Editorial
May/June 2020
FROM THE EDITOR SECRETARY Brendan Keely FSLL bkeely@cibse.org SLL COORDINATOR Juliet Rennie Tel: 020 8772 3685 jrennie@cibse.org EDITOR Jill Entwistle jillentwistle@yahoo.com COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE: Linda Salamoun MSLL (chair) Iain Carlile FSLL Jill Entwistle Chris Fordham MSLL Rebecca Hodge Eliot Horsman MSLL Stewart Langdown FSLL Bruce Weil Gethyn Williams All contributions are the responsibility of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the society. All contributions are personal, except where attributed to an organisation represented by the author.
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The coronavirus pandemic has seen the inevitable cases of human greed, selfishness, stupidity and exploitation. But outweighing them has been the human impulse to reach out and help, to respond with humour, compassion and creativity, and to shine a light in the darkness. We may be physically distanced but we are finding different ways of coming together. A modest initiative quickly came from the SLL, the ILP, the IALD and Zumtobel Group UK who have united to create the Light Minded Movement, an Instagram project allowing the lighting community to communicate through images (see p4). There will be many more such endeavours, simple, spontaneous and positive. What we can only hope is that we learn a lesson from this, though history is not encouraging. As writer and environmentalist George Monbiot put it in The Guardian, 'We have been living in a bubble... of false comfort and denial. Now the membrane has ruptured, and we
find ourselves naked and outraged, as the biology we appeared to have banished storms through our lives.' Our cavalier disregard for our planet and its ecosystem is all part of the same syndrome. As John Bullock points out in his examination of the circular economy (see p5), the lighting industry has to look to its own backyard in this respect. 'The temptation, when this pandemic has passed, will be to find another bubble,' continues Monbiot. 'We cannot afford to succumb to it. From now on, we should expose our minds to the painful realities we have denied for too long.'
JILL ENTWISTLE JILLENTWISTLE @YAHOO.COM
CURRENT SLL LIGHTING GUIDES SLL Lighting Guide 0: Introduction to Light and Lighting (2017) SLL Lighting Guide 1: The Industrial Environment (2012) SLL Lighting Guide 2: Lighting for Healthcare Premises (2019) SLL Lighting Guide 4: Sports (2006) SLL Lighting Guide 5: Lighting for Education (2011) SLL Lighting Guide 6: The Exterior Environment (2016) SLL Lighting Guide 7: Office Lighting (2015) SLL Lighting Guide 8: Lighting for Museums and Galleries (2015) SLL Lighting Guide 9: Lighting for Communal Residential Buildings (2013) SLL Lighting Guide 10: Daylighting – a guide for designers (2014) SLL Lighting Guide 11: Surface Reflectance and Colour (2001) SLL Lighting Guide 12: Emergency Lighting Design Guide (2015) SLL Lighting Guide 13: Places of Worship (2014) SLL Lighting Guide 14: Control of Electric Lighting (2016) SLL Lighting Guide 15: Transport Buildings (2017) SLL Lighting Guide 16: Lighting for Stairs (2017) SLL Lighting Guide 17: Lighting for Retail Premises (2018) SLL Lighting Guide 18: Lighting for Licensed Premises (2018) SLL Lighting Guide 19: Lighting for Extreme Conditions (2019) Guide to Limiting Obtrusive Light (2012) Code for Lighting (2012) Commissioning Code L (2018) SLL Lighting Handbook (2018)
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