Excessive outdoor lighting leads to light pollution, wasting energy and harming wildlife. Effective outdoor lighting directs light downwards, uses amber or orange bulbs, and keeps brightness to a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Smart lighting is the most important innovation in lighting since the invention of the lightbulb. It adds so much ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. I'm pretty firmly entrenched in the Philips Hue lighting ecosystem; over the years, my collection's grown to include lights in ...

Replacing exterior lights on your porch, patio, or garage is a quick and easy weekend project that will add major curb appeal to your home. While outdoor lighting installation isn't complicated, there ...

Thousand Hills State Park superintendent Ryan Persinger poses next to one of the park’s cabins. The flat, square light built into the cabin’s awning behind him produces less light pollution than the ...

People read outdoor lighting as a care signal. A porch that glows warmly, a path that’s easy to follow, and a house number ...

The day had finally come — well, actually the night — when I got to see my home in a new light. An LED light. I had been waiting impatiently for the eight light fixtures I ordered two months ago to ...

As you conduct your fall maintenance tasks in your yard and garden, you should also start planning for changes in your approach to outdoor lighting for winter. An important consideration for winter ...

If you've ever wanted to add a security camera to a spot where there's no outlet, Wyze may have just delivered the most plug-and-play solution yet. The company’s new Bulb Cam screws directly into any ...

Whether for convenience, security or decoration, you've got a growing number of ways to bring smart lighting to your home's exterior. Let's take a look. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is ...

Ready to turn your house into a smart home? Replacing your dumb bulbs with smart ones is perhaps the easiest way to start. Many smart bulbs can be screwed into existing light sockets, and they can be ...

Because fluorescent bulbs last so long, there may not necessarily be a rush to replace the fixtures in the next six months. Joseph Howley, manager industry relations for GE Lighting in Neela Park, ...