Banff Converts Streetlights to LED Light Fixtures, Reduce Energy Consumption
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Even small Canadian towns are finding that they can’t afford NOT to start converting to LED lighting technology. Banff, a small town in a UNESCO World Heritage Center National park, is working with OSRAM (read more about OSRAM in this blog) to convert its city street lights to LED fixtures. So far eight streetlights have been transferred to LED lighting and the city has already seen a 36% reduction in energy consumption. For a small town budget, that is incredibly significant.
Thanksgiving is approaching and though pondering all of the things in our life for which we are thankful should be at the top of our list over these next few days, many of us are weighted down by the impending “Black Friday” and the holiday shopping season. May I suggest you push those worries aside, enjoy thanksgiving and the time you will spend with family and friends, and avoid the crowds altogether. How do you do this, you ask?
Novaled, an OLED developer, reported their development of white OLEDs for lighting applications with an efficiency of 35 lumens/W and a lifetime of 100,000 hours at a brightness of 1000 cd/m2. You can read more about Novaled’s, OLED fixture development in my blog post “
The Currat family hopes to encourage other children to get involved in activities that promote physical fitness and challenges them. That’s why they wanted to share with others the accomplishments of their six-year-old daughter, Isabelle Currat, who has climbed up five 14,000-foot summits this past 2007 hiking season. The kindergartner from Colorado has conquered Quandary Peak, Mount Biershstadt and Mount Sherman and hopes to reach the top of all 52 “fourteeners” in Colorado before she turns 14 years old. Now that’s an incredible goal for a girl still learning to read and write.
The Bay Area Wilderness Training (BAWT) has opened its Climbing for Kids program for registration for the 2008 season. The program gives at-risk and underprivileged youth a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the great outdoors through guided hikes of some of the greatest summits in North America.