Curbing Light Pollution

Our club is becoming increasingly concerned about night-time light pollution and its many effects on our environment and enjoyment of dark skies. This careless consumption of energy only adds to atmospheric pollution and to global warming. Far worse it denies all of us, especially our children, that soul lifting, awe inspiring vision of our universe that a night under a star studded dark sky offers! We welcome your support in this regard. Listed are various links that contain information on light pollution.

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance

International Dark Sky Association

Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP)

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky

http://calgary.rasc.ca/lp/index.html  

http://www.kwic.com/~amj/light-pollution.html 

http://www.darkskysociety.org/links.cfm

http://skynews.ca/pages/light_pollution.html

Following are some articles in text format on light pollution..

RASC (Royal Astronomical Society of Canada) Bulletin of June 1995, October 1995, December 1995.

The July/August 2001 issue of SkyNews Magazine on page 12 has an article entitled "Reducing Light Pollution-Is It Possible?". It discusses what the city of Calgary has done and the benefits.

The May/June 2004 issue of SkyNews has an article on page 25 where Walmart in Huntsville, ON converted their lights to the full cut-off type in their parking lots.