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These links provide access to a compilation of multimedia discussing the topic of light pollution. IDA has attempted to provide credit for the works cited below. To add your PSA, video, book, or other form of multimedia please contact our This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please note that IDA will NOT accept media with inappropriate or vulgar topics and/or language. Inclusion of media on this page is at the discretion of the IDA staff |
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Need-Less
Become a lighting designer and see how lamp choice makes a difference in nighttime viewing through this interactive simulation from need-less.org The need-less campaign reduces light pollution through a variety of innovative media. Visit the need-less site for more outstanding concepts, including posters and photography. WorldWide Telescope
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News Clips Featuring IDA Staff, Members, and AssociatesIDA Board member Debra Norvil provides an interview for WTTW. August 24, 2010 Some Chicago envrionmentalists want to turn down the external lights at night so that we can see something we haven't seen in years—the stars. We show you how they say it can happen. © WTTW
Maine Watch with Jennifer Brooks, MPBN Television, 03 April, 2009 (26:45) IDA Maine Section Leader Martha Sheils and member Robert Burgess were interviewed in depth on Maine Public Broadcast TV in an extended segment on light pollution.
Midnight Movie: Does Las Vegas Care about their Light Pollution? KCET's 'Social Connected' asks Dan Duriscoe about Las Vegas lights in Death Valley, NV (10 March, 2009) How to Reduce Light Pollution on GreenerBusiness Show featuring Starry Night Lights Light Pollution produced by Vail Plum TV, Narrated by IDA Colorado Section Leader Dr. Robert Stence Measuring Light Pollution in Skies Around Boston - WBZ TV Boston, Reported by Mish Michaels, 31 October, 2008 (2:26) IDA member Bernie Kosicki of Acton, MA, USA and board member Kelly Beatty offer their insights on light pollution in a local news segment.
Dark Sky - VVHTV (14 March, 2008) 30 minute documentary style production featuring Susan Harder, Section leader of IDA New York
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News Clips on Light PollutionOp-Ed: In the Dark by Ian Cheney and Emily Bolevice, The New York Times, 19 November, 2008. How We Do It: Energy Conservation through More Efficient Public Lighting Europarltv's Your Voice, Sweden and the Czech Republic are pioneering schemes for more energy-saving lights on the motorway and in public hearings. 28 October, 2008 Nighttime Lights from the International Space Station City Lights Cancel Out the Stars The Wall Street Journal, Video narrated by columnist Robert Lee Hotz
Fines Aim to Clean Light Pollution from Night Sky - KOB TV New Mexico 03 April, 2009 (2:09) New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation giving the Night Sky Protection Act some new teeth--in the form of fines for people who violate it. Read the Act >>
Upcoming Feature FilmsThe City Dark by Wicked Delicate Films Outside In by SV2 Studios
KOLD News 13 Go Green Commercial Against Light Pollution from skymanfede. Produced by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
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By IDA
Geoffrey Notkin from the Science Channel's "Meteorite Men" speaks on the importance of dark skies.
Light Pollution and Night Sky Quality (3:55) IDA member Francesco Giubbilini illustrates limiting magnitude classifications in a short, easy to understand slideshow. Fundamentals of Better Lighting from Dark Skies Northwest Sidewalk Astronomy & Light Pollution from starwalk33 Produced by IDA Chicago Aktion «Licht aus» - Lichtverschmutzung from Jetdroid. Produced by Dark Sky Switzerland
Accendiamo le stelle! (Let's light up the stars) an experiment of light shields by frazube (in Italian with English subtitles)
International Year of Astronomy 2009Light Pollution: The Problem... from pjholl light pollution - full quality from ArtOtaku Light Pollution from meskigirly Light Pollution - Effecting the Night Sky from tessalia87 Ant: Light Pollution from pinkyshow Light Pollution - bleah! from kwakhed23 Wasteful Lighting from LightingPolice |
Retro Video by IDA Protecting the Night (10:32) Produced by IDA Staff, Narrated by Jay Shadler |
Radio Shows
American Public MediaFlagstaff's skies in "A Prairie Home Companion" Listen here >>
National Public Radio (NPR)
Marketplace National Public Radio (NPR): (20 June, 2008)
IDA Technical Advisor Pete Strasser discusses light pollution problems and solutions on National Public Radio with Here & Now host Robin Young. Other Radio Stations
Think KERA Radio: - Light Pollution - "The End of Night" (10 November, 2008) Pete Strasser discusses good lighting, good neighbors, and good ecological practices in an hour-long interview with Krys Boyd.
IDA's Pete Strasser discusses quality lighting on WNYC Radio.
Distillations Chemical Heritage Foundation: Radio Show (13 June, 2008) Segment shines the light on skyglow from HPS and LPS luminaires.
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365 Days of Astronomy Podcasts
2010 2009 More Podcasts Astronomy Magazine: Podcast Interview (16 August, 2007) Former IDA Board President Bob Gent discusses how to fight light pollution at home.
Sky Glow and the Missing Milky Way: Darkness with Audrey Fischer (13:00)by "The Little Green People Show" in affiliation with the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and the Chicago Academy of Sciences
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Featured: Paul Bogard's "Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark" 2008 University of Nevada Press "There Once Was A Sky Full of Stars" by Bob Crelin and illustrated by Amie Ziner, 2007 Sky Publishing "At Day's Close: Night in Times Past" by A. Roger Ekirch, 2006 W. W. Norton "Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark" by Christopher Dewdney, 2005 Bloomsbury USA. Read the review in Nightscape Issue 68/69. (Must be a member and logged in to view this). "Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting" edited by C. Rich & T. Longcore, 2005 Island Press. "The Outermost House; A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod" by Henry Beston, 2003 Holt Paperbacks. Read the IDA review in Nightscape Issue 70. (Must be a member and logged in to view this). "Light Pollution: Responses and Remedies" by Bob Mizon, 2001 Springer. Also visit the IDA Reports & Studies page if you are interested in more scientific literature. |
Das Ende Der Nacht (The End of Night) by Thomas Posch, Anja Freyhoff, Thomas UhlmannThis book looks at the global consequences of light pollution. It is the first German language book summarizing the problematic aspects of artificial outdoor lights and how their nearly exponential increase has shaped the last century. Includes current information in an understandable format. Read more in German >> |
