Get A Grip On Lighting Podcast
460 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRecognizing a need in the lighting industry to forum together and discuss subjects & issues in our industry, the Get A Grip On Lighting Podcast was born. Get A Grip brings on industry experts to talk about real issues and focused on that subject matter. If there’s something to be said on the subject, Get A Grip will go there.
Get A Grip On Lighting Podcasts are hosted by Michael Colligan and Greg Ehrich, who have over 30 years of combined experience in the lighting industry. Michael Colligan is an entrepreneur and inventor. He’s a subject matter expert in commercial and industrial lighting supply, lighting retrofits, and finding recycling streams for hard-to-recycle waste. Greg Ehrich, LC is the former President of the National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors (NAILD) and owner of a progressive lighting distributorship.
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Episode 259: Starving for Darkness #24 - Solving Light Pollution at the Speed of Light
September 30, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBBettymaya Foott works for the International Dark-Sky Association as Director of Engagement. Preserving dark skies is her life goal and she finds that astrophotography is the most poignant way to express a love for the night, as well as educate about the impacts of light pollution. If you want to take some great photos of the night sky, listen to Bettymaya here for some of the best places to go and amazing tips and tricks for astrophotography.
Episode 258: #212 - Telling Stories Through Lighting
September 27, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBAngelica Santana holds a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering with a focus in Lighting/Electrical systems from The Pennsylvania State University. Angelica is a lighting designer with CM Kling in Washington DC. Angelica describes her work as “painting with light” when she goes into a space. As a yoga instructor, she also uses light as an important aspect of meditation. Want to de-stress you or your employees? Shoot an email to Angelica at [email protected]
Episode 257: #211 - Get Above the Next Sale
September 23, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MBMatt is the outgoing President of NAILD. He held down the fort through the pandemic crisis, keeping NAILD thriving over the past 18 months. You’ll hear about Matt’s own thriving business, plus NAILD’s leading position on Dark Sky education and advocacy. And hey, don’t forget to join NAILD!
Episode 256: Starving for Darkness #23 - Every Light Matters
September 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBAshley is the Director of Conservation for the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) where she collaborates with advocates and volunteers around the world to help them promote effective uses of outdoor lighting and protect pristine dark skies. Ashley tells us about her work in dark sky awareness and education through the lens of Sensory Ecology. And listen to her great plumbing analogy for wasting light.
Episode 255: #210 - Transmitting Curiosity
September 20, 2021 00:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBSandra Vásconez is a senior instructor in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is co-creator and co-director of the Rocky Mountain Lighting Academy. Education at the Academy is designed for professionals already in the industry. So, if you want some fresh air and a deep dive into lighting education, head on over to Boulder and learn a thing or two from Sandra.
Episode 254: Starving for Darkness #22 - Our Fear of the Dark is Learned
September 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MBDr. Fischer operates The Zoological Lighting Institute, a 501 c(3) dedicated to supporting the sciences of light and life through the arts for animal welfare and wildlife conservation. This one is broad ranging. What are the five domains of animal welfare? What is a ZALA station? And why should banks become bird friendly? To find out, give this episode a listen.
Episode 253: #209 - Selling Them Over And Over Again
September 13, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBIn 1994 Bob Crespo eloquently stated that his son Ray was “doing nothing” and asked if he wanted to start a business doing something environmental since Ray “loved the environment.” And so, Energy Conservation and Supply was born. Since then, Ray and company have been working on things like controls, UV disinfection and EV charging stations.
Episode 252: Starving for Darkness #21 - Acceptance Comes With Understanding
September 09, 2021 00:00 - 8 minutes - 40.3 MBSamyukta is an advocate with the International Dark Sky Association, and a member of their International Committee. She currently works in Slovenia, designing experiences to help people connect with darkness and the night sky. Have you ever heard of Forest Bathing? Well Samyukta can design a dark sky experience where you can go “Star Bathing.” Give this a listen and you’ll learn about “archeoastronomy” and “ethnoastronomy.”
Episode 251: Starving for Darkness #20 - Dreams Are Your Free Therapy
September 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBIf you were fascinated with the previous episode with Peter, listen to this one. He’s an expert in the field of human perception, but when you’re talking about bringing back the night sky, you’re bound to go into weird and wonderful areas of conversation. This episode touches on flotation tanks, meditation and lucid dreaming. The hour will fly by.
