Sheila Collis, of English-speaking Canary Islands newspaper Island Connections, said Tenerife's steady climate offered an outdoor lifestyle not available in Britain.
But that harshness makes Antarctica the perfect outdoor laboratory for testing theories about the relationship between the earth's climate and the creatures that live in the soil.
The Climate Group launched LightSavers in 2009, supported by the HSBC Climate Partnership, with the goal to accelerate the market adoption of outdoor LED lighting and smart-lighting controls.