Christmas In Minnesota Is A Little Greener This Year

This year, greeting those seeking some extra holiday spirit at the governor’s mansion in Minnesota is a Christmas tree standing over 20 feet and illuminated by three Chauvet Colorado™ 3 units installed by Norcostco . The units allow the color of the tree to remain in a constant state of flux, leading passers-by to wonder, “How do they do that?”...

Green School: Pitzer College

Marian Sandberg

Pitzer College in Claremont, CA, launched a new initiative to “go greener” with the opening of a brand new “green” residential hall (Gold LEED-certified sustainable dorms) that included a grand opening celebration featuring lighting design by alumnus/trustee Marc Broidy and senior theatre major Vanessa “Nessa” Rundle. Robert Redford, Pitzer College president Laura Skandera Trombley, and Ed Begley, Jr. were among those who attended the evening's activities....

Stageline Group Is Building Green For The Future

Construction of Stageline Group’s new plant is well underway in L’Assomption, Quebec, Canada. Representing an investment of $5 million, this expansion project features the latest environmental technologies applied to industrial buildings. The first phase of the project will feature a 35,000-square-foot building, regrouping under one roof the production line of the largest stage models and mobile marketing units, maintenance, and preparation of rental units and administrative space including the headquarter of MSR (Mobile Stage Rentals), the rental entity of the Stageline Group....

Age Of Architainment

By Lisa Murphy

As long as people have been living and working in buildings, they have been lighting them. Imagine cavemen burning sticks outside the walls of their caves 2,000 years ago to scare off beasts and conjure spirits. Now fast forward to the year 1969, when the concept of illumination as applied to architecture was solidified by the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), who set raising the profile of architectural lighting design as one of their first objectives....

Redrawing The Blueprint

By Robert Cashill

When Theatre Crafts was launched in 1967, the word “venue” had one meaning: theatre. Forty years later, “venue” encompasses retail centers, themed entertainment projects, houses of worship — pretty much anything with a touch of the theatrical....

Color Kinetics Revitalizes World's Tallest Tower With Intelligent LED Lighting

Signifying another milestone in the adoption of LED sources for large-scale landmark projects, Color Kinetics Inc.’s LED lighting technology is dynamically transforming the world's tallest freestanding tower, the CN Tower in Toronto. The installation was unveiled to the public in a lighting ceremony at sunset on June 28....

Getting Green

By Patrick Dierson

I simply don't get it. Bono is hailed as a humanitarian for helping to fight hunger and AIDS in Africa by starting the ONE Foundation, but when I bring two canvas bags with me to Whole Foods instead of using their checkout bags, all my friends call me a tree-hugger. I hadn't truly realized just how un-hip it was to feel guilty about participating in the destruction of the world around you until I started getting ragged on by my so-called friends....