Editorial
March/April 2021
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 Rory Marples MSLL 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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In any national crisis we inevitably look to political leaders to formulate policies that will at least mitigate and, hopefully, ultimately resolve it. However as the Covid pandemic proves yet again it is primarily ordinary people doing their bit – medical staff, bus drivers, lab technicians, volunteer food deliverers and on – who actually get us through it. With climate change, pandemic and political unrest it is easy to be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the problems humankind currently faces. But then you find an example of one person who has a simple solution to a big problem. In fact in this instance, several problems in one go. Aluwaine Manyonga, SLL Young Lighter 2020, has devised a solar-powered LED lantern that not only provides a viable alternative to the widespread use of toxic kerosene lamps in Africa, but manages to do it by recycling plastic bottles and electronic waste (Solar recycle, p5). There
is also potential for creating employment. As Manyonga says, it could be a game changer. If ever there was a person who believed you could move mountains if you only put your mind to it, it was Liz Peck. A former SLL secretary and then president, she fitted more passion, energy, service and commitment into too few years than many people who live twice as long. We pay tribute to her in this issue (Light and soul, p11). As statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke put it, 'Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little'.
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 (2018) 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 (2018) 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) SLL Lighting Guide 20: Lighting and Facilities Management (2020) Guide to Limiting Obtrusive Light (2012) Code for Lighting (2012) Commissioning Code L (2018) SLL Lighting Handbook (2018)
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