Concern Over LED Street Light Installation
The author has concerns about the methodology of installing LED streetlights. In the Havendale area, the old halogen lights were placed about 100 feet apart (one on each pole), giving a well-lit stretch for the entire length of the road. In this new dispensation, the new, brighter LED lights have now been placed on every […]
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New Map Shows the Dark Side of Artificial Light at Night
The greatest value of this study from Falchi and his colleagues may be the baselines it sets for policy debates about light pollution and any associated changes in the level of nighttime illumination. The atlas’s finding about the pernicious skyglow effects of blue-white LEDs, Longcore says, “is a message that incentivizing conversion to cheap blue-white […]
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Streetlights Appear to Have No Effect on Crime Rate
The International Dark Sky Association indicates that there is no clear scientific evidence that increased outdoor lighting deters crimes. It may make us feel safer, but has not been shown to make us safer. Link to Article PDF
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Bringing Back the Night: A Fight Against Light Pollution
But no less a motivation, says France’s Environment Ministry, is to “reduce the print of artificial lighting on the nocturnal environment” — a powerful acknowledgement that excessive use of lighting in many parts of the world is endangering our health and the health of the ecosystems on which we rely. The good news, however, is […]
Read MoreTurn Off All The Unnecessary Lights
For the environmentally concerned sky-watchers among us, it isn’t enough that the world should go green. It should go dark green. As in, “Turn off all the unnecessary lights, please.” Light pollution may not rank up there with climate change as cause for alarm, but a vocal community of stargazers believes it to be an […]
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