Category Archives: energy savings
The Big Dig’s LED Lighting Upgrade
Boston’s Big Dig is getting an LED tunnel lighting makeover! If you’ve driven on I-93 you may be familiar with the nightmare behind the Central Artery/Tunnel Project: the most expensive highway project ever undertaken, the planning and construction of which … Continue reading
Spring Clearance on LED Lights!
Now that the lovely holiday weekend’s behind us, we gotta ask: Did you start spring cleaning yet? If not, bust out your cleaning pants (you know, the ones you can’t wear outside in good consciousness) and make sure to leave … Continue reading
Weekend LED Art Project
Digital artists: Want to see your work in LED lights at the top of a famous building in Philadelphia? The University City Science Center’s Breadboard program is kicking off another year of Art in the Air. This contest offers artists … Continue reading
Heads Up + Lights Out for Earth Hour
We are a day away from Earth Hour, the global energy saving (and awareness-raising) event wherein hundreds of millions of people, businesses and governments dim or switch off their lights for one hour. Originating in Sydney, Australia, in 2007, it … Continue reading
LEDs in Lighting: A Conversation for Conservation
This year’s Strategies in Light hosted a wide range of industry bigwigs speaking at “LEDs in Lighting,” an educational track addressing obstacles to broader adoption of LED lighting, and how the technology can eventually dominate the market. Ted Ferreira, principal … Continue reading
LED Grow Lights “Let-tuce” Eat Healthy Year-Round
Patrick Henry Community College of Martinsville, Virginia has embarked on an ambitious new project involving LED lights: indoor farming! The school just welcomed the public to its Agricultural Resource Center. The center – a former Main Street storefront – is … Continue reading
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The Dallas LED PAR20 – Made in the Good Ol’ US of A
Say howdy to our latest American-made LED light bulb! Each Dallas LED PAR20 is built with 7 Cree XP-G chips – the most dependable, most efficient solution for directional lighting applications. Other LED PAR20s of similar lumen output tend to … Continue reading
Light Deprived Communities Get a Little Lift
Southwest Airlines has gone green, and is spreading the LED lighting gospel in the process! The airline – already a media darling (to some anyway) for their stance on rude, disruptive passengers – rolled out a delicious new line of … Continue reading
LED Lights for Facility Managers
Hot off the heels of Exhibitor in Las Vegas, today through Thursday LED Waves is in Baltimore for the National Facilities Management & Technology Expo. (Find LED Specialists James and Tim at NFMT Booth 1600.) The Expo gives us a … Continue reading
LED Bulbs Help Teach a Lesson in Energy Efficiency
Last Friday systems engineer Anthony Marino paid a visit to New Jersey’s Bullock School, where his presentation on energy provided third graders with some enlightenment – LED light-enment, that is! Using a Wattage meter, Marino showed students the drastic reduced … Continue reading
