Heading home from a week working with Seoul Semicon and visiting Light + Build 22. Wonderful to see lighting effects first hand, raise a glass with old friends and make some new ones. Some slightly surreal encounters as I realised that faces and voices I know well on screen have arms and legs too! Strolling […]
Green isn’t just a colour… Read More »
The 1% club… A phrase inspired by the celebrated approach of British Olympic cycling team coach Steve Brailsford. He analysed every element of the race to find marginal improvements that add up overall to a big win. That approach can be applied to lighting too. The basic principles of a healthy diet of light are not
The cost of electricity is going through the roof. Tough times ahead for us all. But there may be a silver lining in environmental terms as my guest in the online panel debate this afternoon, Thursday 15th September at 4pm UK time (Drivers for Change: ESG – Can Light Really Boostt Environmental Performance? ) UN Special
As the evenings draw in and the seas get a bit rough (still warm though!) here are some papers about managing that shift back to school after the summer break … Unsung heroes… As billions of students around the world flood back to school, spare a thought for their teachers. Lockdown ‘home schooling’ gave us
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Every lighting catalogue boasts a ‘circadian’ option. But examples of successful businesses investing in a truly ‘human centred’ lighting solution are vanishingly rare. Perhaps not surprising. None of the standards demand it. Evidence is patchy and inconsistent. And a tunable light source is just an expensive gadget if it’s stuck in the same place as
Is circadian lighting really worth the money? Read More »
It’s tempting to stay in our cosy bubble with other ‘good’ people who are sold on the value of good-quality lighting and even perhaps, ‘Human Centred Lighting’ – by which I mean Kevin Houser’s simple and balanced definition as lighting that ‘considers the visual and non-visual effects of light in support of positive human outcomes’…
Why spending money on fancy lights is a harbinger of failure… Read More »
The average home in the UK is over 50 years old. In the USA it’s over 35. They were designed before the internet or laptops – if you can imagine that – when we went out to the office and came home to fall into bed. Nearly half of all men and almost one-third of
Love your healthy, happy home? Read More »
Most of us will begin and end our lives in hospital. Many of the most important conversations we will ever have take place in a clinical setting. And yet the lighting does not help. There were 1.5 million admissions to NHS hospitals In England between July and September last year (source). And over 418,000 people
Helping your patients to heal? Read More »
Dear friends Well this is newsletter number 52 – which makes it our first birthday! Thank you so much for your company. I’ve had so many conversations about how great light and lighting can help us be healthier / happier / get more done, I’ve decided to put some of it together in a book. The
Poll results: what counts most? Read More »
Lighting can transform your teams’ ability to perform – from their ability to see to their mood and motivation, 80% of employees said that they valued lighting – and 9% say that bad lighting stops them getting on with the job. People can be up to 90% of a business expense, Some would say that
Building a great place to work? Read More »