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Be sure
to visit Featured Links and Meetings and Events pages.
National Dark-Sky Week Set for April
1-8, 2003
Endorsed by IDA and AAS
08 JAN 2003
George & Edythe
Taylor Student Awards
deadline
for nominations February 7, 2002
18 DEC 2002
IDA Fall
Meeting in Boston - 25-26 OCT 2002
Press Release Oct. 23
Press invited
(Press
Release Oct. 11)
Program and
Logistics
23 OCT 2002
Four (4)
New IDA Section In April
Visit the Sections page
A NEW PowerPoint
CD from this years annual meeting
is now available.
23 APR 2002
Four (4)
New IDA Section In March
Visit the Sections page
29 MAR 2002
Calgary
Sheds New Light On Environmental Stewardship:
Launch
of EnviroSmart Streetlights Retrofit Project
See what the City
of Calgary doing here.
28 MAR 2002
Reminder -
Hotel reservation block will end on 11 Feb 2002
See Annual Meeting Page for updates.
16 JAN 2002
2001 Membership Contest winner announced!
21 DEC 2001
Coalition
Urges NY Governor to Sign Light Pollution Bill
20 DEC 2001
Membership on December 20, 2001 exceeds
8600
20 DEC 2001
During the week
of November 12th to 18th 2001
this site received
15,143 visitors!
20 NOV 2001
Membership on November 16, 2001 reaches 8403
19 NOV 2001
During the week of October 22-27 IDA
Membership exceeded 8,000
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Comment from Bob Gent
Congratulations to ALL!
We have broken the 8,000 membership mark, and we continue
to grow at a rapid
pace. This is excellent news that shows our future is going to look
even better.
Cheers,
Bob Gent
Chair, IDA's Section Working Group
European Liaison Officer
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Oct. 27, 2001
IDA Board Member Reg Wilson to
speak at
CPTED-2001 Conference 24-27 Sep.
2001, in Brisbane, Australia
SkyWise: September 2001
- Glare
Sep 5, 2001
ASHRAE/IESNA
Standard 90.1-1999 — In More Detail
Satellite
Broadcast October 30, 2001
12:00
- 4:15 p.m. (Eastern)
Sep 1, 2001
Our membership status is now over 7590
(as of August
31, 2001)
-also see Membership
Thanks
to all the hard work by all of our members and staff!
Aug 31, 2001
NY Moves To Regulate Illumination - Hearing is set
for 2:30 p.m. 28 Aug
Aug 28, 2001
Astronomy Picture of
the Day - 2001 August 27
Aug 28, 2001
San Diego Astronomy
Association works to preserve
the night sky
over San Diego
Aug 27, 2001
The New Buildings Institute, Inc.
posts information on
The Public Interest Energy Research
(PIER) Programs
Outdoor Lighting Baseline
Assessment Project
Aug 24, 2001
Sierra Magazine September/October
2001
Side Bar - The urban jungle is
murder on migrating birds - Chicago's "Dim the Lights" campaign.
THE
SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN: NEWS FOR MEMBERS -
May/June2001
- Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
Notes - While most people are aware
of the problems of air, water, and noise pollution,
many are in the dark about light.
Aug 24, 2001
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
WORLD MAGAZINE
The August issue contains an
article on Light Pollution.
ABC TV - Powers
of Darkness Not All Evil
Moved Aug 24, 2001
A flurry of visitors were
directed to this site by the news of
"The first world atlas of the
artificial night sky brightness" .
On August 15
visits to the IDA Web Site reached 2151
In the ten day
period Aug. 8-18 we received 10,351 visitors.
This is the largest "known" number
of visits since the week of November 22, 1998, when Parade magazine published
"Our Wasted Light," by noted astronomer and Parade Magazine Science
Editor David H. Levy.
This publication reaches nearly
85 million readers. Reprints of "Our Wasted Light" are available from
IDA.
Aug 20, 2001
Wall light switch from Sentry - it just makes sense and
saves energy.
from Energy Users
News Magazine
Aug 18, 2001
The Journal of Neuroscience, August 15, 2001, 21(16):6405-6412
Study Suggest that a novel photopigment in the human eye
effects circadian rhythm.
Aug 16, 2001
The first world
atlas of the artificial night sky brightness
prompts a flurry
of news coverage around the world.
The first world
atlas of the artificial night sky brightness
NPR
talkes with IDA about Light Pollution (Aug 8, 2001) 4th. item down (Requires REAL AUDIO)
Many of the follow links will
expire without notice.
MSNBC's "The
Milky Way is Disappearing" (link expired)
The Sydney Morning Herald - We
can't see because of all that light (Aug 9, 2001)
Atlas shows night sky pollution - BBC (Aug 15, 2001)
YahooNews - Study: Pollution Hiding
Milky Way (link expired)
Study: Most people losing sight of stars - CNN (Aug 15, 2001)
Disappearing Night: Milky Way Invisible from Most of Europe,
U.S. - SPACE.com (Aug 15, 2001)
Most
People Never See A Truly Dark Night Sky: Study - UniSci (Aug 14, 2001)
Street lights outshine real sky at night - The Guardian (UK).
(Aug 14, 2001)
Our Lights Make Stars an 'Endangered
Species' - Los Angeles Times (Aug 13, 2001) (link expired)
Lost in a dark with excessive bright - The Times (UK) (Aug
10, 2001)
SpaceRef.com (Aug 15 2001)
-- New Royal Astronomical
Society press release
Geological Society - News - The future's bright and slightly
orange (Aug 14, 2001)
NASA WATCH
(Not a NASA Site) The first world atlas ... (Aug 6, 2001) (link expired)
Times-News BURLINGTON,
N.C. (Aug 13, 2001) (link expired)
RAS Press Notice (Aug 13,2001)
Study details
growing problem of light pollution, SpaceFlightNow.com (Aug 18, 2001)
Aug 15, 2001 - revised Aug 27
Our membership
status is now over 7496 (as of August 15, 2001)
-also see Membership
Thanks to all the hard
work by all of our members and staff!
Aug 15, 2001
The June IDA
Newsletter in on line - see Newletters
2001 Membership Contest announced.
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