The Huron Street renovation project will include “Dark Skies compliant” light fixtures — see peoplefriendlystreets.org: Design Concepts June 1, 2018, p. 63. The cobra lights will have a second, smaller cobra on the sidewalk side for pedestrians. Both are meant to be full cutoff.
Sally Oey will speak at the University Lowbrow Astronomers monthly meeting on the topic of light pollution this Friday, May 18, 7:30 PM in G115 Angell Hall, University of Michigan.
The Zoological Lighting Institute will host a session on Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) at the American Institute of Architecture’s (AIA) annual convention in New York in June. There will be several topics discussed to place the issue of biodiversity-loss mitigation to the center of architectural sustainability, including bird collisions. This is a great step forward in
The Kerrytown streetlight upgrades will adopt the version of the globes with the top halves blocked out. Specific globe models were already approved for this project, so the only options for modification were to look at different submodels from the manufacturer. We lucked out that one submodel is this more dark-sky-friendly version with internal “light
In Feb 2017, the Baltimore Ravens came out with an upgrade design to add static pillars of white light to give a “civic gesture” to the stadium. Lights Out Baltimore, a group that monitors bird collisions, reached out to address how light pollution is a threat to birds. After three meetings, with the assistance of
Welcome to our new website! Mary Stewart Adams and Sally Oey will be doing light pollution demos at the Detroit Observatory Open House for Statewide Astronomy Night 8:30 – 10:30 PM.
