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2010-02-08 Email Wire

Grants Available For Non-Profits To Install Energy Efficient Lighting

Nationwide program assists schools, churches, charities, and other NPOs February 8, 2010 /EIN PRESSWIRE/ -- A new nationwide grant program will provide qualifying Non-Profit Organizations with thousands of dollars in cash allowances and services for the purpose of installing new energy efficient lighting...

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2010-02-05 South Bend Tribune

Light pollution takes its toll on sky -- and pocketbook

The 2009 International Year of Astronomy commemorated the 400th anniversary of Galileo's making and looking through his first telescope. New tool in hand, he asserted the moon was an imperfect orb, the Milky Way was the collective light from countless stars, and Earth was no longer the immutable center of...

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2010-02-05 South Bend Tribune

Light pollution takes its toll on sky -- and pocketbook

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2010-02-04 Tec Trends

Underwriters Laboratories Acquires Luminaire Testing Laboratory

NORTHBROOK, Ill., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL) announced today that it has acquired Luminaire Testing Laboratory (LTL), based in Allentown, PA.

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2010-02-04 ANSI

Standards Score a Touchdown for Super Bowl Sunday

This Sunday the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints will face off in Super Bowl XLIV. The pinnacle of the football season in the U.S., the Super Bowl brings together tens of thousands of fans in person and millions more through television broadcasts.

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2010-02-04 EDN

DOE introduces lighting-facts label

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2010-02-03 The Architect's Newspaper

IES Illumination Awards

The IES Illumination Awards (formerly the International Illumination Design Awards) provides a unique opportunity for public recognition of professionalism, ingenuity, and originality in lighting design based upon the individual merit of each entry judged against specific criteria.

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2010-02-03 PR-USA.net

Haitian Relief Efforts Improve as Donated Solar Lights Are Installed

Sol, Inc.'s solar lights are shining brightly all night long, expanding relief and recovery efforts at several Port-au-Prince sites following the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010.

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2010-02-03 PR-USA.net

Haitian Relief Efforts Improve as Donated Solar Lights Are Installed

Sol, Inc.'s solar lights are shining brightly all night long, expanding relief and recovery efforts at several Port-au-Prince sites following the devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010.

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2010-02-02 R & D Magazine

EPA and DOE Join States to Speed Energy Efficiency Progress in the United States

WASHINGTON As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to increasing energy efficiency and reducing costs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.

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2010-02-01 The Huffington Post (Blog)

Obama's 2011 budget: what's in it for the clean energy sector

President Obama unveiled his 2011 budget today requesting from Congress a multi-trillion dollar spending plan for the federal government. The spending bill is seeking a record-breaking $1.

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2010-02-01 TFM

February 1st, 2010

Student Involvement Reduces Energy Use On...

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2010-02-01 Tree Hugger

OLEDs: Where We'll See Them, and What Will Beat Them

by Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California on 02. 1.10 Science & Technology Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) have been the talk of green lighting and display for what feels like ages now.

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2010-02-01 Sierra Sun

Truckee Tahoe Airport looking at night sky lighting standards

TRUCKEE, Calif. With new technology like compact flourescents and LEDs making their way into homes and businesses, many people are saving money on power bills as they upgrade their lights.

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2010-01-31 DoItyourself

4 Types of Incandescent Light Bulbs Explained

With so many kinds of incandescent light bulbs available, shopping for one can become a confusing and frustrating task. Thus, it is important to know which type best suits your needs before hitting your local hardware store or placing an order on the Internet.

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2010-01-30 Article Motron

U.S. Government Grants for Alternative Energy

President George W. Bush called, in his State of the Union Address for 2007, for a 22% growth in federal grants for research and development of alternative energy.

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2010-01-30 Articles.DirectoryM.com

Outdoor Lighting Glossary

Here you will find outdoor lighting glossary terms. The following was sourced from ProLighting. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) - The Organization that develops voluntary guidelins and product performance standards for the electrical and other industries.

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2010-01-29 Popular Mechanics

Virginia Tech's Lumenhaus Wows Crowds in Times Square

After a solid performance at the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C., the solar-powered, net-zero home built by the Virginia Tech Hokies travels to New York's Times Square for a public reception on Broadwayand it's a hit.

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2010-01-26 WIBW

The Light Bulb Goes Digital

The $100 billion global lighting industry is undergoing radical change: New office buildings and retail outlets are abandoning fluorescent lighting in favor of LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, those tiny, energy-efficient, long-lasting, and blindingly bright points of light.

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2010-01-26 PPG Industries

PPG wins grant to develop new glass technology for OLED lighting

U.S. Department of Energy funds $1.

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2010-01-26 PlantServices.com

NEMA members awarded advanced energy manufacturing tax credits

Several member companies of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) have been awarded a total of more than $120 million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding.

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2010-01-26 Wellsphere

California Town Receives Rare Award for Fighting Light Pollution

As students, we all learned about the Milky Way, Orions Belt, and the North Star. What would happen if these important points in our sky disappeared? In some places, they have.

