Ten US states have taken action to move lighting markets to LED lightbulbs. Policymakers from California, Colorado, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington – have passed ‘clean lighting bills’, advancing their transition to more efficient LED technology. Together, the ten states will...
Trojan Lighting has announced that it has introduced plastic-free packaging across its entire product range. The St Helens-based company – a specialist in energy saving and intelligent lighting and remanufacturing for the commercial, retail and public sectors – has instead adopted paper packaging to house its luminaires. ‘This...
A luminaire made from used vapes from the streets of London has been created by a designer fed up with finding the discarded electronic cigarettes in his neighbourhood. The ELFBAR vapes are disassembled, cleaned and reassembled by Matthew Kavanagh of Diplomat Design before incorporation in a...
American lighting manufacturer Lightly has followed up its acclaimed Butterfly luminaire with another ultra carbon conscious light, the Glow Direct. This suspended fixture is made primarily from wood and wool. Its housing and end caps contain no metal, plastic, or glass and are instead made from sustainably-harvested...
The environmental data specialist One Click LCA has announced that it has updated its software to comply with the latest standards from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. It says its platform will now enable design professionals to align with the new RICS whole-life carbon assessment professional...
A school in the English West Midlands has achieved lighting power efficiency of 97 per cent by using a direct-current Power-over-Ethernet connection for its lighting. Whitecroft Lighting collaborated with technology specialists Prolojik at the West Coventry Academy, one of the first Net Zero Carbon (NZC) schools...
Erco has unveiled a guide to help specifiers and lighting designers read Environmental Product Declarations. EPD are a standardised and internationally recognised form of environmental labelling for products. EPDs provide detailed information about the environmental impact of a luminaire. They are focussing on resource consumption, energy consumption...
Egg Lighting has remanufactured the luminaires at Kelvingrove Bandstand in Scotland in a project which has saved 600 kilograms of embodied carbon. The historic venue required a sustainable solution that would preserve its aesthetics. With a busy schedule of events, it would a challenge to rapidly remove,...
Halogen-based luminaires have been reused in the lighting of the King’s Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh. Originally opened in 2002 as The Queen's Gallery, EFLA Kevan Shaw Lighting Design was asked to re-design its original scheme to incorporate LED technology and adapt the lighting...
Signify has fully recycled its 3D-printed lamp shades into post-consumer recycled filament in a pilot project with specialist firm Polymaker. These filaments – which has been reformulated to compensate for the material degradation during use and recycling – were in turn used to create new shades. ‘Despite...