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September 28th, 2018
LightAware Trustees met with Dr Andrew Riley, Senior Medical Officer and Dr Colin N Ramsay, Consultant Epidemiologist from the Office of the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, at St Andrew’s House in Edinburgh. We discussed LightAware’s concerns particularly the health issues arising from LED, how lighting is coordinated across different Scottish Government Departments, the EU SCHEER Report […]
September 19th, 2018
On 19th September LightAware Trustee John Lincoln attended the Darc room workshop on ‘Human Centric Lighting’. Speakers at the workshop were: The discussion ranged from the value of ‘human-centric’ and ‘circadian’ lighting to the effect of blue light at night on anticancer cells and DNA repair. The need for more research on lighting was also discussed. […]
July 30th, 2018
LightAware is a Charity which raises awareness of the effects of artificial lighting on human health and wellbeing. We welcome the publication of the SCHEER Report into the potential risks to human health of LEDs and the acknowledgement that the young and the elderly must be considered ‘vulnerable and susceptible populations’ with regard to the […]
July 17th, 2018
LightAware have sent the following to the UK media about the EU’s SCHEER committee’s report on the potential risks to human health of LED lighting:
July 11th, 2018
In January LightAware submitted comments on the EU Single Lighting Regulation which aims to phase out all but one type of halogen lighting and much fluorescent lighting by 2020. The charity also submitted a proposal for an exemption to this legislation which would allow light sensitive people to access the incandescent bulbs they need to […]
May 23rd, 2018
In 2018 the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, published an independent report into the threat to health posed by pollution to people living in England. pp113-115 contain a section about light pollution Click here for the full report Click here for the section about light pollution included on the LightAware website LightAware have […]
May 11th, 2018
LightAware have contributed a letter to a debate in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, entitled ‘Don’t Let the EU turn out the Stage Lights.’ Having already banned traditional incandescent bulbs, the EU ban on lighting is extending to mains tungsten halogen lamps, most compact fluorescent lamps and T8 linear fluorescent. The draft document is currently under consideration […]
April 23rd, 2018
We are delighted to welcome Dr Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska to the LightAware Advisory Panel. Dr Zielinska-Dabkowska is a Chartered RIBA architect and award winning practicing lighting designer. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdansk University of Technology in Gdansk, Poland, where she conducts research on various aspects of light and lighting in […]
January 25th, 2018
LightAware submitted the following comments to the EU Commission on 25th January 2018.
January 25th, 2018
LightAware submitted the following proposed exemption to the EU Commission on 25th January 2018. LightAware’s exemption document is in response to EU plans to further restrict the availability of different types of lighting in the European Union. If allowed the exemption will enable light sensitive people to access the incandescent bulbs they need. The Single […]
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