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Investments in lighting will make a better world

Nairobi, Kenya: Lighting has extraordinary powers. It can change the way residents identify with their city and have a surprisingly positive affect on local businesses.

Take the Corpus Christi Bridge in Texas, for example. Built in the 1950s, time and weather had taken their toll and it had been unlit for a decade. But in 2010 City Mayor Joe Adame attended a conference where he heard about the benefits of LED lighting. Convinced, he pushed ahead with a public/private partnership to equip the bridge with 11,000 individually addressable colour-changing nodes.

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