Turn Out The Lights & Other Solutions to Light Pollution with Steve Mariconda

Light pollution is the human-made alteration of outdoor light levels from those occurring naturally. Light pollution disrupts wildlife, impacts human well-being, wastes money and energy, contributes to climate change, and blocks our view of the universe.

Steve Mariconda, an avid astronomer and public health care professional, had a profound experience the first time he saw the Milky Way in a pristine sky. Away from street lights, floodlights on commercial properties, car headlights and other human-made interference that combine to make the nighttime environment unnaturally bright he had a keen sense of something bigger.

Mariconda advocates that light pollution is relatively easy to fix. Using fewer and more targeted light sources and replacing white light bulbs with yellow ones are just a few of the recommendations he will make in this program.

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