SunNight Flashlights is one company that takes its social responsibility seriously. This would be true enough given only the clean, green environmentally friendly engineering of their products; solar powered flashlights that charge up during the day and provide portable light when it’s needed, minus the environmentally harmful disposable alkaline batteries of the flashlights of the past.

But SunNight doesn’t stop there. The company also offers a “Buy 1, Give 1″ promotion on their Bogo lights, wherein every with flashlight bought, one will be given away to someone disadvantaged who needs a light source and can truly benefit from one that runs off of free, renewable solar energy. But SunNight isn’t even done there. Their “Lights For Good” program aims to aid non-profit organizations who by displaying the SunNight logos on their website and providing links to the program will get a rebate of 25% of the purchase price of flashlights sold.

So why am I saying so many nice things about SunNight? Well in the interest of full disclosure, I am also about to enter their 500 Solar Flashlight Giveaway, which in a brilliant marketing scheme which I was taken in on hook, line and sinker, promises to be unfair and to favor people such as bloggers (wink, wink), influential policymakers, upper management of the Red Cross etc. I have about as much chance of figuring how I got grouped in with those people as I do of winning one of those lights - but that’s not stopping me! And it shouldn’t stop you either! But beyond the contests, free stuff and hoopla, you can takepart by checking out SunNight Flashlights and view an environmentally and socially aware company with a product that’s using the sun to light the world, even after sunset.

LINKS:

Gizmodo: SunNight Solar Giving Away 500 Free Flashlights

Zahana: Bogo Solar Flashlight Program

ErgoWeb: Solar Flashlight Delivers Luxury of Light to Poor Villages