Episode 250: #208 - Decommoditizing the Conversation
September 06, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBJustin is the President of Stouch Lighting, Inc, a LED and UVC distribution and implementation company. Stouch Lighting has had some pretty good success with UVC in the health field. There’s hygiene theater in a public school hallway, and there’s reducing infections by quantifiably inactivating pathogens in a hospital setting. Justin is working successfully towards the latter. Listen to this episode then go make some room for UVC in your warehouse.
Episode 249: Contrast Ratios #2 - Lighting That Makes Us All Look Beautiful
August 31, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBKevin Houser [PhD, PE (NE), FIES, LC, LEED AP] is a Professor at Oregon State University with a joint appointment as Chief Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Houser is an expert in light and color. He has conducted research on human perceptual and biological responses to light. Do color rendering metrics have a racial bias? How can lighting make everyone look radiant, healthy and attractive? What opportunities are there for truly equitable color rendering for ...
Episode 248: #207 - With Complexity Comes Education
August 30, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBDaniel has over 25 years of experience in the lighting industry as lighting designer, manufacturer, sales rep, teacher, and consultant. He currently serves as ICF Lead Lighting Consultant for ENERGY STAR. In this episode, the wide-ranging topics include LED flicker, CRI and The Department of Energy. Daniel is also Chair of the NCQLP Examination Committee. No, you’re not going to get any answers to the exam, but it couldn’t hurt to listen to this episode!
Episode 247: Contrast Ratios #1 - A Feel Good Buddy Cop Movie
August 24, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBWelcome to the premiere episode of Contrast Ratios with hosts Edward Bartholomew and John Arthur Wilson. Edward is the Principal of Bartholomew Lighting (https://sites.google.com/view/bartholomew-lighting) and John is the founding director of Fernhill Shopworks (https://www.fernhillshopworks.com). Edward and John reveal some of the "awkward" and raw topics from their podcast.
Episode 246: #206 - BioCentric for Early Adopters
August 23, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBOliver Moorhouse is the Head of Business Development for BrainLit North America Inc a subsidiary of BrainLit AB, the developer and IP holder for BioCentric Lighting™. We’ve talked about human centric lighting before, which Brainlit likes to call “BioCentric” lighting. Never mind controls on the wall, Oliver talks about wearables - now you just walk into a room and the lighting changes to just how you need it. The applications are widespread, from helping premature babies go home ea...
Episode 245: Starving for Darkness #19 - Our Approach To Lighting Is Not Evidence Based
August 18, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBDr. Rajaram Bhagavathula is a Senior Research Associate in the Division of Vehicle, Driver, & System Safety at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Dr. Bhagavathula has conducted some fascinating studies on the effects of light on drivers. He talks about the effects of glare and light bands on driver behaviour, the hypnotic effect, the moth effect, dashboard lights… you'll never drive the same again.
Episode 244: #205 - The Language of Light
August 16, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBAli joined Heliospectra as CEO in 2017. With him he brought his passion for people and technology with 22 years of international business leadership experience to his position at the helm of Heliospectra. Ali and Heliospectra are on the cutting edge of horticultural LED lighting. With their light spectrum controlled lighting and software, “communicating” with plants to make them healthier and tastier is possible. Far out stuff.
Episode 243: Starving for Darkness #18 - Starving for Scotobiology
August 11, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 47.7 MBRobert is the founder and CEO of the Canadian Scotobiology Group Inc. that raises awareness of the impact of artificial light at night (ALAN) on wildlife and human health. Robert talks about “Eco Lights,” how much light you actually need in order to read, the shelf life of hormones and many other fascinating darkness related topics. He even references the Moody Blues.
Episode 242: #204 - Watch the Details
August 09, 2021 00:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBAngie Koch is the President and founder of Premier Lighting. Angie shares her entrepreneurial story, and what her role encompasses in the company. Greg, your Get a Grip On Lighting host is also an owner of the company, so they both share how he came on board, all those years ago, what they’re up to and where Premier is going.
Episode 241: #203 - Jimmy Tunable
August 02, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBJames Tu is a visionary entrepreneur and the Chairman & CEO of Energy Focus. In this episode we discuss the challenges and opportunities of the Human Centric Lighting "umbrella" which includes circadian, cuing, tuning, wellness and injury prevention. The choice vs prescriptive circle is squared. Finally, James refers to the scientific literature and to the massive opportunity the lighting industry has to make a significant impact on human health and wellness. Jimmy Tunable has ...
