Signify Academy podcasts & audiobooks

Interview with Toby Morgan (Climate Group) about the trends in building decarbonization, also available in a white paper from Signify, in collaboration with The Climate Group.

The link to the white paper can be found here.

Today’s offices and homes can be dizzyingly complicated. With plumbing, wiring, insulation, and other systems, an entire world exists beneath the surface of an apparently simple property. Many people are unaware how the buildings they live or work in function the way they do. They simply hope that they work the way they want them to. 

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Links to relevant source information can be found on the blog page. 

(broadcasted via LinkedIn in July 2023)
To mark our five-year anniversary as Signify, we are hosting a series of conversations with leading global experts. Together we will reflect on the challenges and discuss some of the solutions, innovations and collective efforts needed to address climate, circularity, food availability, health & well-being and much more.  (contact us for more information)

To kick off this new series with Toby Morgan from Climate Group and Harry Verhaar from Signify. 

Science is clear that we must drastically reduce our emissions if we are to avoid the disastrous effects of climate change. To reach net zero by 2050, we must act now, reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030. This commitment requires that we act with the conviction that the economy will transform into a very different model.  

40% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings and, if left unchecked, they're set to double by 2050. Energy efficiency has a vital role to play in lowering energy demand, reducing emissions and driving the clean energy transition. 

In the first of this series of conversations, we get under the skin of corporate and municipal climate action, discussing how public and private organizations can work together to remove barriers and accelerate climate action in the built environment.  

- Aligning individual, municipal and corporate action  
- Four building blocks of successful climate action 
- Delivering a just energy transition 
- Beyond efficiency - new business models for the sustainable economy

#BrighterConversation #BrighterLivesBetterWorld #WeAreSignify 

World Refugee Day is 20 June 2023

On 20 June every year, the world marks World Refugee Day to honor the strength and courage of refugees, create awareness of the plight of people forced to flee, and advocate for refugees’ right to safety.

links
the Global Trends Report 2021 from the UNHCR
the 2022 compendium on the Safe from the Start program
Signify Foundation

Energy-saving lighting blackouts put structural issues in the shadows
Turning off the lights is not the answer to your energy problems.

One of our episodes coming from our sustainability channel.
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Find out more on how making the Green Switch can benefit your city and citizens, and our planet.
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Cutting energy costs and reducing carbon footprint are the primary reasons why most utilities and local governments deploy smart street lighting. However, tremendous operational efficiencies also can be achieved by pairing smart lighting platforms with streetlight operations software — a step that is often overlooked. 

Interact connected lighting system and management software provides a robust infrastructure to improve city services, enhance citizen sense of safety, beautify public spaces and encourage civic pride. With over 3 million streetlight points connected today, Interact is the leading connected lighting system which reduces energy costs and increases efficiency enabling customers to reinvest savings in new smart city projects.   TerraGo StreetlightOps is the industry’s only software platform dedicated specifically to meet the unique challenges of smart streetlight deployment and operations. With over 5 million streetlights under management today, StreetlightOps delivers out-of-the-box integration with Interact APIs and a host of features designed, tested and operationally-proven smart streetlight operations.

Learn how the combination of Interact APIs and TerraGo’s StreetlightOps software can help accelerate energy savings, reduce maintenance expenses and increase environmental benefits with two smart streetlighting and connected infrastructure technology experts: Yong Liang Eng, the Global Segment Director - Cities at Signify, and Dave Basil, the President & CEO at TerraGo.

More information can be found on the Interact website and the TerraGo website

In ancient times, our ancestors used to ground wheat in a traditional 'chakki' or a mini stone flour mill -The varieties of wheat and millets were grown in paddy fields adjoining their homes. Fruits were plucked off the trees grown in their backyard- have you heard of the 'wax apple' fruit or 'Chambakka' or the 'Jackfruit'? Food was always 'Farm to table' - a concept that is gaining a lot of attention today. This is just one in many stories that used to be our life when we were young. Forgotten just before the pandemic but now we see the benefit in eating 'healthy', living a stress-free life, bringing a sense of balance in our 'work-life'... Like..
By Fancy George CEO Thomas Workplace Design

• Getting in touch with nature - or going for a ‘Nature connect’ barefoot walk that stimulates the soles of your feet, Hugging a tree, talking to plants, growing your own vegetables in the office/ your homes etc.
• Living a life without medication - which would mean a deep look into the nutritional value of foods served in the cafeteria
• Stressing on the importance of getting in touch with your inner self through yoga and meditation 
• Being minimalistic in our homes and work habits – from minimizing our waste and pushing to adopt clean energy with a zero-carbon impact on our world.
• Being a global citizen – contributing and supporting the global community and disengaging from geopolitics.

This system exists in societies which have living traditions — the human population therein learnt its limits. It sensed that key resources — clean water, air, food and energy — needed for survival are scarce. 
Hence, these societies used these in prudent ways. Farmers would therefore rotate crops in agriculture, city dwellers would preserve rainwater, etc.

And finally - here is a solution that has been heavily ignored and should be considered an important aspect of workplace planning

Most times we are inside a conditioned space with artificial light and air for a minimum of 8 hours a day – so maybe we need to mandatorily conduct our work outside of the office on a regular basis, build outdoor meeting spaces or collaborate in a natural setting or it could be under a tree …. Maybe a Bodhi tree, after all the BUDDHA found enlightenment under one!

You can download the full SmartCitiesWorld Insight Reports here and more episodes can be found via our webpage.

How cities can become climate action heroes (make the green switch, lights on, carbon off)

Why connected LED lighting should be the starting point for contending with climate change and the energy crisis—an exclusive insight report in collaboration with Smart Cities World.

SmartCitiesWorld Insight Reports examine an emerging or growing trend in smart cities, highlighting progress so far and future development, as well as spotlighting case studies from cities around the world. In this report, we explore how cities can act now on climate change and the energy crisis through the implementation of smart lighting technology.

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