A sustainable world is one that only uses energy efficient lighting.
Energy efficient lighting is part of the solution to both climate change and the energy crisis. It will also help speed up the revolution towards a new world energy audit in which renewable energy sources will radically change the way our energy supplies are produced and distributed.[...]
AUTHOR: Monique Cousineau | CATEGORY: Sustainable Development
April 22, 2013
A Simple Switch for a Sustainable World
AUTHOR: Monique Cousineau | CATEGORY: Design
January 10, 2013
Top 10 Most Popular Philips Lumec Luminaires for 2012
LED luminaires are gaining in popularity. Philips Lumec reveals their top 10 luminaires for 2012. Interestingly, 9 out of 10 are either exclusively LED or LED compatible luminaires. The Helios (#4) is the only one to offer conventional lighting only. This is a tangible sign that across North America, municipalities, landscape architects, lighting designers and other specifiers are choosing more and more LED luminaires for their outdoor lighting projects.[...]
AUTHOR: Monique Cousineau | CATEGORY: Miscellaneous
October 4, 2012
The First International Dark Sky Reserve in the World Celebrates 5th Anniversary.
The International Dark Sky Reserve (IDSR) in Mt Megantic Quebec just celebrated its 5th anniversary. On September 21, 2007, the region of Mt Megantic was officially designated the first International Dark Sky Reserve in the world!The Mt. Magantic International Dark Sky Reserve covers an area of almost 5,500 km2 .It is centered on the Observatory within the provincial park and has a radius of 50 km. The Reserve also includes the City of Sherbrooke, 60 km away. Mont Megantic is located in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, about a 3 hours’ drive east from Montreal.[...]
AUTHOR: | CATEGORY: Sustainable Development
June 14, 2012
Novae’s 2012 Ecodesign Contest
Last week Philips Lumec received the great news that two of their products, UrbanScape and MetroScape were finalists in Novae’s 2012 Ecodesign Contest. The mission of the Novae competition is to highlight and reward the best initiatives in ecodesign across the province of Quebec.
AUTHOR: | CATEGORY: Design
June 7, 2012
Something Old, Something New
Today, I want to share with the story of two clients from the province of Quebec (Canada) who had different needs in outdoor lighting, but they both had one very important point in common, they wanted to be different. They wished to stand out. Those two clients were working on residential development projects. For the outdoor lighting of these two urban projects, our lighting solutions MetroScape and UrbanScape were chosen.[...]
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