Episode 240: Starving for Darkness #17 - Confusion in Perception
July 28, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBPeter has a PhD in Psychology studying human perception, action, and the link between them, with over a decade of experience in conducting research in these topics. Blue light, glare bombs, perception, infrared medicine...these are just a few of the fascinating things touched upon. We only scratched the surface with Peter. He’ll be back.
Episode 239: #202 - Auditing For Circadian
July 26, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 49.3 MBRobert Soler is a co-founder of BIOS Lighting. Almost everyone has trouble sleeping - including your customers. The Bios Institute will train you to be a “Circadian Auditor” to assess lighted environments from a human health perspective. And guess what? That’s going to lead to sales!
Episode 238: #201 - LC is the PhD in Lighting
July 22, 2021 00:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBFrank Agraz has worked in the energy efficient lighting community for 25+ years and serves as Director of the C&I Engineering department at Eco Engineering. Frank tells us about his stint as the Exam Committee Chair. He won’t give away any answers, but he’ll tell a bit about the background of creating and administering the exams. Gotta get your LC!
Episode 237: Starving for Darkness #16 - The Fight Against Light Privilege
July 21, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBAndy has been involved in astronomy education and outreach for over 25 years, and in the planetarium field for over 20. Andy tells us about his successful techniques for teaching kids about the night sky. He’s also had some wins in cases involving “light privilege” and just plain ignorance. Inspiring.
Episode 236: #200 - The Sports Lighting Experience
July 19, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBMike Quijano currently serves as the Strategic Marketing Director for Cooper’s Ephesus Sports Lighting business. From community soccer fields to professional football stadiums, Ephesus Sports Lighting has learned to mitigate the problems with overheating in high wattage extreme application LED’s. They have enhanced controllability by a magnitude while simplifying it and are addressing the challenges that come with abiding by local light pollution ordinances. Plus a lot more. This...
Episode 235: #199 - The Good Light
July 16, 2021 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBJan Denneman is Founder and Chairman of the Board at Good Light Group as well as Honorary Ambassador Global Lighting Association. We’ve been arguing for a while that quality darkness is essential to good sleep. Jan contends that good light during the day is also essential to our circadian rhythm for a good night's sleep.
Episode 234: Starving for Darkness #15 - Chipping Away At Municipal Light Ordinance Indifference
July 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 minute - 38.6 MBBarry Johnson is the volunteer webmaster for the Pennsylvania Outdoor Lighting Council, as well as a lecturer and consultant on outdoor lighting issues. In his retirement, Barry is a crusader against light trespass and pollution. If you live in Pennsylvania and your neighbor’s flood light illuminates your bedroom wall, give Barry and his fellow POL Council members a call. Contact Barry @ http://www.polcouncil.org/
Episode 233: #198 - Simon Says...It Has To Be Interoperable
July 13, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBSimon is the Chief Technology Officer and founder of Silvair and Chair of the Mesh Working Group at Bluetooth SIG. Michael and Greg have been expounding the need for controls in lighting for some time now. Along comes Simon and Bluetooth mesh networking. Revolutionary stuff.
Episode 232: Starving for Darkness #14 - The Space Tourism Race
July 07, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBValerie Stimac Bailey is a travel, space, and astrotourism writer. She founded Space Tourism Guide in 2017, and her first book Dark Skies: A Practical Guide to Astrotourism was published by Lonely Planet in 2019. Valerie thinks that space travel will be available as a “bucket list” goal to the average person in the not too distant future. In the meantime, let’s make the night sky accessible to everyone so we can all experience “the Milky Way effect.”
Episode 231: #197 - The Lighting Agora
July 05, 2021 00:00 - 40 seconds - 25.9 MBYou already know our old friend Tom Butters. He has years of training experience in the lighting industry, including a stint at the Philips Lighting Concept Centre. Now Tom has funneled all that knowledge into The Lighting Agora (lightingagora.com). Tom and his organization can help you do your job quicker, better and more confidently and that, of course, leads to better revenue.
Episode 230: #196 - The End Of The Beginning - The L-Prize
June 28, 2021 14:56 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBOur guests, Brian Walker Ph.D and Kelly Gordon are here to talk about the L-Prize. Brian is the manager of DOE’s Lighting Research and Development program and Kelly is the Program Manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. What is the L-Prize? Go here - https://www.energy.gov/eere/ssl/l-prize-competition - for the description. But suffice to say, if you want a piece of the 12.2 million dollars in prize money, INVENT A BETTER LIGHTING SYSTEM!
