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  Administrators at the Cherokee Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona are hoping that LED light fixtures will help students focus more; particularly special education students.   Educators found that students in the special education classes were often bothered or distracted from the continuous flickering and buzzing of fluorescent lighting. To fix this, the classrooms were […]

  Add two more to the list of cities that have switched to LED. Eden Prairie and Brooklyn Park are two communities in Minnesota that are making the switch from traditional streetlights to modern, more efficient LED models.   The street superintendent for Brooklyn Park says that the retrofit of 4,300 lights will save the […]

NASA is making a change on the International Space Station to help the astronauts sleep more soundly, combat insomnia which can trigger depression or sickness. “NASA is preparing to replace the station’s florescent panel lights with solid-state lighting modules that would dim and change hues between colors to reflect the time of day.” See the […]

As 2012 comes to a close, let’s take a look back at some lighting developments of the year. The year began with the phase-out of the incandescent light bulb, and the subsequent ban of common T12 bulbs. And as the era of inefficient lighting ended it passed the torch to newer, more efficient replacements including T8s […]

According to a new study, the widespread adoption of LED lamps will create a global energy savings worth $100 billion over the next five years. IMS Research found that a rapid uptake of retrofit LED lamps has a huge potential market. On average, lighting accounts for about 19 percent of the world’s current energy usage. […]