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Product Monday: Constant-Current LED Lamp by Soraa
Equipped with a standard GU5.3 two-pin base, Soraa’s constant current MR16 LED lamp fits into any MR16 luminaire and fully conforms to the ANSI/ IECE compatible form factor. Unlike other…
Chris Brown on the Pain of Change in Lighting Distribution
Chris Brown, CEO of Wiedenbach-Brown, recently penned an interesting perspective on how change in the lighting industry may impact lighting distributors. The article begins: Five years ago, we were in…
Current Conditions EBCI Rebounds in October, but Future Conditions Index Slides
NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America improved to 58.3 in October as the share of panelists reporting improved conditions rose by a larger amount…
Calgary Tower Gets New LED Lighting
The Calgary Tower, an iconic symbol in my adopted city of Calgary, recently got new LED lighting that is impressing people across the city with impressive colorful light shows occurring…
Producing Light with Carbon Nanotubes
Even as the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes LEDs as the single most significant and disruptive energy-efficient lighting solution of today, scientists around the world continue to search for…
Product Monday: Stream by Prudential Lighting
Prudential’s Stream provides a slot lighting option with a “barely there” presence that radiates light seemingly from nowhere. Luminaires can be joined, without seams, for an uninterrupted line of light.…
Lighting Industry Roundup
The Designers Lighting Forum of New England (DLFNE) recently hosted the 2014 Boston Lights Exposition presented by Platinum Sponsor ESS Lighting. The New England lighting trade show welcomed over 1,100…
Webinar on 2014 NGL Indoor Design Competition Winners – Lessons Learned for Building Managers
On Thursday, December 4, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Alliance will host a 60-minute live webinar about the Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Design Competition and what building managers…
IES Conference Highlights
The IES Annual Conference in Pittsburgh was held November 2-4. Click here to see the sponsors. Here are some highlights courtesy of IES: Keynote speakers: Neil deGrasse Tyson led a…
My Interview with Hubbell Lighting’s Chris Bailey
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Bailey, LC, LEED AP BD+C, DDI, MIES, Director, Lighting Solutions Center, Hubbell Lighting, for an article I’m writing for TED Magazine about…
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