Light Pollution-Links

General information on light pollution

http://www.darksky.org
International Dark Sky Assoc
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http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/44/lightpoll.html
The Universe in the Classroom - Light Pollution

http://www.skykeepers.org/
Web resource providing an overview on the many facets of light pollution
with an emphasis on California

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7225/full/457027a.html
"Time to turn off the lights"
Malcolm Smith, Nature 457, 27 (1 January 2009)

Light at night and damage to ecosystems

http://www.flap.org
Fatal Light Awareness Program-bird collisions

http://www.urbanwildlands.org/abstracts.html
Report on the ecological consequences of artificial night lighting

http://www.urbanwildlands.org/Resources/LongcoreRich2004.pdf
Paper on ecological light pollution by Longcore and Rich

Light pollution and energy waste

http://content.calgary.ca/CCA/City+Hall/Business+Units/Roads/Streetlights/
EnviroSmart+Streetlight+Retrofit/FAQs.htm?Prn=1
How the city of Calgary changed all street lights to full cut off to save energy costs

Light at night and human health

http://docs.darksky.org/Docs/AMA%20Light%20pollution.pdf
American Medical Association House of Delegates
Resolution: New England 1 (A-09)

http://www.ehponline.org/members/2009/117-1/focus.html
"Missing the Dark: Health Effects of Light Pollution"
Ron Chepesiuk, Environmental Health Perspectives
Vol 117; Number1; Jan. 2009

http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_164074252.html
Dr Blask speaks out on artificial lights

http://www.darksky.org/links/photobio.html
General information on the science of circadian rhythms and light at night

http://www.darksky.org/links/pauleylhh.pdf
Review paper by Dr S. Pauley on light at night and human health with multiple
references

http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/65/23/11174
Light at night, low melatonin, and breast cancer in humans; Paper in Cancer
Research by Dr DE Blask

http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2008/03/14/turning-out-the-lights.html
Turning Out the Lights - the dangers of a bright night are becoming more apparent

http://www.skykeepers.org/handouts/pauleylhh.pdf
The Light at Night - Human Breast Cancer Connections

Light at night and astronomy

http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky/article_84_1.asp
Astronomers and light pollution

http://starbulletin.com/2006/03/18/news/story12.html
A project for Hawai'i students to measure LP's effect on the night sky

http://www.hawastsoc.org/pollution.html
Hawai'i Astronomical Assoc. multiple links

http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky/article_81_1.asp
The Bortle Dark Sky Scale-quantifying how dark your sky really is

http://skyandtelescope.com/resources/darksky/
Saving Dark Skies - Sky & Telescope page

http://www.lightpollution.it/worldatlas/pages/fig1.htm
World Atlas of Light Pollution from space

Lighting fixtures - dark sky compliant

http://www.skykeepers.org/odlight.html
Pictures of good fixtures from Skykeepers web site

Hawai'i ordinances

List of other lighting ordinances

http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/PROJECTS/STARRY_NIGHTS/LiteLynx.html
Multiple sources

http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/dsd/Codes___Ordinances/Tucson_Lighting_
Code.pdf
City of Tucson Pima County Lighting Code, Separate environmental
(E) zones i.e. urban, residential, areas
around Kitt Peak Observatory

Protecting and treasuring the night sky

http://ghonis2.ho8.com/POLCforDCNR.htm
Protecting the Night Sky Resource of Cherry Springs Dark Sky Park

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/travel/escapes/14dark.html?
Dark Sky, Bright Lights Over Pennsylvania - NY Times, Sept. 14, 2007

http://www.upstateastro.org/stars/cssp.html
Cherry Springs State Park - A National Public Observatory and star gazing destination

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/cherrysprings.aspx
Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania's first dark sky state park

http://www.selene-ny.org/downloads/lightfixtures.pdf
Examples of Acceptable/Unacceptable Lighting Fixtures in the Town of
Branford, CT

Hawai'i light pollution web sites

http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/PROJECTS/STARRY_NIGHTS/
Web page of UH Prof. Lee Altenberg; Efforts to achieve a Maui County dark sky ordinance

http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/PROJECTS/STARRY_NIGHTS/NEWS/
ADVERTISER/ADVERTISER.2002-1-24/
Maui star-lovers want dark skies - Advertiser; Jan '02

http://starbulletin.com/2006/03/18/news/story12.html
Isle youths to join global star hunt; Star Bulletin, March, '06