Category Archives for going green
Carbon credits
Singapore, 10th February 2011 Today I read an article in the newspaper that Singapore has embarked on a program to generate carbon credits. The program consists of replacing current fluorescent lights in housing flats (HDB) to LED equivalents. It is … Continue reading
Deepavali
Singapore 8th October 2010 Deepavali also known as Diwali, is the Indian festival of lights, a Hindu celebration of the triumph of light over dark or good over evil. According to Wikkipedia it officially means row of lamps in reference … Continue reading
Green initiatives
Singapore 12th September 2010 Some subjects become repetitive, but then so is our life! I am not talking about ground hog day, but about issues regarding lighting and more specifically those “green” ones to safeguard our environment. I have blogged about … Continue reading
Eco Highways
Singapore 21st August 2010 While the Australians go to the polls today to choose whether to keep Julia Gillard as Australia’s first female prime minister or to opt for the opposition leader Tony Abbott, attempts to make our world a … Continue reading
Back to basics
France 4th August 2010 At the moment I am pretty much getting up when the sun rises and go to bed at sunset, sometimes even earlier. This is because of the summer time here with the sun coming up around … Continue reading
Environmental sustainability
Singapore 25th July 2010 Sustainability is obviously one of the trendy subjects wherever you go, whether you read a magazine, see it in one of those “green” TV programs or your client is mentioning it as part of your design … Continue reading
Solar power 2
Singapore, 9th July 2010 Today I read about a historic flight of the first fully solar powered airplane. The breakthrough event was not so much the fact that the plane, a glider type airplane design with a (solar) wing span … Continue reading
Luminescence
Shanghai, 7th June 2010 Have you ever seen those “glow-in-the dark” insects? And those stick on cut outs of the moon and the stars you can paste on your ceiling and which glow after you switch of the light. Kids … Continue reading
Sustainable design
Perth, 26th May 2010 Sustainability is the catch word in any project nowadays, isn’t it? But what really is sustainable design, or more precisely sustainable lighting design in our case? Sometimes I have the idea that people use the term … Continue reading
Earth Day 2010
Singapore, 23rd April 2010 Yesterday was Earth Day 2010, the 40th Anniversary of the Earth Day Network. I previously blogged about Earth Hour held not so long ago, but this environmental network has been around much longer. I have to … Continue reading
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