Welcome to the Lighting for Health & Wellbeing newsletter for Aug. 15, 2022. The teaser "blurbs" for these monthly missives may pass by without notice most of the time. I wanted to point out a small change to this one and ask for your help. Just above the newsletter header, you'll see it now mentions "environmental stewardship" as part of our health & wellbeing focus. Why highlight this? It's a small number of characters we're allotted, you see, to give subscribers context for what they'll find inside. It's been challenging to find another way to encompass the idea of lighting that not only directly influences our biological rhythms, public health, and visual comfort with its spectral composition, intensity, and controllability aspects...but also considers its impact on the ecosystem, energy resources, and more intangible factors such as our ability to connect with each other and the environment around us. Have a suggestion on how to describe this topic? Please email me!

In this issue:

• Lighting scientist and contributor Ian Ashdown provides an extensive overview of published literature on visible light disinfection
• Editorial director Wanda Lau ponders the greater value of lighting spaces for human experience in her latest column, while examining design projects that uniquely engage citizens outdoors
• UV-LED test standard benefits SSL device makers with its combined expertise

Please stay in touch about content we publish and to propose contributed articles.

Carrie Meadows, (603) 891-9382, [email protected]