#162 The Sauce and The Sizzle

Sponsored By: Keystone With Christina Calaway 11/23/2020- Lighting Episode 162(Full Version) – Christina Calaway 43:04 Christina Calaway of Spark Media is a real old school lighting dork, which means our conversation begins with pulsed-start metal halides and other semi-forgotten lamp and fixture features. Before this turns into another scrub session, we transition to her current … Read more

#161 Seeing Red

Sponsored By: TCP With Alp Durmus 11/16/2020- Lighting Episode 161(Full Version) – Alp Durmus 1:00:00 Alp Durmus is a Lighting scientist and assistant professor of architectural engineering at Penn State. He came on the show to discuss his research in optimization of lamp color; reducing light use by aiming for the most reflectivity of the … Read more

#160 Everything is Dependent on Light

Sponsored By: Energy Focus With Dr. Jacob Liberman 11/9/20 – Lighting Episode 160 (Full Version) – Dr. Jacob Liberman 1:05:19 Dr Jacob Liberman is here to explain the nature of light and consciousness to Michael and Greg. He starts with the idea that seeing is more than just vision before explaining his background overcoming his … Read more

#159 Non-Compliance is the Only Way

Sponsored By: Satco With Nigel Harvey 11/2/20 – Lighting Episode 159(Full Version) – Nigel Harvey 56:33 Nigel Harvey is the Chief Executive at Recolight, a lamp recycler in the UK. We wanted to know how effective extended producer responsibility programs really are and whether or not they’ve hit a limit on the number of compliant … Read more

#158 Everything is Mitigation

Sponsored By: Energy Focus With Adrià Huguet-Ferran 10/25/20 – Lighting Episode 158 (Full Version) – Adrià Huguet-Ferran 39:53 Adrià Huguet-Ferran is CTO of Kumux, a software company that allows you to optimize almost any LED lightsource for color-tuning. The goal is for more human-centric or circadian-friendly systems, but Michael and Greg think his company’s process … Read more

#157 Building Comfort and Confidence with UV-C

Thomas Boyle, Current by GE Daintree

Sponsored By: GE Current, A Daintree Company’s 365DisInFx UV-C Technology With Thomas Boyle 10/19/2020- Lighting Episode 157(Full Version) – Thomas Boyle 34:21 Tom Boyle, of GE Current, a Daintree Company joins Michael and Greg for this week’s episode. After clarifying what a Chief Technical Officer is responsible for, he shares his perspective on twenty years … Read more

#156 Re-Enchanting the Night

Sponsored By: TCP With Jane Slade 10/12/2020- Lighting Episode 156(Full Version) – Jane Slade 36:54 Human-centric light is a selfish idea. Jane Slade is an expert in how anthropogenic light at night is harming all wildlife to some degree. In this rebroadcast of our live stream from last year’s IES Annual Conference she shares her … Read more

#155 When Your Ship Comes in It Will Dock at the Order Desk

Sponsored By: Satco With Bryan Colligan 10/5/20 – Lighting Episode 155(Full Version) – Bryan Colligan 48:59 Bryan Colligan founded Atlas Lighting in his basement in 1977, it didn’t leave that basement until 1999 when host Michael joined the company. Greg takes the lead asking questions about forty years worth of changes to the lighting industry, … Read more

#154 A Mascot for Lighting

Sponsored By: Keystone With Sam Koerbel 9/28/20 – Lighting Episode 150(Full Version) – Sam Koerbel 41:47 This week we have a crossover episode with Sam Koerbel of Lytei. Before he was an architectural engineer he was a mascot for his college football team, and that sense of building character and expressing enthusiasm is what drives … Read more

#153 Every Light Bulb has a Story

Sponsored By: Energy Focus With Tom Ciurczak 9/21/20 – Lighting Episode 153 (Full Version) – Tom Ciurczak 48:17 Tom Ciurczak, industry veteran and president of BLC America has dropped an album. He’s been a singer and songwriter his whole life, and his daughter nudged him to actually releasing an album. Call me Ishmael is a … Read more