides shotgun as Anela Bence drives Boss Hog across the playa. They're just two of the five creators of the huge hog. There's a fine line between a good acid trip and a bad one, and Boss Hog snorts that line up for breakfast. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com Bikes of all shapes and sizes grace the avenues at Burning Man. The amount of energy people waste trying to figure out why someone would build these bikes actually makes them less fuel-efficient than a Hummer. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com Maya Peer peers through a kaleidoscope created by "Ivan Idea" while Micha Biterman takes a snapshot of her multiple images. The sign is both instructive and a cry for help. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com A forklift is brought in to move The Beast from Camp Apocalypse after the monstrous machine's hydraulics failed, causing a mammoth roadblock in the streets of Black Rock City. In accordance with Burning Man's archaically inhumane robot policy, The Beast will be put to sleep and thrown in a Dumpster out back, and its creators will be told that it was for the best. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com A burner turns heads as she cruises through the streets of Black Rock City on a motorized skateboard. Not pictured are the thousands of angry 13-year-olds from whose fantasies she just escaped. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com After a blazing day on the playa, burners Adam Al-Harbi (left) from California and Loren Geenberg (center) from New York come out to play in the Zorb, a hamster-wheel-type contraption powered by Logan Jackson and "Dr. Dave" from camp And Then There Is Only Love. Shortly after this photo, the Zorb became what one onlooker described as a "vomit washing-machine." : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com It's love at fur sight: A playa moment between "friends." : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com Lighting the night on fire, Katrina McFerrin, a fire dancer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, shows off her talent for the Crazy Horse Camp. McFerrin later suffered minor burns when she remembered she hadn't set up her out-of-office auto-reply and lost concentration. (Just kidding.) : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com A spectacular, pedal-powered, fire-spouting vehicle operated by burners from Camp Department of Spontaneous Combustion blazes a trail up the esplanade. And they say cars are dangerous. : Photo: Kat Wade/Wired.com Burners dance to sounds spun by Doug LePre, aka Big Daddy Doug, at Big Puffy Yellow Camp beneath the "air star" by Jim McGuire. Four 50-watt bulbs and helium create the full-moon effect, but there can be no explanation for the mumu.

FoMoCo's flagship Lincoln brand recently announced plans to produce a large soft-roader, dubbed MKT, for the 2009 calendar year. You can call MKT whatever you want- crossover, people mover, glorified wagon - just don't dare utter the SUV acronym. Hell, Mercedes classifies their similarly intentioned R-Class as a GST, or Grand Sports Tourer. With automakers striving to lower emissions and up the MPG anty, gas guzzling truck-based product connotations are the equivalent of Kevin Bacon's outlandish Rock music in Footloose .  So yes, MKT will utilize a car platform currently used by the likes of Ford Taurus, Lincoln MKS and sister vehicle/bread box Ford Flex. Considering the historically incestuous styling relationship between Ford, Lincoln and Mercury products, we were pleasantly surprised to learn that MKT won't be a Flex clone with a chrome star adorning the grille. In fact, MKT will bear resemblance to performance sedan sibling MKS and the MKT concept vehicle first shown at the Detroit Auto Show in January. "Embracing the same spirit as the concept, the Lincoln MKT's design represents harmony in motion, balancing sculptured shapes and contours traditionally associated with beautiful cars on a crossover vehicle that offers the luxury of space and efficient, powerful performance," said Peter Horbury, Ford's executive director of Design for The Americas. Navigator sales ain't what they used to be, so a more fuel efficient [sister vehicle Flex gets up to 24 MPG on the highway] offering like MKT will give Lincoln a competitive offering to square off against the likes of Buick Enclave, Mercedes R-Class and other 7-passenger luxury soft-roaders in the pipeline. In addition to a 3.7-litre V-6, MKT also will also offer an EcoBoost 3.5-litre V-6 estimated at 340 horsepower and 340 lb.-ft. of torque. Ford says EcoBoost engines, which are turbocharged and have direct injection, deliver up to 20% better fuel economy and 15% improved emissions than larger-displacement engines.  Lincoln’s MKT Concept showed Detroit show goers another application for the domestic luxury brand’s new design aesthetic. Like the MKR concept , and new MKS flagship sedan, MKT proudly bears Lincoln’s new double-wing chrome snout. And at more than 17 feet, the concept is longer than R-Class and Escalade. The production MKT will feature three rows of seating instead of the 4 first class airline-inspired, fully reclineable seats seen in the concept. Also likely not to make production is the center console with solid-state lighting technology that allows for 3D image projection onto contoured surfaces. The MKT Concept featured “upcycled” materials from SABIC Innovative Plastics. Valox iQ and Xenoy iQ resins were used in making the body, energy absorbers, wire bundles and glazing and the resins were made from discarded soft drink bottles. It remains to be see if the production version will be quite as green. MKT will be produced alongside Flex at Ford's Oakville Assembly Complex in Ontario,  Canada. Pictures from Lincoln