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Western brands want to manufacture their products at the lowest price they can possibly achieve; but when factories are under constant pressure to manufacture more cheaply, the owners stop investing in critical aspects of their business. And to add insult to injury, the money saved helps to fund ‘greenwashing’ marketing campaigns. The result of this greedy and ignorant attitude is not just an environmental disaster. For the people right at the start of the supply chain, it can lead to large scale abuse of basic rights. On our visits to East Asia, well-lit has witnessed desperately unsafe working environments, zero...

If I told you I was passionate about the lighting industry from a young age, it wouldn’t be remotely true. I never planned to have a career in lighting at all. Up until my mid-twenties, I’d tried many things: tennis coaching, fantasy sports games, and sports marketing, I did some of them quite well, and some not so well, but I can’t say I enjoyed any of them. But around 2004 I started working for my father’s CCTV company, a market leader in designing and manufacturing video modem systems, such as DuoLinks and DataLinks: used everywhere from the London Underground and...

The quickest and simplest way to save energy is to cut out obvious energy wastage.

Let’s be honest! Most of us don’t care about climate change. Yes, I said it. We haven’t met many polar bears until now and warmer weather is very welcome.