The warmer toned LEDs indoors are better, not blue-white. The second piece of the short article you just sent was very useful to me. I just sent it over to the journalist with whom I spoke yesterday, who is doing an article about a proposed 375-unit development in what was a rural zone (and which the town is trying to turn into a residential zone to allow for the development, which will widen the tax base). This rural zone is part of a wildlife corridor and the development will surely take away the dark night skies that some of us cherish and that the wild creatures need. Thank you very much. I hope she publishes that bit because I'm the only one in town talking about the light pollution aspect of this development.
I live in a rural area surrounded by national forest land and over the past 15 years, light pollution has become a big issue. We do not have any housing projects YET to worry about, but big cannabis farms were an issue when they did not use blackout poly to cover their grow houses during regular dark hours. Legalization made that cottage industry unprofitable, but now people have bought up homes, cabins and even vacant land and turned to Airbnb to make money off real estate in the area, as cannabis profits went away. To protect their investments from possible burglaries, they put up street lights and keep porch lights on at night. It makes me very sad to look out across the river and the land at night and see lights dotting the mountain and then look up and see Musk's Starlink satellites competing with the actual stars, even though I admit I use Starlink for internet service. Now that Trump has sworn to release public land for housing development, we may see more big housing and mixed-use projects creeping into wildlife corridors.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/1.7165174
The warmer toned LEDs indoors are better, not blue-white. The second piece of the short article you just sent was very useful to me. I just sent it over to the journalist with whom I spoke yesterday, who is doing an article about a proposed 375-unit development in what was a rural zone (and which the town is trying to turn into a residential zone to allow for the development, which will widen the tax base). This rural zone is part of a wildlife corridor and the development will surely take away the dark night skies that some of us cherish and that the wild creatures need. Thank you very much. I hope she publishes that bit because I'm the only one in town talking about the light pollution aspect of this development.
I live in a rural area surrounded by national forest land and over the past 15 years, light pollution has become a big issue. We do not have any housing projects YET to worry about, but big cannabis farms were an issue when they did not use blackout poly to cover their grow houses during regular dark hours. Legalization made that cottage industry unprofitable, but now people have bought up homes, cabins and even vacant land and turned to Airbnb to make money off real estate in the area, as cannabis profits went away. To protect their investments from possible burglaries, they put up street lights and keep porch lights on at night. It makes me very sad to look out across the river and the land at night and see lights dotting the mountain and then look up and see Musk's Starlink satellites competing with the actual stars, even though I admit I use Starlink for internet service. Now that Trump has sworn to release public land for housing development, we may see more big housing and mixed-use projects creeping into wildlife corridors.