Light + Health

I contributed this short article to the February 2016 issue of tED Magazine, published by the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED). Reprinted with permission. Manufacturer Zumtobel recently concluded a field study with Gerry Weber that showed an increase in sales based on a lighting solution optimized based on the personality type of the fashion [...]

EdisonReport’s Randy Reid leads a National Lighting Bureau panel including Mariana Figueiro, Kevin Kampschroer and Mary Beth Gotti. They discuss lighting’s effects on circadian health.

USAI Lighting recently published an interesting article about circadian lighting on its website. This is a big frontier in lighting, with extraordinary potential. Check it out here.

THE NEW YORK TIMES recently published an interesting article about how innovative new lighting technologies, coupled with advances in understanding between light and health, are being applied in homes, schools and businesses in a targeted way to promote sleep, foster sleep and produce other positive outcomes. Check it out here.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mariana G. Figueiro, PhD, Professor and Light and Health Program Director, Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The topic: what we know, what we don’t know, and what’s currently actionable in design concerning light and health. I’m happy to share her responses with you here. The interview informed [...]

The World Health Design website published an article about the role lighting can play in supporting calming healthcare environments that facilitate healing. Check it out here.

An estimated 50-70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep issues, according to the National Institute of Health. In honor of National Sleep Awareness Week, GE Lighting has developed a light bulb to help promote the body’s natural sleep cycle; GE Align lighting is available on Amazon.com. GE Align LED lighting technology is engineered to help [...]

This Philips video talks about how our body clock is out of sync with our alarm clock, and how light can reset the body’s clock.

At the 12th annual DOE Solid-State Lighting R&D Workshop, held January 27–29 in San Francisco, 300 attendees participated in both plenary and LED/OLED breakout sessions, with presentations from over 60 solid-state lighting experts and special opening remarks from 2014 Nobel Laureate Shuji Nakamura. One interesting presentation, authored by OSRAM SYLVANIA’s Andreas Wojtysiak, focuses on the [...]