How Seeing the Stars Will Save You Money and possible save your
life and certainly make your life more enjoyable
Maryland General Assembly Roadway
Lighting Bill HB816 new (very good legislation). The honorable Alfred Carr
email who introduced this house bill. State Senator Jenny Forehand has
introduced a companion bill in the Maryland Senate: SB891 (some more
information on this bill, too).
Maryland Outdoor Lighting Task Force Report from 2001: Maryland
Outdoor Lighting Task force report.
Seeing the Light of Day
from the Washingtonpost.com Tuesday, October 30, 2007.
Lights
at Night Are Linked to Breast Cancer: Study Bolsters Theory About
Interference With Production of Key Hormone, By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 20, 2008;
Page A04
Artificial
lighting in the industrialized world: circadian disruption and breast
cancer Cancer Causes Control (2006) 17:501–507 Richard G.
Stevens
LIGHT
AT NIGHT CO-DISTRIBUTES WITH INCIDENT BREAST BUT NOT LUNG CANCER IN THE
FEMALE POPULATION OF ISRAEL in Chronobiology International, 25(1):
65–81, (2008) by Itai Kloog, Abraham Haim, Richard G. Stevens, Micha
Barchana, and Boris A. Port
University
of Hawaii Light Pollution Thief of our Night Sky
City
Swapping Out Light Bulbs for LEDs from CCN, Friday, October 19,
2007.
IDA, International DarkSky
Association
Wikipedia article on Melatonin
Wikipedia article on Melanopsin
Wikipedia article on Light Pollution
PowerPoint
presentation used in the planetarium on March 21, 2009.
Outdoor Lighting Standards Established Bill No. 4-07.pdf,
not yet passed as far as I can see.
Zoning Text Amendment in Montgomery County 07-01.pdf,
not yet passed as far as I can see.
"Testimony on Bill No. 4-07, Outdoor Lighting Standards-Established,
and Zoning Text Amendment No. 07-01, Concerning: Outdoor Lighting
Standards March 20, 2007 1:30PM by Dr. Harold Williams" a Microsoft
Word doc file.
Brightness
Outside, Darkened Moods Inside latest Washington Post Article one
of the many problems of Light Pollution on May1, 2008.
NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY LETTERS including Psychoneuroimmunology,
Neuropsychopharmacology, Reproductive Medicine, Chronobiology and Human
Ethology. ISSN 0172–780X LIGHT, ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS AND CANCER Facts and
Research Perspectives http://www.nel.edu/Press/Light-Endocrine-Cancer.htm
Too
much light at night could raise cancer risk
Montgomery
College's
Planetarium home page
Web page by Dr. Harold Alden Williams.
Last changed 11:02PM March 21, 2009.