Diary for October 2009
28th In the Dark .... again
There are times when its like living in a parallel universe, where everyone seems to see the world in a completely different way. Like - for example - a news report from yesterday's newspaper telling me that the town of Toulouse is undertaking a lighting trial that's designed to save them 50% in energy costs. Meaty stuff - so how do they do it? First you dim your streetlighting by 50%. That's good for me; I live in sight of Poundbury and that's the kind of difference I can take. And then you fi...
9th Why I Love Light
For those who weren't at the LoveLight event last night - or for those of you who were there and don't feel you can survive without a copy of my funky riff: At the end of the movie, after Senator Rance Stoddard has told the real story of the Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Maxwell Scott – editor of the Shinbone Star - reaches across for his young reporter’s notebook and tears up the story that’s been told. “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact – print the legend.” So I’m he...
5th And for the next hundred years ...
When did we realise that we had more than enough light and could start thinking about how we use it, rather than worrying all the time about not having enough? More to the point – when will we realise that we have enough light? The history of humankind has been one of looking for light – any light – because there never was enough to go around. Light was difficult and expensive to make and never lasted very long. We worked by daylight and rested in the darkness. And then we discovered the elect...
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