Lighting Industry

I’ll be at Pages Bookstore in Kensington in Calgary, AB tonight, doing a reading of my novel The Great Planet Robbery and signing copies afterwards. If you’re in the neighborhood, drop in and say hello!

Lighting Objects is a specification grade manufacturer of architectural and decorative lighting products with a specialty in custom fixtures. Give them a visit here.

Today is Veterans Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in Canada.

Susan Solomon Auerbach, executive vice president – corporate development for Generation Brands was inducted into the American Lighting Association’s (ALA) Lighting Hall of Fame on September 15 at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. As the granddaughter of Henry Siegel, founder of Sea Gull Lighting, daughter of the late Edwin Solomon and a senior executive of [...]

ZING Communications, Inc. is moving this week, so please excuse the light postings as we settle into our new home!

Philips Lumileds has opened a new office in Shanghai that is being staffed with an applications team and market specialists to support the growing number of companies in China developing solid-state lighting solutions. The applications team and specialists will support customers by providing optical, thermal and electrical LED design expertise, supporting rapid development and market [...]

The International Dark-Sky Association has announced that this year’s annual conference will be held November 14-15 at the Phoenix Wyndham Resort in Phoenix, AZ, immediately following the GreenBuild Expo. The conference program includes: Achieving the LEED Light Pollution Reduction Credit with Jim Benya, PE, FIES, FIALD, LC, LEED AP, principal of Benya Lighting Design. As [...]

Albeo Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of LED lighting systems, has announced that customers will now be able to purchase the company’s C-Series solid-state lighting systems through Grainger. Grainger will offer Albeo’s C-Series High-Bay, Linear and GarageLED, Talea undercabinet-LED, plus T8LED Troffer and T8LED Conversion Kit lighting systems. The products will be available through Grainger’s national [...]

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 [...]