[Chaos-l] Chapel Hill town hall meeting tonight re: lights

[Mark South]

also we should mention that if we are all trying to be "Green" and  
"earth friendly" as most UNC students want to be, more lights is  
making a bigger carbon footprint and wasting energy.
mark

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On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Mickey Jo Sorrell wrote:

> Thanks for this alert.
> Here's the article from today's Daily Tar Heel.
>
> http://media.www.dailytarheel.com/media/storage/paper885/news/2008/04/08/City/Town-Lighting.Up.For.Debate-3309440.shtml
>
> I'm inclined to do my part for dark skies and skip our CHAOS meeting
> tonight. The usual idea, of course, is that more light is better  
> light.
> Last year on a campus lighting tour the students objected loudly
> whenever we traveled from an over lit area to an area with lower
> lighting levels.
>
> On-campus lighting is beginning to make the change toward putting
> correct wattage in the right places. I would hope that the town  
> consider
> the same course.
>
> And if you want more info about light pollution, consider attending  
> "Our
> Vanishing Night" on April 20.  CHAOS and the Chapel Hill Town Council
> are listed as co-sponsors.
> http://moreheadplanetarium.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page&filename=vanish.html
>
> Mickey
>
>
>
> Vaughn Jett wrote:
>> I'm not sure if my previous message went through or
>> not.
>>
>> There's a meeting tonight at 7 (terrible timing, I
>> know) regarding an idea to put up yet more lights in
>> Chapel Hill near campus.
>>
>> I want to go and argue that lights don't make us any
>> safer from crime overall.  Does anybody else want to
>> go?  It will probably go on after the chaos meeting is
>> over.
>>
>> Does anybody have any facts to arm me with?
>>
>> Was the Eve Carson site lit or not?  I suspect that it
>> was, but I want to be sure before I make assertions
>> before a crowd of people.
>>
>> My main point will be that lights only make us less
>> afraid rather than safer.  And in some cases (like
>> when the assailant has a gun) lights can actually make
>> the situation more dangerous.
>>
>>
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