Episode 229: Starving for Darkness #13 - A Really Good Problem with Deep Anand
June 23, 2021 00:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBDeep Anand is an astronomy lover and dark sky enthusiast. Deep has been working to spread awareness about light pollution, from his home base in Delhi India. Deep is passionate about bringing the night sky back for the children. Maybe he’ll even get this issue onto the Prime Minister of India's desk. Deep has even written poetry about the night sky and the stars. And get this - he’s only 17!
Episode 228: #195 - NAILD Rallies The Industry To Dark Skies
June 21, 2021 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBDon’t let his young age fool you. Doug is the Vice President of Marketing at Light Efficient Design. Doug, who’s on the Board of NAILD, talks about the need for education in the industry to bring more awareness to the dark sky issue. From prison yards to parks - can we move the needle with best practices, comprehensive ordinances, thorough education, public awareness and a tiered accreditation by application type?
Episode 227: #194 - Hats Off to Lightserve
June 17, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBThe three brains behind Lightserve, Kevin, Bill, and Jason have grown Lightserve into a 100 million dollar company in just 10 years. You can get some tips from how they treat their employees, contractors and customers. Maybe you can learn a thing or two from their acquisition strategies. These guys are the perfect business storm!
Episode 226: Starving for Darkness #12 - Biology Rests on a Razor Blade
June 16, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBDr. George Schaaf is a veterinary pathologist working in the Comparative Medicine department at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Schaaf studies the effects of light on animals and transfers the learnings to human physiology. You’ll hear about the effects of light and glare on deer, chickens and Syrian hamsters - as well as your beloved pets. He tells us why night matters for animals and about his efforts towards “re-wilding” the environment.
Episode 225: #193 - It's Just a Hobby
June 14, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBIan Ashdown is a consultant with over forty years’ experience in lighting design, research and development, and software engineering (He built the original version of AGI32). He holds more than 160 patents and patents pending. Listening to Ian, deploying advanced lighting into practical tools and software seems like a side project, something he does for fun! Right now, Ian’s passion is horticultural lighting. If you want to improve the taste of tomatoes, listen to Ian!
Episode 224: Starving for Darkness #11 - The Shared Vulnerability of Darkness
June 11, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBDajana is a teaching assistant and PhD student at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management at the Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad, Serbia. She is passionate about preserving the night sky and “bringing back the stars to our kids!”. Hear about her creativity in teaching about the night sky using animals, astro hikes, jazz and shared gratitude. You’ll be inspired.
Episode 223: #192 - Becoming Pseudo-Gods
June 09, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBTony Lawrence is an entrepreneur, technologist, and prophet of quantum possibilities through his current role as CEO of Light Rider. Yeah, you’ve heard physicists on TV talking about the quantum world and thought, “I have no idea what they’re talking about!” Well, review your notes because you are going to be selling this stuff in light bulbs soon. Tony tells you how the light bulbs you will be selling will make computer hacking and ransomware a thing of the past. Intrigued? List...
Episode 222: #191 - We Are Learning Lighting Controls Together
June 06, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBRuth Taylor currently serves as a program manager on the Advanced Lighting Team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where she currently manages the Next Generation Lighting Systems (NGLS) Program. Ruth is your first line of defense against crappy products and design. Get an inside look at how products you sell are tested at the PNNL.
Episode 221: Starving for Darkness #10 - Dark Skies and Living Outside The Cage
June 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBRyan Andreasen is the founder of Night Sky Science (https://nightskyscience.com/). Astrophotography and Night Sky Preservation is Ryan’s main mission along with getting folks to look up at night. In this episode you’ll hear about the wonder of “touching” the Orion Nebula and about how the night sky can induce powerful emotions. When advocating for dark skies, avoiding words like “dark” or “pollution” can help bureaucrats accept the message. You’ll even hear Michael read some T.S. ...
Episode 220: #190 - Photofinishing, Flying and Thermal Management
June 01, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBTaisha Bezzo is the National Sales Director for Evluma. She’s been with the company since 2014. Taisha has an MBA from Harvard, a pilot’s license, and she does Ironman Triathlons in her spare time. She’s going to tell you about LED’s, controls, and thermal management. Taisha is very smart, so listen up!
