LIGHT AND PROJECT
The Southwest Corridor Light Rail Project is a proposed MAX light rail line that would provide a 30-minute trip between Downtown Portland and Tualatin. The high-capacity transit project was planned for one of the most congested travel corridors in the region, and to support the estimated 400,000 new residents expected by 2040. It would include coordinated investments to foster connected, affordable communities where all people can live, work and thrive.
TriMet, Metro and other project partners began planning efforts on the light rail line in 2009. From 2016-2020, TriMet and Metro worked on the preliminary design and environmental review phases of the project, resulting in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and the Conceptual Design Report.
The design and alignment concepts shown on this website are based on the Conceptual Design Report, published in September 2020. If the project were to restart at a future date, these designs could change.
The PDB delivery method was approved by the Metro Board in October 2021. The PDB delivery method brings the contractor and their designer into the project early, to take the design from approximately 30 to 60% to approximately 85% completed, while collaborating with Metro and third parties, and then prices the construction costs.
Construction of the Lynnwood Link Extension is now underway. This is a major milestone to bringing light rail to north Seattle, Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace and Lynnwood by 2024! Sign up for project updates and alerts to stay in the know.
The Green Light Art Project showcases public art on traffic signal boxes around the City of Dunwoody. Phase 1 of the project was installed in October 2022 and showcases five Storefront Art Exhibit pieces created by Dunwoody High School students. Phase 2 was installed March 2023 with artwork from 2 Dunwoody High School students and 3 professional artists.
A-R-T & Associates donated the first five wraps. A-R-T & Associates' President and Owner, Christopher Drew is a Dunwoody resident. The wraps are expected to last three to five years. Additional artwork will be coming soon in future phases. A project of the Economic Development Department. Video: Unveiling of Green Light Art.
PGLMD Partners are required to have sufficient exterior lighting that will produce clear videos with distinct images at all times of the day and night. PGLMD Partners are responsible for the cost and maintenance of exterior lighting if deemed necessary. In addition, PGLMD Partners will be required to install a flashing green light and a PGLMD sign which will signify to customers and community members that they are a PGLMD participant.
On March 15, the Office of the Legislative Auditor released a second report capturing the findings of a special, independent review of the Metropolitan Council's decision making for the METRO Green Line Extension project.
ICN partners with both national and local media outlets and acts as a force multiplier of climate journalism across the country. It operates reporting hubs in Louisville, KY; Columbus, OH; Salt Lake City, UT; and Berkeley, CA, and has built a network of more than 50 partner outlets. In 2021, ICN launched an environmental justice reporting project focused on the intersection of climate change and social and racial injustice.
Porch Light projects are driven by issues that have tangible effects on local communities, such as mental health, substance use, spirituality, homelessness, trauma, immigration, war, and neighborhood safety. The targeted outcomes of any Porch Light project include:
An ongoing list of brilliant murals and transformed public spaces throughout Philadelphia are the final products of year-round Porch Light workshops, community meetings, health forums, and paint days. A finished Porch Light artwork shines a light on the people who helped bring the project to life and challenges social stigmas around mental and behavioral health, offering a fresh window of opportunity for continued progress and community growth.
You can find blue LED tea lights on Amazon here. You can find blue Christmas lights here. You can set them in your window when you set up the rest of your festive holiday décor. Optionally, you can also display a thin blue line flag to show further solidarity to your local police force. Check one here.
The MouseLight project generates datasets of whole mouse brains imaged at submicron resolution that allows reconstructions of complete axonal arbors of individual neurons across the entire mouse brain.
An important and challenging goal in modern neuroscience is to understand the brain-wide wiring of neural circuits. To address this, MouseLight is generating axonal collateral maps of individual neurons across the entire mouse brain using high-speed, high-resolution light microscopy.
