#203 Jimmy Tunable

Sponsored By: Energy Focus With James Tu 8/2/2021 – Lighting Episode 203 (Full Version) – James Tu 44:19 James Tu is a visionary entrepreneur and the Chairman & CEO of Energy Focus. In this episode we discuss the challenges and opportunities of the Human Centric Lighting “umbrella” which includes circadian, cueing, tuning, wellness and injury … Read more

#202 Auditing For Circadian

Sponsored By: BIOS With Robert Soler 7/26/21 – Lighting Episode 202 (Full Version) – Robert Soler 53:49 Robert Soler is a co-founder of BIOS Lighting. Almost everyone has trouble sleeping – including your customers. The Bios Institute will train you to be a “Circadian Auditor” to assess lighted environments from a human health perspective. And … Read more

#199 The Good Light

Sponsored By: Energy Focus With Jan Denneman 7/16/2021 – Lighting Episode 199 (Full Version) – Jan Denneman 51:37 Jan Denneman is Founder and Chairman of the Board at Good Light Group as well as Honorary Ambassador for the Global Lighting Association. We’ve been arguing for a while that quality darkness is essential to good sleep. … Read more

#170 Mark Rea Incorporates UV Into the Psyche

Sponsored By: Energy Focus With Mark Rea 1/18/2021 – Lighting Episode 170 (Full Version) – Mark Rea 1:01:27 Professor Mark Rea is getting ready to move from the Lighting Research Center to the Light and Health Research Center at Mt Sinai, but before that he joins us to discuss his latest report on UV disinfection … 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

#145 The LRC Has Created a Monster

Sponsored By: Energy Focus With Dr. Mariana Figueiro & Allison Thayer 7/27/20 – Lighting Episode 145 (Full Version) – Dr. Mariana Figueiro & Allison Thayer 1:22:40 The LRC has put together a very cool web-based tool for designing a space for healthier living (https://www.lrc.rpi.edu/healthyliving/), after playing around with it ourselves, we asked the minds behind … Read more

#141 A New Kind of Lighting Cue

Sponsored By: Energy Focus With Andrea Wilkerson 6/30/20 – Lighting Episode 141(Full Version) – Andrea Wilkerson 45:49 The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is moving past energy efficiency research and into researching better life indoors. One of their projects was looking into ‘realistic’ lighting in an Neonatal ICU. Andrea Wilkerson, senior lighting researcher, shared her findings … Read more

#111 The Lighting Wizard

Sponsored By: Keystone Technologies With Stan Walerczyk 12/2/19 – Lighting Episode 111(Full Version) – Stan Walerczyk 46:17 The fact of the matter is that controls aren’t guaranteed to generate savings. There’s a number of reasons for this; the space is always occupied, the control mechanisms themselves draw too much energy, or people who might flip … Read more

#104 Killing the Post-Lunch Dip

Sponsored By: HyLite LED Lighting With Stan Walerczyk 10/14/19 – Lighting Episode 104(Full Version) – Stan Walerczyk 42:46 Stan Walerczyk has done everything in the lighting business, but today he’s here to talk about the color blue. Specifically, he wants to talk about the 480 nanometer wavelength and how it figures into spectrally enhanced, blue-enriched … Read more