Industry News
What’s New for Lighting in IECC 2009?
The Lighting Controls Association has published an article I wrote on the topic of the major lighting changes in the 2009 version of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) related…
Greener Gadgets Design Competition: What’s Your Favorite Gadget?
Core77 has partnered with Greener Gadgets again to produce a design competition aimed at generating outstanding design innovations for greener electronics. They published the top 50 for online voting, and…
Stimulus Watch
Two interesting sites to check out related to the stimulus bill signed into law by President Obama yesterday. First is Reed Construction Data. Click on the banner at the top…
Construction Starts Drop 23% in January
Jim Haughey, chief economist for Reed Construction Data, writes about the January 2009 value of construction starts, excluding residential, at the Reed website here. Overall, the value of construction starts…
DOE Publishes Workshop Presentations Online for Free Download
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the workshop presentations and materials from its sixth annual DOE Solid-State Lighting R&D Workshop in San Francisco, held February 3-5, 2009. A…
The Promise of Innovation
Using Apple’s iPod as an example, new research released by a team from UC Irvine’s Merage School of Business sheds light on the debate about globalization and its impact on…
The Devaluation Effect of Globalization
Kevin Willmorth sums up the tradeoffs of globalization in his lighting and energy conservation blog. He makes the point that the U.S. economy is currently overly focused on taking profit…
Kevin Willmorth’s Frankenstein LED PAR20 Lamp
Friend, colleague and fellow blogger Kevin Willmorth, principal of Lumenique, performed an interesting experiment recently to produce an LED PAR lamp with a light pattern somewhere between an R20 spot…
“Pixel Cloud” Light Installation
Jason Bruges Studio, a UK-based studio producing interactive light sculpture and environments, was commissioned to create a lighting art feature for a 10-story atrium in Allen & Overy’s new headquarters…
Final Stimulus Package: What’s in it for the Lighting Industry?
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009–the “stimulus package”–has been passed, which includes $311 billion in appropriations. President Obama will sign the bill into law on Tuesday, February 17,…
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