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Greenbuild 2019, the conference and expo dedicated to green building, has issued a call for session proposals and peer reviewers.

Speaker proposals are now being accepted by the Illuminating Engineering Society for the 2019 IES Street and Area Lighting Conference, which will be held September 22-25, 2019 in San Diego.

The Illuminating Engineering Society has issued a call for speakers for its 2019 Annual Conference, which will be held August 8-10, 2019 in Louisville, KY and has the theme of Light.Affect / Light.Effect. The deadline for proposals is February 15, 2019.

On November 4, 2018, Americans reset their clocks back one hour as daylight saving time 2018 ended at 2:00 AM. In this article, National Geographic examines why we have daylight saving time and how it has affected history.

The Illuminating Engineering Society is now accepting registrations for its 2019 annual conference, which will be held August 8-10, 2019 in Louisville, KY.

The 2nd Trends in Lighting (TiL), co-hosted with the LED Professional Symposium +Expo (LpS), saw lighting designers, innovators, architects and planners come together with technologists, engineers and researchers in Bregenz, Austria. At a press conference during the event, five industry leaders spoke about the future of lighting.

Following the completion of a recent investigation of LED street lighting’s impact on sky glow, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a simplified method for comparing contributions to sky glow among lighting products. On November 8, PNNL’s Bruce Kinzey will describe and demonstrate use of the comparison tool in an hour-long webinar.

On October 25 at 2:00 pm EDT, Naomi Miller of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will examine key findings from a June 2018 Department of Energy study, An Investigation into High-Achieving LED Luminaires, in a webinar that looks at tradeoffs between efficacy, lumen output, light distribution, color temperature, and visual comfort