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There are no leaves on this page. We have not bought offsets, we have not printed a green logo, and we will not tell you a garden light saves the planet. What we can show you is a socket, a shorter catalog, a thicker coat of paint, and a beam that points at the ground.
The most wasteful thing about landscape lighting is how it fails. A potted fixture dies as one piece — housing, driver, lead and stake, a pound of cast aluminum and resin in the bin because a component the size of a coin gave out. Multiply that by a yard, then by a decade. We know, because from 2019 to 2024 we built lights that way.
Our answer is a socket. On the replaceable-bulb path lights and the brass and aluminum MR16 spotlights, the failure part is a stock G4, MR11 or MR16 bulb. The fixture stays in the ground; a few grams of glass and pins get replaced. Bulbs, wire, connectors and transformers are sold on their own, and every fixture is sold singly, so a system gets fixed one piece at a time instead of rebought.
The second most wasteful thing is a long catalog. Ours was, until 2024: spotlights in six wattages, bundles around whatever transformer was in stock, plastic-bodied fixtures that would not see a third summer. We retired them. What stays has to share bulbs, connectors and transformers with everything else we sell, so a bulb bought for one light fits the next. Fewer, interchangeable parts is the least glamorous environmental decision a hardware company can make. It is also the one that actually shrinks what gets thrown away.
The third is a coat of paint. Our die-cast aluminum carries a 70–100 μm powder coat, tested to 500 hours of salt spray. We specified it for three reasons, in this order. The fixture lasts longer, so it is replaced less often. It looks and feels like a finished object rather than a painted casting, so it is kept rather than swapped out. And it lets us give the same five-year warranty on the coast as inland. Brass we leave alone: it weathers to a patina, it does not rust.
Sustainability outdoors also means the sky. Light that leaves a yard upward is wasted twice — the watt, and the night. So the beams are aimed at the path, the tree or the wall, not past them. Color is held at 2700 K, the warm end that scatters least and reads like a porch bulb. Wherever a window would catch the glare, there is a shield. None of this needs a certificate to be true. You can check it from your own back step.
A durability claim is only as good as the warranty behind it, so here is ours in one line: five years on aluminum, coast included; lifetime on brass; ten years on stainless steel; one year on bulbs; residential and commercial alike. The full terms are on the warranty page.
We are not done. Part of the line still runs integrated LEDs, marked plainly on every product card, and is being rebuilt to take stock bulbs as tooling comes online — path lights first. Our packaging and our end-of-life story are unfinished work, not achievements.
What we will not claim: carbon neutrality we have not measured, recycled content we cannot trace, certifications we do not hold — dark-sky certification included, until we hold it. When any of that becomes true, it goes on this page with the paperwork. Until then: the socket, the shorter catalog, the thicker coat, and the beam that points down.
