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January 19th, 2018
LightAware have held a very productive meeting with the Department for Transport’s Steve Berry OBE, Head Highways Maintenance, Innovation, Resilience, Light Rail and Cableways Branch, and Gary Kemp Policy Advisor, Local Infrastructure Division. We discussed LightAware’s concerns about LED street lights, and the pain, ill health and social exclusion they are causing to people who […]
January 17th, 2018
We are very pleased to welcome Nathan Savage as LightAware’s new Ambassador for Dubai. Nathan is a lighting designer with Nathan Savage Lighting Design and has become part of LightAware after seeing the charity’s speech at the Professional Lighting Design Convention in Paris. Nathan says: ‘I think it is the moral duty of those within […]
December 17th, 2017
The LightAware Advisory Panel are all experts in their professional field who support the charity with advice and guidance, ensuring that our website and our campaigns are grounded in the best possible information. LightAware are delighted that the eminent photodermatologist Professor John Hawk has agreed to be a member of the panel. We look forward […]
December 16th, 2017
The Falkirk Herald has published an article about LightAware. Former LightAware trustee Anna Levin talked to the newspaper about the experiences which led her to be involved in setting up the charity and about the work LightAware has done since. Click here for link to full article
November 19th, 2017
“The quality and quantity of light we’re exposed to has a profound effect on our bodies and minds.” These words from an article from the UK’s Natural Health Magazine about the issue of sensitivity to artificial light, and about LightAware. Click here for link to full article
November 6th, 2017
We are delighted to announce that LightAware has won an award at the ‘Oscars of the lighting industry’ in Paris this weekend. The Professional Lighting Design Convention 2017, which took place from 1-4 November in Paris, drew more than 2,000 delegates from across the world. The Convention presented the ‘Award at Large’ to LightAware: “for […]
September 16th, 2017
In July 2017, the EU’s Scientific Committee on Health, Environment and Emerging Risks published their preliminary report into the risks to human health of LEDs: “The SCHEER concludes that the available scientific research does not provide evidence for health hazards to the eye or skin associated with LEDs when the total exposure is below the […]
August 31st, 2017
LightAware is delighted to be nominated for an award at the 6th Professional Lighting Design Convention in Paris in November 2017. The charity has been shortlisted for the Professional Lighting Design Recognition Award 2017 in the Category “Award at Large”! LightAware have been shortlisted for our “effort to raise awareness of the impact of artificial lighting on […]
July 12th, 2017
LightAware has written to Justine Greening, Minister for Women and Equalities, Penny Mordaunt, Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work, and Chris Grayling, Secretary of State for Transport, to ask for meetings with the charity. The text of one of the letters is below: Dear Chris Grayling, LightAware is a charity dedicated to […]
June 22nd, 2017
We have serious concerns about the effect of LED streetlights on light-sensitive people
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