Most of the money will go to widen pavements, plant trees and install antique-looking streetlights.
After Hurricane Andrew in 1992, PV systems were brought in to provide power to shelters and streetlights.
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Light-emitting diodes have progressed from simple red indicators on electronic products to become torches, streetlights and car headlights.
Today Main Street features elegant streetlights and lots of red brick, Berkes reports.
But he found that a network of the city's anti-crime cameras, mounted on streetlights, was still pretty much intact.
The streetlights, perhaps the single most important and overlooked part of this normally well-run city surface, were all out.
Bhutto said streetlights on the route were not working, which hindered security guards.
Streetlights have been turned back on at five of the 46 Buckinghamshire locations that were part of a three-year switch-off trial.
Cars splash through pond-sized puddles on the main street in front of the ruined streetlights of the looming House of Culture.
Streetlights across the whole of Dorset will be switched off at night, despite some residents saying it makes them feel unsafe.
The 802.11b standard uses the unregulated 2.4 gigahertz radio band, which is already overloaded with cordless phones, microwave ovens and streetlights.
The fact is that there are precisely no streetlights to give even the vaguest hint as to which way the road goes.
Or streetlights are still out and the neighborhood is dark and deserted.
University Place, with just eight miles, has built 146 acres of parks, planted thousands of trees, developed a police department, sidewalks and streetlights.
The latter development using sound from a noisy highway to generate power, perhaps for streetlights is just one potential use of the technology.
Some streetlights in Mexico City stopped working, and scores of homes and buildings in Mexico City suffered from cracks, particularly in the capital's chic Condesa neighborhood.
But Coach will tell you, when them streetlights come on, his ass got to be right back here: Nine o'clock, he's got to be in the house.
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People locally got excited last fall when the city council decided to turn off 70 streetlights to save money but that didn't bring CNN or the Today Show.
Scottsburg was able to purchase the LEPs for its streetlights thanks to funds from the U.S. federal stimulus package that went to the Indiana Municipal Power Agency.
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There have few instances of cuts such as turning off streetlights overnight, even if some councils have been looking at how they can make the service more efficient.
The film's attraction (such as it is) isn't found in story, but in decoration: the blue-filtered chiaroscuro and etch-y comic book compositions, how the snow glints under the streetlights.
Janet Dover, Lib Dem county councillor for Colehill, where all streetlights are being switched off in the next few days, says she is worried about traffic calming measures being unlit.
Light pollution can come from TV and computer screens, other electronic displays and ambient sources such as streetlights, passing traffic and neighboring buildings, in addition to overhead lighting within the home.
This energy-starved nation rolled out the red carpet for their American guests by switching on the streetlights and lighting monuments along the route from the concert hall to the hotel where the orchestra was staying.
Until then, they were fairly boring things, with most people understanding how they worked only because their neighborhood streetlights went on when they sensed darkness, smoke detectors sounded alarms and fire trucks beeped because motion sensors understood when they were backing up.
Echelon recently announced a number of new initiatives, such as McDonald's use of LonWorks to network its restaurant kitchen equipment, a trial in the U.K. to remotely control and monitor streetlights, and a partnership with EnerNOC to control supermarket lighting, refrigeration and air conditioning units.
Some improvements are fairly easy, such as switching to energy-efficient LED lighting in buildings and streetlights, or setting aside bike lanes and widening sidewalks to encourage alternatives to driving (although such moves aren't without political hazards, as a recent battle over bike lanes in New York shows).
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