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2010-01-26 Foxreno.com

When It Comes To Good Lighting, The Future Is Now

Content Provided By American Lighting...

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2010-01-25 Signshop Network

LIGHTFAIR® International Reaches Out to the Industrys Future, Offers New Programs for 2010

Atlanta, GeorgiaThe future of the lighting industry lies with the students of today, and LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI) has established a program to create a path for tomorrows leaders: the LFI Student Outreach Program.

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2010-01-25 Light Board

Lightfair International Expands Renowned Conference Program in 2010

Basic...

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2010-01-25 Individual.com

Frost & Sullivan Forecasts a Quick Recovery for the European Energy Efficient Lighting Market in 2011

Greater emphasis on energy savings in the lighting sector and new legislation on phasing out inefficient lighting will help the European energy efficient lighting (EEL) market bounce back from negative growth by 2010.

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2010-01-25 The Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News

Jan. 25, 2010: ASHRAE Publishes New High-Performance Green Building Standard

ATLANTA A new standard for the design of high-performance green buildings has been published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), in conjunction with the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) and the U.

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2010-01-22 Greenville Spartanburg Anderson Technology Council

GE Lighting Combines LED and Fixture Businesses to Form GE Lighting Solutions

GE Lighting, a unit of GE Appliances & Lighting, continues a reshaping effort designed to better serve customers and enable profitable growth with the establishment of GE Lighting Solutions, a combination of its light-emitting diode (LED) systems operation, Lumination, based at GE Lightings world...

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2010-01-21 Individual.com

Lutron Launches 2010 Total Light Management Roadshow

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. is hitting the road with the 2010 Total Light Management Roadshow -- a series of educational sessions focused on the benefits of light control in today's energy-focused world.

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2010-01-21 eXaminer.com

Green Lighting your Projects in NYC

Are you in the lighting business in New York? And are you interested in going green? Green Light New York is a new non-profit dedicated to providing the citys design, construction and real estate communities with training and resources on energy efficient lighting technologies.

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2010-01-21 Tree Hugger

US East Coast could generate more than a fifth of electricity from wind by 2024

The study echoes a similar July 2008 report from the US Department of Energy (DOE) which assessed the costs, challenges, impacts and benefits of wind generation providing 20 per cent of the USA's electricity and found that the costs would be more than offset.

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2010-01-20 UC Davis News and Information

UC Davis 'Green' Lighting Center Gets Bigger, Smarter and $10M in New Grants

At just five years old, the California Lighting Technology Center at UC Davis has so many successful projects under way that it has moved into a new facility with twice the space.

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2010-01-20 GreenSource

Two-Faced: Despite differing appearances, the broadest elevations of the Zuckerman Research Center both aim to maximize daylight without the heat gain

The density of New York City is unforgiving: Site constraints on the Upper East Side forced Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to design the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Research Center with east and west exposures far broader than the elevation facing south.

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2010-01-20 Sustainable Facility

NEMA Publishes BL 2-2009 Energy Efficiency for Electronic Ballasts for T8 Fluorescent Lamps

Rosslyn, Va. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published BL 2-2009Energy Efficiency for Electronic Ballasts for T8 Fluorescent Lamps.

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2010-01-20 Light Board

LEWIS ELECTED CHAIR OF NATIONAL LIGHTING BUREAU

Silver Spring, MDHoward P. Lewis, representing the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES), has been elected chair of the National Lighting Bureau. The Bureau is an independent, not-for-profit, lighting-education organization sponsored by professional societies, trade associations,...

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2010-01-19 TransWorldNews

GE Lighting Establishes GE Lighting Solutions

GE Lighting has announced the establishment of GE Lighting Solutions by combining its light emitting diode (LED) systems operations Lumination, and its commercial and industrial fixture group GE Lighting Systems.

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2010-01-18 R & D Magazine

Germany Starts R+D Program Developing OLED Displays and Lighting Applications

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for a total period of three years, So-Light (Special organic Light) will focus on specific OLED applications, such as special lighting systems and displays.

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2010-01-14 High Profile Blog

ASHRAE launches pilot phase of its energy labeling program

The Building Energy Quotient program, or Building EQ, will examine energy use for all building types except residential. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Enginee (ASHRAE) has launched the pilot phase of a new building energy labeling program.

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2010-01-14 NEMA

NEMA Members Awarded Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits

ROSSLYN, Va.Several member companies of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) have been awarded a total of more than $120 million of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding.

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2010-01-14 Paintsquare

New Web Page Offers Details on Green Standard 189.1

ASHRAE announced the launch of a webpage that provides detailed information about Proposed Standard 189.1, described as the nations first code-intended standard for high-performance green buildings.

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2010-01-14 TFM

January 14th, 2010

AEDG for Small Hospitals and Healthcare...

