In January 2010, D. Light Design, president of Ned Tozun product design and international sales team to lead the solar LED lights and moved to Hong Kong. The company was formally established four years, D. Light Design in over 40 countries to the global poverty-stricken areas to s ell inexpensive energy-saving LED lights, and make people\\ s lives has been a radical improvement. Branches of companies throughout the United States, India, China and Tanzania, at the same time as a social enterprise, in addition to selling products to low-income groups, they also work together to international aid agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), free of charge to Haiti, China, Pakistan, Japan, East Timor, the affected families to provide their solar-powered LED lights.
March of this year, Sam Goldman and Ned Tozun, the company\\ s two founders will transfer management responsibilities to the more experienced Donn Tice, and instead focus on products, customers and sales. Set up branches in Hong Kong, China, Ned said: \"Hong Kong is not only close a production base in Shenzhen, is also an important hub in the region, connected to the markets in Asia and Africa. In addition, the Hong Kong design talent, distributors focus for us to look for outstanding design talent and the right distributor. \"He added:\" Overall, Hong Kong is a very convenient business of an international city. We have considered other locations, but we found that Hong Kong\\ s most efficient This is very important for us to control operating expenses. \"
Origin Energy Saving, High-Tech, and public welfare
D. Light is a collection of energy saving and environmental protection (solar), high-tech (LED) and public (social enterprise), the full taste of shamisen tide elements in an enterprise. It is a typical \"college sent the body, can be traced back to the Stanford University Business School, one called\" the end of the purchasing power of design \"curriculum. This course to teach students how to apply the world\\ s best products of the design principles used to change the lives of living in the bottom of the pyramid people.
Ned said that he and Sam in the curriculum projects in 2005 and jointly founded the company Wu Xianyi, Erica Estrada, who meet. After spending a few weeks time to do research in Southeast Asia some poor villages, they found that many families put up with hardships from the more than half of the income should be used to purchase kerosene lighting caused a great deal of burden on low-income families of individuals.
In the West African nation of Benin, the company\\ s other co-founder Sam had done four years, the U.S. Peace Corps (PeaceCorps) volunteers to see locals because there is no supply of electricity and use kerosene lamps, high spending their life has changed too difficult. Sam wrote in his blog, have witnessed a neighbor\\ s son was overturned kerosene lamp burns, the project that inspired his choice of LED energy saving lamps to change the cause of the extremely poor people live.
Kerosene is an expensive and very low brightness lighting fuel, can easily result in carbon dioxide pollution and fires, could easily lead to suffocation, burns and other injuries on the human body. According to the statistics of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the main source of greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries is a dangerous and expensive kerosene fuel. A kerosene lamp in the life of five years or so will emit 1 ton of carbon dioxide. Worldwide each year, the kerosene lamp burning over 1 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere.
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