A range of pendant luminaires made from beach waste such as fishing nets and washed-up plastic bottles has been unveiled by US firm LightArt. The Coil Seagrass and Sea Foam pendants represent an expansion of the company’s sustainable design manufactured from waste. LightArt is something of a pioneer in sustainability. It...
Staffordshire-based lighting and electrical equipment manufacturer Scolmore Group has been recognised for its sustainability efforts with a bronze medal awarded by EcoVadis. EcoVadis is one of the leading providers of business sustainability ratings and its sustainability scorecards provide a detailed insight into the environmental, social and...
Caterpillars are one of the main victims of artificial light at night, say scientists. The increased illumination gives their predators – insects and birds – an unfair advantage, leading to falling populations of moths. The researchers from Cornell University in the USA placed placed more than 550...
After 12 years and 180,000 trees, the final sapling has been planted at the Thorlux Carbon Offsetting Project at Devauden in Wales. The last one was put in the ground by retiring FW Thorpe group director David Taylor, pictured above, at the 215-acre site. The woodland – ...
Inspired by the dynamic colour-changing skin of organisms such as squid, researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a multilayered fluidic system that can reduce the energy costs of heating, cooling and lighting buildings. The platform, which optimises the wavelength, intensity and dispersion of light transmitted...
Leading European lighting manufacturer SG Lighting has installed 2,000 solar panels on the roof of its factory in Lillesand, Norway. The photovoltaic installation – which covers 7,200 square metres – represents one of the most ambitious PV projects in the industry. The panels have an estimated annual...
The Low Energy Transformation Initiative has published a specification and procurement guide to support lighting and other designers and contractors ‘who are facing the difficult task of trying to reduce embodied carbon without a clear roadmap to follow’. LETI, formerly known as the London Energy Transformation...
Signify says it is on its way to doubling its positive impact on the environment and society while remaining carbon neutral. New figures reveal that having reduced its operational carbon footprint by more than 70 per cent over the last decade, the company said. It says it...
Product designer and environmental expert Simon Fisher tells Circular Lighting Report editor Ray Molony about his plans for the next programme of Recolight’s workshops on luminaire design. ‘It’s going to be developed to be a far more focused workshop around environmental and circular metrics,’ says Fisher....
A sustainable metric dubbed lighting application efficacy has been developed in a US Government-funded research project. The new measure – designed to quantify lighting use in a building – takes into account how useful the delivered light is in a space. Dr Dorukalp Durmus, assistant professor at...