Lighting in our neighborhoods impacts our health and that of flora and fauna. Do we think what we’re getting is appropriate?
Interesting article in The Atlantic. Worth starting a free trial. Kudos to Edward Bartholomew and Light Justice for being a reference. What it doesn’t speak to is the potential need for pedestrian / vehicular safety at certain times of evening, and in certain areas. Dimming lights down or turning them off later at night seems like what the utilities should be striving for. Human health, plant health, energy savings… all good reasons to reduce electric light at night. Plus, if like me you have a phone with a handy little light, you can use it to see to put your key in your car lock. Oops! Key in car lock! Nevermind. Seriously, us urban dwellers don’t really understand how much light we even need at night. With sky glow we can see most things well enough. This is tricky. It’s not about uplight. It’s about infrastructure and thinking critically of what we must have to see sufficiently, and where we need it.