The City Dark is a feature documentary about light pollution and the disappearing night sky. The film follows filmmaker (and amateur astronomer) Ian Cheney, who moves to New York City from Maine and discovers an urban sky almost completely devoid of stars. He poses a deceptively simple question—“What do we lose, when we lose the night?” The ...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) kicked off the 2012 First Thursday Seminars series in February with New Lighting Technologies. The webcast is now available for 24/7 viewing. Though the webinar is intended for energy managers at federal facilities, the cutting-edge information and case studies provide ...
Lighting Internet Technology Enterprises (LITE) announced that its LED Lamp Locator website will be expanded to include a new LED fixture portal component. Located at www.LEDFixtureLocator.com, the powerful new LED Fixture Locator will provide lighting professionals with information on thousands of LED lighting fixture products currently on the ...
Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc, released the 2012 SOURCE calendar of educational classes for the lighting design community. The SOURCE offers a wide variety of seminars designed to broaden the understanding of lighting and lighting design in architectural applications. It is the industry’s leading lighting education ...
The Lighting Industry Association (LIA) was formed on January 1st 2012, from the merging of the UK's Lighting Industry Federation and the Lighting Association. The Lighting Industry Association’s mission is to strengthen the industry and promote the benefits of good quality lighting by representing all aspects of UK, EU and international ...
What kind of lighting do customers prefer in retail spaces? How can store lighting be used to raise attention levels or extend the amount of time customers spend in shops? Zumtobel has got to the bottom of these and similar questions in cooperation with prestigious research institutes during the course of laboratory research and field studies. ...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the release of the third installment in a series of four 50% Advanced Energy Design Guides (AEDGs). This latest guide will help architects, engineers, and contractors design and build highly efficient retail buildings, helping to save energy and cut store operational costs. For retail buildings 20,000 ...
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a report that documents the increased adoption of efficient lighting products in the United States over the last decade. The 2010 US Lighting Market Characterization, prepared by Navigant Consulting, helps chart progress made toward the goal of transitioning to more efficient lighting technologies ...