Episode 219: #189 - Putting The Light Where It's Never Been
May 27, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBJustin Wendt has served as Rohinni’s Chief Technology Officer for over five years where he leads and directs Rohinni’s global teams in Research and Development of next generation die placement equipment and the products the technology is used to create. You won’t believe the mind-blowing technology being created - mini and micro-LED’s that are as small as 30 microns thick. The applications are just beginning to be explored.
Episode 218: Starving for Darkness #9 - Restoring the Sacred
May 26, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBMark Clipsham - Architect, builder, consultant, master planner. While battling through his allergies, Mark has a thing or two to say about the growth economy, the constant drive for profit and what drives him nuts about the current state of lighting. Mark offers some ideas on sustaining the environment and bringing back the dark skies.
Episode 217: Starving for Darkness #8 - Dark Skies and Your Grandmother's Broccoli
May 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBDeborah Burnett, ASID, AASM, is an internationally recognized registered design professional, Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the field of Light + Health, and member of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Deborah is going to let you in on some fascinating facts about the “spring surge,” proper lighting in horse stalls, the moon’s importance in photosynthesis, the suprachiasmatic nucleus, and how the industry selling lighting for your circadian rhythms has become a racket.
Episode 216: #188 - The ARCHLight Summit Goes Beyond Lighting
May 17, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBThis week we are joined by Kelly Roberts and Laura McDonald Stewart of the advisory board for the ARCHLight Summit at the Dallas Market Center this fall. We discussed the value of cross-professional networking events; there’s value in designers and architects meeting other professionals in this field. As well this year's programming being more broad than just lighting concerns. Of course any in-person event right now has to confront the ongoing pandemic; and we all discussed how th...
Episode 215: Starving for Darkness #7 - Awe Beyond Thought
May 13, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBCheck out Frank’s Night Sky Resource Center (www.nightskyresourcecenter.org) for some awesome astrophotography. Frank advocates seeing the night sky as a resource just like water and air. He tells us about his personal sense of “awe” in seeing the night sky and how you too can lose your self awareness in experiencing the sublime. It’s better than Ayahuasca tea!
Episode 214: #187 - There's No Maximum Light Limit
May 12, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBBrian Amundson of Pacific Lamp Wholesale and president-elect of NAILD is with us to discuss his experience working in dark sky lighting projects. As distributors we sell what customers ask for; and even if we wanted to pursue dark sky instals we are not always clear on what really is compliant versus just “friendly.” Brian shares his experience working on coastal projects with turtle- and bird-centric lighting and as well as partnering with a native tribe to fix up a ski hill. From...
Episode 213: #186 - The Opportunity to be a Hero
May 07, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBSteve Perry is the product trainer for the current sales staff at 1000Bulbs and works as liaison officer for its legendary CEO Kim Pedersen which includes among other things, new product lines, marketing strategies and vendor relations. Steve talks about sales strategies and techniques, incandescent lighting, Zoom, Amazon and learning from disagreeable people. If you want to learn, you might as well learn from the biggest. Don’t stop believing! (Sorry Steve!)
Episode 212: Starving for Darkness #6 - Selling Darkness - The Paradigm Shift
May 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBJim is one of the world’s top authorities on lighting design and applied illuminating engineering. He invented the BUG system that directly affects dark skies. Jim tells us how many birds are killed by the Twin Towers light columns and how vertical light is better than horizontal light. Listen to what happened when Jim joined the board of IES, or when WELL inspectors asked him to close the blinds, or what happened when a cheap metal halide bulb exploded. Don’t mess around with Jim!...
Episode 211: Starving for Darkness #5 - Darkness is an Endangered Species
April 28, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBIf you have crappy sleep or like wearing sunglasses you should probably listen to this. Dr. Rosenthal talks about sleep apnea and electric blue light, hormones and electric blue light, melatonin, proteins, cancer and well, electric blue light...you see where we’re going with this. You need to give this one a listen!
Episode 210: #185 - Life is One of the Biggest Lies of LED
April 26, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBWhere does it cost $1500 bucks to change a light bulb? Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are one of the most useful chemicals ever invented. Big surprise LED manufacturers make ridiculous claims about lamp life; what else is new. And we talk to Marty about the limits of LED's in hazardous locations along with the challenges of sourcing parts and materials for existing legacy lamps and ballasts which still dominate these applications.