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Braemar Energy Ventures Invests in Fulham
Braemar Energy Ventures, a venture capital fund making early- to mid-stage investments in the energy technology sector, recently announced a $10 million investment in Fulham, an assembler and distributor of…
Philips Introduces 49W T5HO Lamp
The T8 lamp has been around longer than the T5 lamp and is a bigger market, so there are more offerings. Now we are seeing T5 technology diversifying. For example,…
Is Anybody Home at Lighting.com?
Lighting.com was founded in the 1990s and has since endeavored to serve as a portal for the lighting community. I buy advertising in their newsletter for one of my clients.…
Message from Marsha Turner, IALD Exec. VP, on Texas HB2649
Excerpted from IALD Reflections, the newsletter of the IALD: Thank you, all of you, who took the time to weigh in on this issue. Your efforts, and those of our…
Texas Regulation of Lighting Design: What’s Next
I got an email this morning explaining why Senator Averitt added the language to the bill. Apparently, residential builders and owners in the Senator’s district had complained about people representing…
May Issue of LightNOW Newsletter Published
Another happy LightNOW subscriber.Check out the month’s stories here. The newsletter typically goes from around the 25-28 of the previous month to the 25-28 of the current month, depending on…
Bega’s “Urban Furniture”
BEGA/US has introduced the Urban Furniture bollard to provide robust, glare-free, wide light distribution for parks, schools and public spaces. The luminaire uses a 39W ceramic metal halide lamp, operates…
Lighting Design Profession Wins: Texas HB2649 to be Amended (updated)
Good news! It’s confirmed: The “lighting designer” language in Texas House Bill 2649 will be withdrawn and replaced with language requesting a study by the Texas Department of Licensing &…
Keep Up The Pressure on Texas HB2649 (updated)
Your voice has been heard. There have been hundreds of phone calls, letters and emails over the past 48 hours about this potentially disastrous bill. Now here’s an update for…
JoAnne Lindsley’s Letter to Texas Representative Wayne Smith
I was copied on this letter that JoAnne Lindsley, a leading lighting designer, past president of IALD and principal of Lindsley Consultants Inc., wrote to Texas Representative Wayne Smith about…
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