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The Podcast is BACK! After an unintentional hiatus the podcast is back and this time we're getting a little inside baseball with how lighting people and brands should talk about lighting online.

Alana Shepherd is a theatrical and architectural lighting designer and an advocate for LGBTQ rights. In this conversation we talk about light, equity, identity and design.

The word sustainability has become loaded with baggage. So let's reframe it a little bit because what Leela and I really talked about was the future of the lighting industry and light in people's lives. The future we want, one with much less waste, less carbon, and mitigated climate change, will only come if all of the stakeholders in the design and building industry are working toward it.

That's why I'm so excited to have Leela Shanker on the show. Leela Shanker is a lighting designer first and foremost, but she is also a vocal champion and leader in the world of sustainability. Leela is part of the Green Light Alliance, and in this episode of the podcast, we talk about sustainability.

Leela and I start with the nuts and bolts of the GLA Incubator project, which is gathering baseline carbon data for the lighting industry, but then the conversation really shifts outward into best practices of design, maintenance, the life cycle of products, end-of-life and how we need to think differently about the built environment.

But then what we really discuss is the future of lighting and the built environment.

We touch on a few things throughout the episode:

Green Light Alliance - https://www.greenlight-alliance.com

Incubator Project - https://www.greenlight-alliance.com/lca-incubator

Illuminating Engineering Society - https://www.ies.org

International Association of Lighting Designers: https://iald.org

Broadway Green Alliance - https://www.broadwaygreen.com

Delivered Lumens Podcast Episode 1: What is Light in the Metaverse - https://www.deliveredlumens.lighting/podcast/what-is-light-in-the-metaverse

Mariana Figueiro, a renowned scientist and director of the Light and Health Research Center at Mount Sinai, talks about the importance of light in human health. Figueiro explains that exposure to light, especially natural light, is crucial for regulating our circadian rhythms, which in turn affects our sleep, mood, and overall well-being. She also discusses the impact of artificial light on our health and sleep patterns. Throughout the interview, Figueiro provides practical tips on optimizing our exposure to light for better health outcomes, including recommendations on light levels, timing, and the use of light-emitting devices. We also delve into the differences between circadian entrainment and alertness, how pop science misses the nuances of light and health, and how inequity makes achieving healthy light (and darkness) difficult.

For more on the Light and Health Research Center at Mount Sinai:

• Official Mount Sinai website: https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/light-health/team
• Educational website: https://www.light-health.org/home
• Online courses: https://www.light-health.org/education/courses
• Let’s Talk About Light and Health Podcast: https://www.light-health.org/education/resources/lets-talk-about-light-and-health

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If you love light, you have to love darkness, and no one is a better advocate for darkness than Jane Slade. Through her daily work, writing, and social media presence, Jane is a passionate advocate for the power of darkness to protect wildlife and improve everyone’s mental health.

In this episode, we talk about the power of darkness as a ritual, how to incorporate darkness into our lives in a healthy way, and how public policy needs to evolve to include darkness planning.

This month I was fortunate to host a conversation on Lighting and Skin Tone for the IES NYC and Equity in lighting. In this mini episode, I walk through some of the takeaways I learned from hosting the panel. Including the concepts of fidelity versus preference, what theatrical lighting can teach us and what we need to do going forward .