how to reduce light pollution?

Question

ways for reducing light pollution & i require point wise

Answer 1

You can find some of the best suggestions at the International Dark-Sky Association's website. http://www.darksky.org

You can start with this article:

http://www.darksky.org/resources/information-sheets/is134.html

Answer 2

The problem with reducing light pollution is that most people are afraid of the dark, and many are actually afraid of the night sky. so a large segment of the population are more comfortable psychologically with lots of glare that obscures the stars.

The key words of course, are "security" and "safety," but the underlying fear--that people don't want to admit--is plain old fear of the night.

A side effect is that people who like to see the stars are considered strange, and looked upon with suspicion by red-blooded Americans.

All of these are very emotional issues, and are hard to change at the community level. It appears state and federal laws will be required to make people permit reduced light pollution. So lobby your state senator, provide model laws, such as the city code from Tucson AZ, and help them get the idea rolling.

Fortunately, energy costs are rising rapidly, and many municipal and regional governments will soon be forced to reduce street lighting and ask that their constituents reduce parking lot lighting and building illumination. It will be a long time before it trickles down to the point that the law forbids your clueless neighbor installing a sodium vapor light at the edge of your back yard, but it will eventually happen.

In the meantime, lobby for a state law, move out into the country, speak on the topic at church and civic groups. And expect to be called a commie hippy godless liberal deadbeat unpatriotic slob.

No way around that until we can reconstruct the education system in this country.

P.S. as others mentioned, see the International Dark Sky Organization. Full of wonderful ideas.

Answer 3

As Cincinnatus said, go to darksky.org. They list many ways to reduce light pollution that does NOT reduce public safety. Part of the problem is that a lot of our light gets wasted by pointing up, not down where it is really needed. We can actually create better lighting conditions and save money (by not wasting energy) and reduce light pollution all at once!

Answer 4

This is a trick question, as people want to feel safe at night. The only real way to reduce it is to cut light usage, and you won't get people wanting to do that

Answer 5

wait until the sun goes down

Answer 6

switch of the lights

Answer 7

put on sun glasses

Answer 8

close your eyes