Homebase says it works "very closely with suppliers and in-store colleagues to ensure that customers are informed about how to reduce light pollution and considerate lighting when they purchase outdoor lighting".
To get through the application process local astronomers conducted a survey to assess the levels of light pollution, and lighting engineers audited the existing external lighting in the national park.
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About 93 percent of 3, 040 large U.S. hospitals used one or more day lighting or lighting conservation features, including tinted window glass (80 percent), reflective window glass (39 percent), external overhangs or awnings (47 percent), skylights or atriums designed to provide light (57 percent), automatic controls or sensors that increase or reduce lighting in response to the level of natural light (14 percent), and occupancy sensors that reduce lighting when rooms are unoccupied (46 percent).
In addition to greater control and management of the lighting, the new computerized system will deliver superior light and vibrancy levels in real-time, unlike the previous floodlights.
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The company makes light emitting diode products, lighting products and semiconductor products.
According to the council the new lighting will reduce light pollution and "provide clearer and more easily identifiable coverage for York's CCTV camera network".
In D2 you walked in a cave and suddenly saw some light in the distance, you run at it and realize its an lighting enhanced super strong skeleton archer.
The national park applied to the International Dark Sky Association to earn the status, a process that involved having its light pollution levels strictly monitored, and shielding outdoor lighting to make it more dark-sky friendly.
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The public announcements, dignitary comments, and festivities leading up to and including the sequenced lighting of the rope light strands by the eight Sault Ste.
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By using intelligent lighting systems that are energy efficient and minimize light pollution, the biosphere reserve was able to bring down its energy needs with the added bonus of clear, starlit skies.
Strips of eco-friendly, light-emitting diodes, known as LED lighting, are flexible and can be used to illuminate architectural details in a rainbow of colors.
With the help of many local governments, "A Liter of Light" and its collaborators have installed 12, 000 solar bottle bulbs, lighting 10, 000 homes in five Filipino provinces.
"A reluctant reality, " says Mr. Linley, whose clients often insist on Lutron lighting systems that allow you to control the light, blinds and television with a remote.
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When the Nets began playing at the Barclays, it was obvious that the team had decided to do something dramatic with lighting, which was to brightly light the herringbone basketball court and keep the rest of the place in darkness.
The basics: As you probably know, Congress passed a law that basically compels the lighting industry is phasing out the warm and incredibly inefficient light provided by incandescent bulbs, which are nice for a warm glow, but not so nice for the Earth or your energy bill.
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He noted that Neal Verfuerth, the CEO of Orion Energy Systems, has received help from the Department of Agriculture, the Small Business Administration and other government tax credits and assistance to build the company and develop products such as a lighting fixture that produces more light with half the energy.
The transition to LEDs is, literally, as easy as changing a light bulb, provided the LED lighting is compatible with the existing lighting infrastructure in homes and buildings.
Providing a constant light during daylight hours the bottle bulbs are promoted as a better choice than candles and electric lighting that may have dangerous or faulty wiring and could cause fires.
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Wider use in general lighting for homes and businesses has been held back by high prices, poor light quality and bad colors.
Brian Prather's scenic design and Chris Lee's lighting work harmoniously, especially when family photos lining a hallway light up, then fade away like Mother's disappearing memories.
Every room, for example, has a lighting network that decides, when a person enters, whether to turn the light on and, if so, how bright to make it.
The indoor lighting levels in their enclosures now simulate those of natural light levels, in line with sunrise and sunset.
Apple has embedded a fiber-optic lighting system to illuminate the keyboard and bolstered it with sensors that can tell when the ambient light in the room begins to dim.
The strands work like a molecular Light Brite, lighting up in those places where there's a mismatch between the chip's everyman DNA and that of the person being tested.
The keyboard also uses proximity detection to turn on the lighting when your hands approach it, and automatically dims or brightens, depending on the amount of light in the room.
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