The Environmental Benefits Of LED Lights
Posted by Amit Soni on 8th May 2012
Every product we use has consequences for the environment, and light bulbs are no exception.
The term for this is a “Carbon Footprint” and, by switching to LED lights and bulbs to provide your primary source of illumination, you can ensure that yours is as small as possible and that you do minimal harm to the environment, both while your bulbs are in use and during their entire lif
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The Case For LED Lighting In Social Housing
Posted by Amit Soni on 28th Mar 2012
The Energy Saving Trust (EST) is a non-profit organisation that has tasked itself with providing free, impartial advice on energy saving practices.
Back in 2009, they received government funding to run trials of LED lighting – in order to show once and for all that LEDs could deliver on their promises of reducing energy consumption and cost.
The trial focused primarily on the
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University Adopts LEDs To Become Even More Enlightened
Posted by Richard Clarke on 27th Mar 2012
Our universities are amongst the finest in the world. Historical seats of learning, they have been beacons of enlightenment, some for hundreds of years.But in these times of spiralling energy costs, are they doing everything they can to combat wastefulness and profligacy, and to instil high environmental ideals in the minds of their students?A Surprising DevelopmentOn first examination, it would a
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