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2010-01-13 Architect's Guide to Glass

Welcome to the New Decade

There is something about the dawn of a new decade, which seems to hold out the promise of good things. We have ushered in 2010, but prospects dont look immediately bright for the architectural construction market.

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2010-01-13 Thomas Net News

US DoT Manual references several ANSI-accredited SDOs.

- As example of public sector reliance upon standards developed with private-sector lead, revised Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, produced by US Department of Transportation, references several ANSI-accredited standards developers.

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2010-01-12 Ashrae

Changes Proposed for Standard 90.1 Address Metal Buildings

Contact: Jodi Scott Public Relations 678-539-1140 jscott@ashrae.org ATLANTA Changes to assembly descriptions and U-Factors regarding metal building assemblies are being considered in the 2010 version of Standard 90.

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2010-01-11 Ashrae

Looking for Guidance on Standard 189.1?

Contact: Jodi Scott Public Relations 678-539-1140 jscott@ashrae.org ATLANTA As publication of the nations first code-intended high-performance green building standard draws nearer, a Webpage providing the detailed information about the standard, including a draft copy of the document, has been launched.

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2010-01-09 Pennenergy

Research and Markets: Smart Buildings Will Pave the Way for a Low-Energy Europe, A Big Step in Fulfilling Europe's 20-20-20 Targets according To 2009 Report

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/resea rch/192501/strategic_assessme) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan's new report "Strategic Assessment of Growth Opportunities for Smart Buildings Markets in Europe" to their offering.

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2010-01-08 FacilitiesNet

Green Building News: New ASHRAE Certification, AIA Report, How to Engage Employees in Green Efforts

A report from the American Institute of Architects Green Building Policy in a Changing Economic Environment shows that more than one in five U.S. cities with populations greater than 50,000 have a policy to promote green buildings.

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2010-01-08 CNBC

Research and Markets: A Global Market Review of Automotive Lighting -- Includes Future Forecasts Through to 2015

DUBLIN, Jan 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/resea rch/d901f9/global_market_revi) has announced the addition of the "Global Market Review of Automotive Lighting - Forecasts to 2015" report to their offering.

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2010-01-07 Real Estate Blogs

Brookside Village Located In White House, TN An Active Adult Community With Homes For Sale : The A Team of EXIT Realty Blog

Categorized in: Listings Brookside Village Located In White House, TN An Active Adult Community With Homes For Sale BROKER OPEN HOUSE ON JANUARY 20TH FROM 11:00-1:00, LUCH WILL BE SERVED.

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2010-01-07 R & D Magazine

Department of Energy Announces Inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit

WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today the inaugural "ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit" to take place March 1-3, 2010 at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in Washington, DC.

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2010-01-06 PRLog

Implementation of Nine Standards of China LED Lighting Industry on Jan. 1st, 2010

www.shcri.com - Nine Chinese official-led industrial standards were approved by Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and were fully implemented on January 1st, 2010.

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2010-01-05 Laser Focus World

LIGHT & ILLUMINATION: Innovation in LEDs has plenty of runway to go

Advances in efficiency, light intensity, and cost have allowed LEDs to achieve widespread application, but more innovation will be required for the technology to overtake conventional lighting.

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2010-01-05 RTTNews

GE Reportedly Realigns Consumer & Industrial Division

News) - Technology, media, and financial services company General Electric Co. (GE: News ) is realigning its Louisville-based Consumer & Industrial division by placing its industrial products under GE Energy in a new division called Industrial Solutions, media reported Tuesday.

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2010-01-05 Silobreaker

Department of Energy hits LG Electronics in Energy Star crackdown

In a move that looks set to herald a major crackdown on firms that breach the conditions of its high-profile Energy Star energy-efficiency labelling scheme, the US Department of Energy (DoE) last week announced that it is to strip LG Electronics of the right to use the green certification.

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2010-01-04 Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Building a better bulb: a retail challenge

If consumers haven't begun buying new fangled and more efficient light bulbs yet, they soon won't have any other choice. A federal law passed in 2007 will slowly dim out the all-purpose incandescent bulb as we know it, requiring more energy efficient bulbs starting in 2012.

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2010-01-04 Green Lodging News

ASHRAE, Others Collaborate on New Energy Efficiency Guide

ATLANTAImproving energy use all comes down to greenthe green of energy efficiency and resource sustainability as well as the green of money. So, show them the money.

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2010-01-04 BuildingGreen.com

NBI Energy Code Proposal Moves Forward

Changes to the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) proposed by the New Buildings Institute (NBI), The American Institute of Architects, and the U.

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2010-01-04 BuildingGreen.com

Photoluminescent Exit Signs Not Energy Efficient

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has released a paper examining frequent claims about photoluminescent exit signs, which glow in the dark after charging under available light (see EBN Nov.

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2010-01-04 Peak Oil

Where the Action Is on Climate

Graeme writes " Even as many members of Congress resist as too hard or too costly the steps necessary to address global warming, American cities and states the largest of which have carbon footprints bigger than those of most nations have quietly been making serious commitments to curb emissions.

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