The principal goal of the MouseLight Project is to develop an efficient pipeline to map the complete axonal projections of individual neurons across the entire mouse brain and utilize this platform to generate projection maps of multiple labeled neurons from diverse brain areas. This is a challenging task because on the one hand axons are tiny, with diameters of less than 100 nanometers; tracing axons thus requires resolution and sensitivity at the cutting edge of what is possible with optical microscopy. On the other hand, axonal arbors are huge; individual axons of projection neurons can traverse tens of millimeters across the mouse brain before reaching their targets. We plan to leverage a fast, volumetric serial two-photon microscope designed and developed at Janelia to image the entire mouse brain with submicron spatial resolution, sufficient to resolve and trace individual axons.
Plymouth Light Station comprises Plymouth Light (aka Gurnet Light), a Keepers cottage, and Fort Andrew. It is located 3.8 nautical miles Northeast of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Gurnet Light was first built in 1768 and in 1790 became home to the first woman lighthouse-keeper.
The Veterans and Military Service Committee engages NACo and its members to develop and highlight county best practices and policies to promote innovative programs, services and benefits for our nation’s military, veteransLearn More Veterans Affairs Reports & Toolkits Operation Green Light for Veterans: County Participation Toolkit Find resources to help your county participate in Operation Green Light, including information on converting municipal lighting to green, outreach materials and more. Reports & Toolkits document06 30 12:45 pm Reports & Toolkits Operation Green Light for Veterans: County Participation ToolkitLearn More SPONSORSSPECIAL THANKSSpecial thanks to the New York State Association of Counties (NYSAC), the New York State County Veteran Service Officers' Association (NYS CVSOA) and the New York State County Executives Association (NYSCEA) for launching Operation Green Light in New York state in 2021
Project Drawdown defines our LED Lighting solution as the use of efficient LEDs in commercial and residential buildings. This solution replaces incandescent or fluorescent commercial and residential lighting.
LED lighting offers great potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in residential and commercial buildings due to the size of the lighting sector. Because they use relatively little energy, LEDs can be powered with small solar cells to replace kerosene lamps and their noxious fumes and greenhouse gas emissions. LED lighting is expected to take over the residential sector nearly entirely by 2050.
We used the lumen, a measure of the visible light emitted by a source, as the implementation unit. The functional unit is lumen-hour, which describes the amount of visible light produced. For residential buildings, we compared only the lamps, not the entire luminaire (housing). For commercial buildings, we compared the entire luminaire.
We estimated total lighting demand separately for residential and commercial buildings. These were based on our Integrated Buildings total addressable market model, which uses numerous sources to collectively calculate the total addressable markets of building floor area, roof area, lighting, and all other floor-area-driven total addressable markets used in the building sector. We subdivided the estimated areas by building type (residential and commercial) and by building region. From a total floor area estimate, we applied an estimated lighting demand per floor area from several sources, including the International Energy Agency, to get the annual lighting demand market for LED lighting household (37 petalumen-hours in 2018), and LED lighting commercial (62 petalumen-hours in 2018).
We estimated current adoption of the LED Lighting solution (the amount of functional demand supplied by the solution in 2018, with 2014 as the base year) to be 3 percent of the commercial lighting market and 2 percent of the residential lighting market.
We integrated our LED solutions with others in the Buildings sector by first prioritizing all solutions according to the point of impact on building energy usage. This meant that building envelope solutions such as Insulation were first, building systems such as Building Automation Systems were second, and building applications such as High-Efficiency Heat Pumps and LED Lighting were last. As a result, the commercial LED energy-saving potential was reduced to represent the energy savings of the higher-priority solutions. We did not take integration effects into account in the residential model because no other Project Drawdown solution affected household lighting.
In Scenario 1, we estimate the emissions reduction of LED lighting to be approximately 14.45 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent in commercial buildings and residences. The net savings to implement was US$1.89 trillion and net lifetime operational savings were US$4.14 trillion.
Despite the high purchase price, the total life-cycle costs of LED commercial lighting are typically somewhat lower than those of conventional technologies due to the low operating costs. The high energy efficiency, reduced operating costs, and reduced amount of greenhouse gas emissions are considered to be the main benefits of LEDs, but the much longer service life is also very attractive. 59ce067264