[Darksky][OL-Forum] Digest Number 198 (fwd)

Jan Hollan
Thu, 17 May 2001 18:38:52 +0200 (CEST)


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There are 4 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

      1. Shoreland Lighting
           From: "Karolyn Beebe" <keedosAearthlink...>
      2. ABC World News Tonight Story on the Need for Dark Nights
           From: "Leo Smith" <leoAsmith...>
      3. Re: ABC World News Tonight Story on the Need for Dark Nights
           From: Margaret Holohan <missy_holohanAjuno...>
      4. ABC report script
           From: kgflemingAworldnet....net


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Message: 1
   Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:59:55 -0500
   From: "Karolyn Beebe" <keedosAearthlink...>
Subject: Shoreland Lighting

Here is a pdf version of the "Sensible Shoreland Lighting" booklet. I would be
pleased if the list files provided a link to it.
http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/uwexlakes/faq/lighting.pdf

Thanks

Karolyn Beebe




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Message: 2
   Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 23:25:35 -0700
   From: "Leo Smith" <leoAsmith...>
Subject: ABC World News Tonight Story on the Need for Dark Nights

Peter Jenings, ABC News did a spectacular in-depth news story as part of the ABC Evening News this evening.

The story focused on the fact that dark nights might be necessary for better human health. The story included an interview with a Photo Biologist on the Cancer risks caused by Light at Night due to suppression of Melatonin.

It was a really powerful delivery of the message to the mainstream public.

If you didn't see the story, you can still listen to it by going to
http://abcnews.go.com/Sections/WNT/

and click on the right where it says "Missed World News Tonight? Listen Now."

Peter Jennings will announce the headlines at the start, including the story on the need for dark nights.

The dark night story is the last story...it's really a great story...that can serve as a persuasive argument to support the full cutoff streetlights...

Leo


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Message: 3
   Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 21:31:35 -0400
   From: Margaret Holohan <missy_holohanAjuno...>
Subject: Re: ABC World News Tonight Story on the Need for Dark Nights

Leo, 
	I saw the piece having been alerted by two different people. It was
extremely well done. Wish we could get a tape of this peice. Short and
very effective. 
						Missy

On Wed, 16 May 2001 23:25:35 -0700 "Leo Smith" <leoAsmith...> writes:
> Peter Jenings, ABC News did a spectacular in-depth news story as part 
> of the ABC Evening News this evening.
 
> It was a really powerful delivery of the message to the mainstream 
> public.
> 
> The dark night story is the last story...it's really a great 
> story...that can serve as a persuasive argument to support the full 
> cutoff streetlights...
> 
> Leo



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Message: 4
   Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 04:51:11 +0000
   From: kgflemingAworldnet....net
Subject: ABC report script

Here is the script of the ABC report -- 

Enjoy
Kevin 

Promo at beginning of newscast -- 
(Peter Jennings) "All that light at night... did you 
know it was bad for your health?"

Final report --

(Jennings) "Finally from us this evening...in praise of 
the darkness...

"In several major cities you may have noticed recently 
many skyscrapers have been turning off their lights at 
night. The World Trade Center, the Empire State Bldg. in 
New York, the Sears Tower in Chicago are just three 
examples. It is not primarily to save money on energy, 
though it must surely help. It is to save the birds. 
Millions of migrating birds die every year when they are 
attracted to the light and fly into the building. Now 
this has made our Bill Blakemore think, maybe we really 
do need more darkness." 

(Blakemore) "Look at North America from a satellite at 
night and it glows with billions of wasted energy 
dollars. Nobody meant this to happen, and it's having a 
devastating effect on our health. It turns out we need 
the darkness to make our immune systems work. Scientist 
have now discovered that only when it's really dark can 
your bodies produce the hormone melatonin. Melatonin 
fights diseases, including breast and prostate cancer. 
(Interviewee)"It turns off the cancer cells from 
growing." (Blakemore) But even if there's even a little 
light around your bed at night, your melatonin 
production switches off. (Interviewee) "So there may be 
this natural way that mother nature has given us, that 
is, dark nights, to keep certain cancers under control." 
	

(Blakmore) "Light at night, even from just watching TV, 
turns on other hormones which should be active only in 
daytime. They get depleted, and you're more likely to 
get a cold. Nature needs darkness too. The immune 
systems of animals grow weak if there's artificial light 
at night. 

"It turns out this is one pollution that's easy to fix. 
Lights that spill so much glare up into the sky that it 
even wipes out the stars can be fitted with reflectors 
to focus the light. Which in turn means they require 
less energy. Or, you can simply, switch off the light.  
For example, by going dark at night, some offices and 
school buildings are each now saving as much as a 
million dollars a year. And another surprise... Police 
report that such darkness is often safer. That's partly 
because neighbors soon learn to alert police if they see 
any light ON in a building. There's even less graffiti, 
because it's usually lit walls that attract the spray 
can vandals, not dark ones. Around  Tucson, where law 
now requires that light only be focused down around what 
needs to be lit, people have even discovered the stars 
again, and how much we lost when we wiped out dark 
night, and it's natural promotion of safety and health."




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