In a bid to save money, Dorset County Council has announced that almost 800 street lights in the town of Swanage will be turned off between midnight and 05:30 from next month. It is hoped that the move will help the council to save ...
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The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) is hosting a challenge at the House Next Door, situated in London's Jewish Quarter, which will give expert lighting designers the chance to attempt to light an entire house with ...
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Bath and North East Somerset Council has announced that it will be consulting local resident associations and heritage groups in order to ascertain the best way to roll out its new LED lighting development of the World Heritage-listed City ...
Designer Liam Fahy has designed a pair of shoes that has quite literally lit up the London Fashion Week catwalk over the last few days, as they are embedded with crystal LED lights. The Daily Mail reported that the designer's collection ...
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Residents of the East Sussex town of Battle have been invited to give their views on proposals that would see streetlights switched off during the night. Battle Town Council wants to power down its lighting between midnight and 05:30 in ...
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The findings of a study by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have highlighted the huge benefits that can be reaped by making a switch to energy-efficient lighting. Using Africa as a case study, the report notes that if Kenya ...
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The government's flagship Green Deal programme to transform the energy efficiency of the UK's buildings and homes was launched earlier this week (January 28th) but not everyone is convinced it will be a success. It promises to allow ...
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Politicians have attacked the "crazy" situation which sees north Watford road signs illuminated all night, while dangerous bends are left in darkness by the streetlight switch-off. Hertfordshire County Council introduced a part-night ...
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LED lighting is becoming an increasingly popular and energy efficient way of illuminating the home and your business. In the last few years, people have begun to become much more clued up as to the monetary savings that can be made by ...
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A'living wall'is not normally a situation most homeowners would welcome."Oh,the wall is alive,"you think."Best call either the damp-proofers or Ghostbusters." However,a living wall could well just be the next big thing in interior ...
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Gardening is easy,right:plant a few daffodils,mow the lawn,bit of white plastic garden furniture,done. But while that might do for an outdoor area to scrabble around after a football in with the kids or unwind in a deckchair on a rare ...
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The future is happening all around us,and while it will be filled hopefully with flying cars and robot servants,it will also be filled with people.Lots and lots of people-according to demographic experts,some ten billion of them by 2050.And ...
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Listen up,punks:it's time for a criminological theory lesson.In 1982,social scientist James Q.Wilson proposed that urban disorder and vandalism had an effect on wider crime and anti-social behaviour rates in major inner cities.He stated ...
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