Re: [APML] Dark Sky article -- Text URL

["Ron Sedgley" <rsedgley@bellsouth.net>]

Here's the text from that article..
Ron Sedgley

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Subject: [APML] Dark Sky article


> Hi
> The current issue of Science News has an interesting article on light
> pollution.
> April 20, 2002 page 248, Deprived of Darkness, the Unnatural Ecology of
> Artificial Light at Night by Ben Harder.
> Although not credited, the issue's cover photo entitled "Blinded By The
> Night" is a shot of Seattle :( my closest city, which has become infamous
> for our former forward thinking democratic mayor Paul Schell's "Millennium
> Lighting Project" which lit buildings, parks, and bridges with the worst
> sort of upward pointing spot lights and included a multi-million watt beam
> directed skyward from our George Jetson Space Needle. Fortunately the
power
> shortage has limited the hours of operation of the beam which can be seen
> for a 50 miles.
> Anyway, the article is an eye-opener, so to speak, and may provide some
ammo
> for the dark sky movement.
> Dale
>
>
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