ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT // LEGISLATION + REGULATION

Ontario Canada Mandates Lamp Recycling Requirements
For Manufacturers

Effective January 1, 2023, lamp/bulb manufacturers have new “extended producer responsibility” requirements in Ontario, Canada, for end-of-life management of “lighting” under Ontario Regulation 522/20: Electrical and Electronic Equipment …
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LIGHTING INDUSTRY // PRODUCTS + TECHNOLOGY

Lighting and Innovation Part Two of Four: It Takes a Stack

This is the second post in a four-part series on Lighting and Innovation by guest author Clifton Stanley Lemon.
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EVENTS // LIGHTING INDUSTRY

LightFair Update

LIGHT + HEALTH // RESEARCH

Important New Research Shows Light Therapy Could Reduce Heart Disease

Researchers at the University of Buffalo have published a study demonstrating that light therapy reduces heart disease in mice. If these results hold true in human trials, this could be…
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CRAIG'S LIGHTING ARTICLES // INTERVIEWS + OPINION

Acuity’s Daren Hatfield Talks Field-Replaceable LED Drivers

[Editor's Note: Craig DiLouie] I recently had the opportunity to interview Daren Hatfield, Director of Marketing – Digital Lighting Components,Acuity Brands for an article I'm developing for the May 2023 issue of tED Magazine,…
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CODES + STANDARDS

Energy Star Releases Timeline To Sunset Most Lighting
But Launches Downlight Category

On March 13th, U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR program issued a memo with final decisions about sunsetting of the ENERGY STAR lighting programs. Here are the major takeaways from the decision…
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PRODUCTS + TECHNOLOGY // RESEARCH

Lumens Develops Stacked R-G-B MicroLEDs

Korean micro-LED manufacturer, Lumens, announced in January the development of R-G-B micro-LEDs grown in a stack, on a single wafer / substrate (aka monolithic). The benefits of this approach include…
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CRAIG'S LIGHTING ARTICLES // INTERVIEWS + OPINION

BriteSwitch’s Leendert Jan Ethoven Talks
Lighting Rebate Trends

[Editor's Note: Craig DiLouie] For a feature to be published in Electrical Contractor’s April issue, I recently had the opportunity to interview Leendert Jan Enthoven, President, BriteSwitch, a rebate fulfillment firm, whose North American…
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CRAIG'S LIGHTING ARTICLES // LEGISLATION + REGULATION

Ban The (Fluorescent) Bulb?

[Editor's Note: Craig DiLouie] In September 2022, California banned the sale and distribution of certain fluorescent lamps over the next few years. In doing so, the state joined Vermont, the European Union, and soon,…
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PRODUCTS + TECHNOLOGY // RESEARCH

Researchers Demonstrate Light Filtering Windows
That Biomimic Squid Skin

Researchers at the University of Toronto demonstrated a window technology that utilizes multiple layers of plastic sheets that can be filled with different pigments to selectively filter infrared (IR) heat…
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