A new study from University College London (UCL) is suggesting that people of a certain age could improve their eyesight by staring into a deep red light for three minutes a day. The research is published in the Journals of Gerontology and could help the 12 million people in the UK aged over 65. Prof. …
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Lora is a Senior Lighting Designer with BDP. She represents a new class of lighting designer that we’re now seeing in the industry, who is fully educated through her Bachelor’s Degree and Masters qualifications in Lighting Design. She presented her MSc paper on Saturated Coloured Light at the Professional Lighting Design Convention 2011, in Madrid …
Did it really have to be like this? Imagine that Mother Watt had just clipped young Jimmy’s ear and told him to leave her kettle alone and get out from under her feet. We are all too aware of what happened as a consequence of working out the potential power of steam – it’s all …
I’m sitting at my desk on the hottest day of the year (so far – who knows what might happen between now and Xmas). Where I really want to be is walking in some dense woodland where I can bury my head in the green-leafery, breathing in all that sappy moisture. Maybe, at the very …
Lighting Living Walls: finding the best white light for the job. Read More »
Life gets exciting when you can join up the dots . . . it suggests that you might be on to something. Back in January (remember then?) I wrote an article asking how The Circular Economy would actually work. My argument is that we will need third-party agencies to manage the flow of reusable LED …
. Industry experts in sustainability and product design discuss how the lighting sector can address its environmental impact WHEN: TUESDAY 14 JULY 11:00 to 12:30 BST In the second online conference on Lighting and the Circular Economy, organised by Recolight, speakers will challenge the industry to set ambitious goals and explore how innovative product design …
When I first got involved in sustainability in the lighting industry – a decade ago – the standing joke at the time was that, if you wanted to invest in a surefire business success, buy into landfill. Oh, how we laughed. The only role model we had for such an idea was Dickens’ John Harmon, …
We recently published an article by Chris Fordham, in conversation with Ice Architect Luca Roncoroni, talking about the Icehotel in Sweden. Fortunately for those of us who weren’t there, Chris recorded the conversation and took the nuggets our of his chat with Luca for the argticle. But looking back at the conversation in its entirety we think that …
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The European WEEE Registers Network (EWRN) this week released a report that strongly condemns online marketplaces for the high level of WEEE non-compliance. The EWRN is an independent network of governmental organisations, such as the EA in England, that maintain official registers of WEEE compliant companies in countries across Europe. The strongly worded report states …
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