Craig DiLouie

Ledalite’s ecoSTEP program highlights new product options and corporate initiatives that support the company’s ongoing sustainability commitments. Available in all Ledalite 2’x2′ recessed luminaires, the ecoSTEP offering delivers energy savings of 25%-35%, with 68% less mercury content, and requires less maintenance and fewer luminaires for a wide range of open plan spaces including libraries, offices [...]

The UK-based “Need Less” anti-light pollution group is now offering a free animation player that randomly plays six different clips that help raise awareness of the need to reduce light pollution and reduce energy consumption. The animation player is downloadable and can be placed on your web page to help spread the word. Check it [...]

At the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held back in June, the AMA adopted the following resolution, which can be found here (PDF, page 40). 516. ADVOCATING AND SUPPORT FOR LIGHT POLLUTION CONTROL EFFORTS AND GLARE REDUCTION FOR BOTH PUBLIC SAFETY AND ENERGY SAVINGS Introduced by Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode [...]

A group of accredited investors has invested $2.85 million in Research Frontiers Inc., the developer and licensor of SPD-Smart light-control film technology. The investors received 780,831 shares of Research Frontiers common stock at a price of $3.65 per share which was the closing market price of Research Frontiers stock on July 28, 2009, the day [...]

Energy efficiency remains America’s cheapest, cleanest, and fastest energy source for five years running. That’s the conclusion of a new study that shows that the utility cost per kWh of energy efficiency has held steady or even slightly declined at about $0.025 over the last half decade, even as the costs for new coal, nuclear, [...]

Philips Lighting has expanded its series of 60W and 140W CosmoPolis white light HID lamp/ballast systems with a new 90W model, providing higher efficiency and performance than traditional HID systems. The lamps are up to 65% smaller than competitive HID lamps and the ballasts are up to half the size.

WAC Lighting President Shelley Wang received Residential Lighting Magazine’s Industry Leadership Award on September 14 during the 2009 American Lighting Association Annual Conference held in Palos Verdes, CA. In other news, WAC Lighting Co-Founder Tai Wang was honored with the “Asian American Visionary” Award from the International Leadership Foundation at its annual gala in Washington [...]

IceTray by Peerless is a family of direct indirect/direct and perimeter luminaires providing high-performance lighting in a retro style with three baffle styles—rectangular, angular and curved. With a choice of seven distributions ranging from 80/20 to 5/95, three lamp choices and one to four lamps per cross section, IceTray is a versatile product suitable for [...]

Construction spending during July 2009 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $958 billion, 0.2% below the revised June estimate of $959.5 billion and 10.5% below the July 2009 estimate of $1,070.2 billion. During the first seven months of 2009, construction spending reached $543.8 billion, 11.4% below the $613.5 billion for the same [...]