Did you know that 2015 is the International Year of Light & Light Based Technologies?
UNESCO delegates from Ghana and Mexico introduced the idea for an International Year of Light in 2012 to raise awareness of the achievements of Light Science and it’s applications.
UNESCO and a number of scientific organizations, educational institutions, non profits, technology platforms and the private sector are sponsoring the IYL 2015 which will include exhibits, workshops, conferences.
Today is the opening ceremony in Paris at UNESCO’s headquarters kicking off a year of coordinated activities throughout the world.
100 partners from 85 countries all working together.
The purpose of IYL 2015 is to raise awareness of the achievements of Light Science and it’s applications. The IYL goal is to ensure that international policymakers are made aware of the problem solving potential of light technology.
What does this mean to you? Perhaps you think not much since light whether natural (the sun) or artificial (light bulbs) is something we take for granted and we’ve forgotten most of our high school science.
Light based technologies can provide solutions to an array of global challenges – in energy, in education, in agriculture and, of course, health.
We are human photocells. Light is the ultimate biological nutrient. Gabriel Cousins, MD
http://www.light2015.org/Home.html
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