Artificial Light at Night

Sunday, 20 May 2018 - 11:00am to 11:30am
Drawing of a night sky bStuart McMillen. See his work at http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/

For many centuries the nightscape was the moon and stars.  Now we have many sources of artificial light such as street lighting, roadway lighting, stadiums, parking lots, landscaping, residential, buildings pedestrian and bicycling pathways.

In this edition we find out why too much light at night is harmful to animals and humans. The new LED lighting that is currently replacing more orange lights is especially harmful and citizens must call for action now before more inappropriate LED lights are installed.

Learn how well thought through outside lighting design and well designed types of lamps, that often point the light downwards, can minimize the impacts of lights at night. We point to the International Dark Sky Association as a source of information and campaigns to reduce artificial light at night.

Organisations: International Dark Sky Association website

                       International Dark Sky Association Facebook

Our guests were presenters at the Fenner Conference for the Environment in the Shine Dome, Canberra on April 6th, 2018.


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Sunday 11:00am to 11:30am
Local and global environmental issues from grassroots, activist perspectives with a strong social justice focus. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.

Presenter

Bec Horridge, Jacob Gamble, Judith Peppard, Phil Evans

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