By Guest Author Jim Benya The initial LED streetlight installation went awry, but this story has a happy ending Davis, California, is a small city adjacent to a large university. The city has a well-educated… Read more
Citizens Push Back on LED Lighting
By Chris Kyba, IDA board member and light pollution researcher If you don’t like what you see, why don’t you fight it? If you know there’s something wrong why don’t you right it? –Trooper Citizens… Read more
Planning Our Nights
Florida Planning magazine (published by the American Planning Association Florida Chapter) features a great article about protecting the night from a conservation planning perspective. The piece was written by IDA Board Member and Florida chapter… Read more
Take Action to Prevent ‘Projecting Change’ in NYC
A planned outdoor light projection event this Saturday, August 1, will bathe New York City’s iconic Empire State Building in 800,000 lumens of light showing images of endangered species from around the world. The creators of the… Read more
IDA Pens Op-Ed on Phoenix’s New Lights
On Saturday, 13 June 2015, the Arizona Republic published the following guest editorial by IDA Executive Director Scott Feierabend on the subject of the pending conversion of street lights in Phoenix, Arizona, to white LEDs. … Read more
New IDA LED Lighting Practical Guide
The light-emitting diode (LED) is transforming the way we light our cities and towns offering a once-in-a-lifetime chance to radically improve how we use energy and our outdoor spaces at night. With this opportunity comes… Read more
IDA Responds to 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics
Tucson, AZ 7 October, 2014 –The Nobel Committee announced today that it has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for physics to three Japanese physicists for their invention of a revolutionary lighting technology. Isamu Akasaki and… Read more