Sustainable Lighting with Leela Shanker of the Green Light Alliance

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

Incubator Project

Illuminating Engineering Society

International Association of Lighting Designers

Broadway Green Alliance

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