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	Name:	W Hall -
	Subject:	light pollution
	Date:	11/30/2009 4:45:39 PM

I hope this posting is not out of line. I think the subject is so important to LM and everywhere else also.

Outdoor Lighting and Your Health

Starry Night Lights has advocated for night sky friendly outdoor lighting for many years now. Night sky friendly lights are light fixtures which send all the light that they produce down onto the ground beneath them, where it’s needed, not wastefully up into the night sky in the form of light pollution. We have argued about how light pollution reduces our view of the night sky. We have explained how expensive it is to wastefully shine light when and where it is not needed. We have even raised the issue of how light pollution is a threat to nocturnal creatures. Well, researchers are continuing to study how light at night can affect humans. Study after study is uncovering more clues about how light at night impacts our health. The implications warrant our action.

American Medical Association Against Light Pollution

RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association advocate that all future outdoor lighting be of energy efficient designs to reduce waste of energy and production of greenhouse gasses that
result from this wasted energy use (New HOD Policy); and be it further

RESOLVED, That our AMA support light pollution reduction efforts and glare reduction efforts at both the national and state levels

“We have lost the experience of looking at the dark skies because most people live in cities and towns, which are badly affected by light pollution. Some might be able to find the North Star or the Plough (Big Dipper) but most would be unable to identify any constellations at all. Looking at an unspoilt night sky speaks to something very primitive in us. Astronomy was one of the first instances when human beings encountered something outside their experience and tried to explain it” – Steve Owens, the UK co-ordinator for Unesco’s International Year of Astronomy
Regards,

Anthony Arrigo
President - Starry Night Lights
www.StarryNightLights.com
(877) 604-7377

www.StarryNightLights.com

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