Around the world different people are talking about how they use full-spectrum lighting in their day-to-day lives.  We feature some of the best here.

HEALTH
Healing Power of Light – What You Didn’t Know About Your Anatomy …
When indoors, do what you can to get full-spectrum lighting and avoid florescent lighting. In other words, you need to care about the quality of the light you’re getting. Master “normal abdominal breathing” – that’s the method devised …

About me: The “Winter Blues”
Because light exposure is such a critical element to this seasonal depression, changing light bulbs will also help lighten your mood. Simply changing your usual office light bulbs to full spectrum light bulbs will help. ..

Light & the Eyes | Donelle Clarke’s Blog
And, it also explains why decreased melatonin is found in those with insomnia ( and why full spectrum light is beneficial for healthy sleep). Serotonin: The Mood Elevator Conversely, serotonin, the brain hormone associated with mood …

Beat the Winter Blues | Grains and Greens
Although various things may be responsible for SAD,lack of exposure to full- spectrum natural light appears to be the most logical explanation. The antidepressant effect of the light therapy is probably due to restoring proper melatonin …

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Other people benefit from light therapy, which simulates daylight. Special light boxes or panels might be recommended, while other people feel better just by using full-spectrum light bulbs in their lamps. …

‘Shrink Rap’ shares how to beat the winter blues
Purchase a “full spectrum light” to put on your desk at work, near the computer at home, anywhere you spend a lot of time indoors in fall and winter. …

PHOTOGRAPHY
Learn How to Take Good Pictures of People and Pets | Christian Little
Use natural light when possible. If using indoor lighting, opt for lamps with full spectrum bulbs. Low ceiling light usually creates pretty bad shadows. If you’re taking pictures that you think you may want to keep, always shoot in high …

REPTILE CARE
Lighting Your Green Iguana Cage
In that scenario, you need to make darn sure you have some powerful full- spectrum lighting inside the iguana cage. Fortunately, technology has come a long way in this regard. You’ll find a wide variety of reptile lights available these …

WORK BETTER
Olympia Timberland Library receives HVAC & lighting system …
“Full-spectrum lighting, which closely resembles outdoor light, was installed over the last two nights. It’s warm, bright and inviting In here! It’s also quieter as the new lights emit less white noise,” said Heywood. …

MISCELLANEOUS
On Writing & Publishing by Robin D. Owens: Light
My desk lamp, a light that uses a full spectrum bulb, has gone out. I have been writing more at night, but now, with the overhead ceiling light, this is just odd. As I say in my Survive To Write Seminars (How to hang in there until …

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Around the world different people are talking about how they use full-spectrum lighting in their day-to-day lives.  We feature some of the best here.

HEALTH
Eliminating Distractions
Full-spectrum lighting is preferred in an autism education facility, but non-fluorescent lighting uses considerably more energy, and an operations budget …

Paint the Winter Blues Yellow With 6 Coping Strategies
I replaced regular light bulbs in my house with full spectrum ones. I use full spectrum light bulbs because they simulate sunlight. But any electric light …

Barb’s Daily Dose: Migraines and Lighting
One teacher blogged that when she convinced the principal to replace fluorescents with full spectrum bulbs the number of students going to the nurse with headaches dropped from several a period to none. There are multiple similar …

WHAT’S NEW AT MY HOUSE: Chapter 10, Page 16, Book 10
If you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder like I do, consider Full Spectrum Light bulbs in a few of your reading lights in your home and even perhaps your work space. In addition to diminished mood, our bodies’ ability to …

miso soup: Staying Healthy in the Autumn According to Traditional …
Full-spectrum light bulbs are helpful to people who are emotionally affected by the darker days of winter. These bulbs produce light the same spectrum of sun light. In Chinese Medicine, we make an effort to avoid “catching a cold or …

WORK BETTER
10 Questions To Ask About Your Work Office
Natural light is the healthiest, as it will help you be more productive and reduce your stress and fatigue. If you don’t have access to direct sunlight, then full-spectrum tubes, rather than fluorescent tubes, will help you feel better …

