Feb 2024: A Space for Celebration

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Host Bill McGeeney is joined by freelance writer, Lauren Collee, astronomer, Tim Brothers, and film maker, Tara Roberts Zabriski.
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Bill's Picks:

• It’s autumn everywhere except under this streetlight, Be Smart.
• The Small Town That Turned Christmas Lights Into an Economic Miracle, Ruth Simon and Dave Cole, The Wall Street Journal.
• City of Davis looking for better ideas to light up streets, James Yalor, CBS News Sacramento.
• Streetlight Color Temperatures our Community Cares About, City of Boulder.
• Power outage and environmental justice in Winter Storm Uri: an analytical workflow based on nighttime light remote sensing, International Journal of Digital Earth.
• An inventory of human light exposure behaviour, Scientific Reports.
• In rural California, bright Santa Tracker spotlight divides a community, Clare Fonstein, San Francisco Chronicle.
• Maine’s Penobscot Watershed Is Too Important to Allow Mining, Linda Coutant, National Parks Conservation Association.
• Influence of COVID-19 on night-time lights in Czechia, Journal of Maps.

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Chapters

1. Feb 2024: A Space for Celebration (00:00:00)

2. Light Pollution's Impact on Ecology (00:14:56)

3. Selective Lighting Impact on Insects and Activities (00:25:53)

4. Christmas Lighting Impact and Regulation (00:30:11)

5. Beam Issues and Community Debate on Lighting Ordinances (00:37:38)

6. Lighting and Safety in Communities (01:02:41)

7. Light Pollution Legislation in Massachusetts (01:13:46)

8. Benefits of New Street Lighting (01:26:47)