Sustainability

Slow Design: an introduction

At PLDC 2019, in Rotterdam, the audience was introduced to the principle of ‘slow design’. Dr. Amardeep Dugar, ably assisted […]

Recolight: disturbing news on scale of WEEE non-compliance

Disturbing EU-wide scale of WEEE non-compliance through online marketplaces The results of a multi-national study into non-compliance of product sold […]

Recycling isn’t always the right answer

It might seem strange for the CEO of a recycling scheme to argue that recycling is not always the right […]

The Future for the Circular Economy

I sat down with Simon Fisher of F Mark the other day and we talked about where lighting product design […]

Can I borrow your pen?

Last week I wrote about the Climate Change Challenge and its good to see that everyone’s keeping their heads down, […]

The Climate Crisis Challenge

Usually, when the lighting industry goes quiet over something its for one of two reasons; expect a mass launch of […]

Recolight: A WEEE update for lighting

Good things are happening with the WEEE regulations, all contributing to a fairer and more sustainable system. Nigel Harvey of […]

Lighting as a Service to enable circular economy

I bumped into Fred Bass at Futurebuild. The conversation, as it always does, came round to what was new in […]