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A global consultation on street lighting has been launched by The Climate Group and Philips. It was launched at the Future of Urban Development session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The overall aim of the consultation is to understand the barriers and constrictions to the adoption of LED street lighting, and identify ways to Read more...

Following an international study conducted by Nottingham Trent University, we can expect to see on the market soon, super sustainable lights made from recycled cola bottles. In Collaboration with Spanish SME Ona Product SL, researchers have now developed a new lighting system which is housed in a casing made from recycled PET (polyethylene Read more...

A firm in Leeds has been fined for failings on grounds of safety, after a trainee technician required skin grafts upon receiving an electric shock while using unsafe testing equipment. The Bradford man, who is 22 years old and doesn’t want to be named, had to spend five days in hospital due to his extensive injuries to both his arms and chest Read more...

Washington, DC is set to follow in the footsteps of cities all who have – or else are currently in the process of switching to LED lighting. However, unlike the other cities, Washington will not be paying the high costs of making this switchover – it is taking advantage of Philips Lighting's first foray into offering a “lighting as a Read more...

Due to a faulty heating system, Monica Thomas from Oxford,a mother-of-four says she and her family have been without heating for a year. Monica who is 25 years old and lives in Salesian Gardens in Cowley with her four children aged 8, 5, 4 and 2, in a three-storey home. According to Ms Thomas their heating and hot water system has not been Read more...

Firefighters were called to a house on Monday, January 20 to extinguish a blaze in the Tunbridge Wells area, after an electrical fault set one of the bedrooms upstairs on fire. Fire crews were called shortly before 12:30pm to the Erskine Park Road where the electrical fault was reported to have caused a fire to break out and set a wardrobe full of Read more...

Detectives investigating an armed robbery in Buxton, have released the CCTV footage of theincident, which seen a family being held captive in their own home. Since the robbery aired on BBC’s Crimewatch programmeon Wednesday, informing the public of the thousands of pounds worth of jewellery and precious metals stole, officers have now started Read more...

The lack of lighting in remote parts of the world has a knock-on effect on security and safety concerns, especially in cities or along major roadways. Hidalgo, Texas is a rural county with little infrastructure located on the US/Mexican border and is made up of low income communities called colonias and currently experiences high crime rates. Read more...

Battalion Chief, Jim Hopkins issued a release on Saturday regarding Friday’s house fire on Cornell Avenue, Berkeley Heights. The fire department was notified about the reported house fire at 2.31pm, and on arrival Deputy Chief Padovano discovered that the fire had started in the kitchen and was quickly growing and was soon to spread to other Read more...

With the adoption of an apparently much safer standard for sockets and pugs, South Africans could soon find themselves having to cope with a new type of electrical plug. Gianfranco Campetti, SABS (South African Bureau of Standards) Committee chairman says, “In 2013, SANS 164-2 was introduced as the ‘preferred standard’ for electrical plugs Read more...