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SLL launches ‘Get Curious’ programme to boost school lighting placements

The Society of Light and Lighting (SLL) has launched an initiative to encourage lighting professionals and teams to offer work placements to Key Stage...

Budget pledges £200m to accelerate EV charging roll out

Chancellor Rachel Reeves used today’s Budget to announce a multi-million-pound cash injection into accelerating the roll out of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Reeves told MPs:...

Registration open for Lighting Live Local Authority

Registration has now opened for February’s ILP Lighting Live Local Authority event in Daventry, Northamptonshire. The CPD day on 5 February will return to the...

LightingEurope LED guide gets update

LightingEurope has published an update to its guiding paper ‘Evaluating performance of LED based luminaires’. The update is the first since the paper was published...

DUTCH DEBATES

Stuart Mucklejohn reports from IEEE’s Sustainable Smart Lighting Conference held in November in Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)...

Evidence building over ‘blinding’ LED headlights

Three-quarters of AA members have said they feel LED headlights on vehicles are causing them to be “blinded” while driving. The poll follows similar concerns...

‘IF WE COME TOGETHER, WE CAN MAINSTREAM GOOD LIGHTING’

Lighting may have made progress in mitigating obtrusive light pollution, especially within highway lighting and in protecting dark sky reserves, but there is still...

LED lights on surfboards may reduce shark attacks

The conversation around LED lighting and wildlife is often focused on how to reduce the use and impact of artificial light. However, research from Australia...

Three-quarters of women change exercise behaviour after clocks change

Nearly three-quarters of women (72%) change their behaviour during the darker winter months when it comes to getting outside and staying active, a report...

Study set to measure car headlight glare

The impact of bright lights on road users is being independently investigated by the Department for Transport (DfT). Consultancy firm the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)...

Guide on designing greener sports venues

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has published a report exploring how the design of sports venues can be used to reduce carbon emissions, improve...

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SLL launches ‘Get Curious’ programme to boost school lighting placements

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Budget pledges £200m to accelerate EV charging roll out

Chancellor Rachel Reeves used today’s Budget to announce a...

Registration open for Lighting Live Local Authority

Registration has now opened for February’s ILP Lighting Live...

‘Lighting in sync’ to be at the heart of this week’s LiGHT25

The countdown is well and truly on to this...

Light pollution set to be discussed for first time at COP30

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