Help protect your health and your community's by stopping light pollution and light trespass today

What are you going to say to your children and grandchildren when they ask you why didn't you help stop light pollution and light trespass? Why they couldn't see the stars and chase the lighting bugs like you?

Light pollution is a serious and deadly form of pollution. Too few people are aware of it nor understand the breadth of its adverse impacts. It has been linked to cancers, breast and prostate, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, heart disorders, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders and more. And now links are being found to Alzheimer's.

The firefly populations are being decimated and in fear of going extinct. Migrating birds are dying every Spring and Fall in the hundreds of millions. Baby hatching turtles are being killed. Artificial light at night is wiping out the nocturnal pollinators. It is time to rethink those landscape and architectural lights. Turn them off at 10 PM to protect our natural nocturnal habitats and environment.

The stars are literally being erased over our heads. Some scientists predict that in some places NO stars will be visible in 20 years unless action is taken now. The Washington D.C. metropolitan region which includes Northern Virginia is one of those places.

Help by signing this petition. Be part of the solution to stop light pollution not part of the problem.

Petition to strengthen outdoor lighting ordinances and legislation.

Only you can protect the natural night and our shared spaces.

Act now! Sign this petition to let your local officials know you want to be protected against light pollution and light trespass and you want every resident in your community protected. Even the non human ones.
https://chng.it/NqWxJ88MN7

The Issue

We support enacting strong legislation to eliminate light trespass, to protect human health, to protect the environment, to protect nocturnal creatures, to eliminate the costs of wasted energy from excessive outdoor lighting and to protect dark skies by adopting the 5 Principles of Responsible Outdoor Lighting as developed by DarkSky International and the Illuminating Engineering Society.

1. Useful - All light should have a clear purpose

2. Targeted - Light should be directed only to where it's needed.

3. Low level - Illumination should be no higher than necessary.

4. Controlled - Light should be used only when it is useful.

5. Warm-colored - Use warmer-color lights where possible

Protect the natural night. Bring back the beauty and health of our nights.