[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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