Healthy Schools, Healthy Kids | Corporate Responsibility
Another study demonstrated that students attending schools in full spectrum light attended schools an average of 3+ more days per year, and owing to additional vitamin D they received, they had 9 times less dental decay and grew 2.1 cm …

PLANT CARE
Growing vegetables, herbs and plants inside, no direct sunlight …
It’s difficult to grow herbs with no sun light but you can use full spectrum fluorescent tubes and hang the lights a few inches above the plants for greater light intensity. Posted in herbs. « Is this a freaky coincidence or what about …

Indoor Gardening Reviews: Indoor Grow Lights and Light Spectrum …
MH lamps are often enhanced red spectrum, but also a full spectrum light bulbs and blue spectrum. Overhead light: These grow lights are very effective in producing the spectrum of red light. They also have a long duration of use up to …

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Thank you to Ilkka, Tuomo and Sarah for providing the images.

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To celebrate this, we’d like to share a story with you from a client in the Netherlands: He is a specialist for rare plants and grows (among others) a special type of amaryllis from South Africa. Now after he was away for some travels and without proper lighting as usual, on his return the plant seemed to have died off and the leafs already showed an unhealthy yellow colour.

Even though he thought it was too late, he felt to give Viva-Lite a go and installed 2×80W Viva-Lite Full Spectrum tubes just to find that after only 3 days of being lit with Viva-Lite, his amaryllis came back to perfect condition adding “this result is absolutely amazing”:

Since then we had many enquiries and lot of feedback from people who use Viva-Lite for their plants and animals alike (e.g. fish, aquarium etc.), many with similar stories.

We thought of sharing this good news with you at the beginning of the New Year.

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Light brings our environment to life. In interior design, it is an independent element, also referred to as the fourth dimension of a room. DOMUS stands for much more than simple lighting. DOMUS lamps have a distinctive quality – their light is pleasantly and soothing – they combine perfect function with the concept of man as the measure of all things.

DOMUS lamps have a great variety of forms and you’ll be surprised by the atmosphere they can create. Discover light as an element of interior design, for living and dreaming.

Inspired by DOMUS, VIVA-LITE has created one of the first full-spectrum based warmwhite energy-saving lamps with a CRI of well over 90 Ra. That means that even for a warmwhite ESL lamp, the colour reproduction is extremely high, thus making DOMUS lights look even nicer when lighted with VIVA-LITE lamps.

Therefore you now have a choice – wether it be fullspectrum daylight lamps or fullspectrum warmwhite lamps – VIVA-LITE and DOMUS make a perfect couple for any living or working environment. Be sure to check out this new set of lamps and lighting options.

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The farmer wanted to light up the barn with daylight so the milk production goes up. She also painted the ceiling which in combination with Viva-Lite it makes a huge difference as you can see for yourself in the following before / after pictures:

Thanks to our distributor in Holland who made these pictures!

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A special treat was one house lighted fully with VIVA-LITE and created by lighting designer Ilkka Pekanheimo from Ad-Lux:

About the Housing Fair:

The ca. 40 fair houses built on the verdant housing fair area in Valkeakoski form a multi-faceted combination. An extensible, unique house for a first home, a TV-house and a passive house with a vivid design are good examples of the extensive selection of houses. The fair includes houses built in both traditional and modern styles, one- and two-storey solutions, stone and wood houses – not to mention the latest trends and experimental building.

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Dave – one of our kind customers in Australia has sent us the following pictures of an energy saving lamp with the Viva-Lite Spectrum and the Sunlight as a comparison:

Both photos were taken through so-called “Spectral-Glasses” which you can get in many stores and on the internet. Or buy them directly in the Viva-Lite International Online-Store and compare for yourself…

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Many interesting topics were exchanged and it was also decided which new full spectrum lighting models and products shall become part of the future Viva-Lite product range. Have a look at the following photo impressions:

For more photo impressions and other pictures, please follow our flickr photo feed…

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