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• Susan Harder, guest on WBAI "Create Your Healthy Home" radio show
  January 2, 2007. The guest was Susan Harder of the DarkSky organization. The topic was light pollution. She was featured in an article in the New York Times on December 17, 2006 called "Tilting At Lampposts". Ms. Harder has gotten both Montauk and East Hampton to change the light fixtures on their lamposts to prevent lighting up the sky, save money and cut down on glare.
   
• Today Show segment on light-cancer connection
  (Requires Internet Explorer) Segment from the Jan 11th Today Show--Prevention Magazine''s Rosemary Ellis talks with the Today Show''s Alexix Glick about new research showing that exposure to nighttime lighting could increase the risk for cancer.
   
• Light-Cancer Connection
  A Prevention Magazine article that summarizes various studies that point strongly to the connection between exposure to light at night and increased risks of breast and many other cancers. (Alternately, view this PDF version of the article.)
   
• Night Lights - From American Scientist Online
  Researchers investigate the effects of nighttime lighting on aquatic environments.
   
• Let There Be Light -- Bring Back the Stars
  An article from The Hamptons View by Nancy Hyden Woodward about dark skies and what is being done in eastern Long Island to protect dark skies. Also archived here in PDF format.
   
• Preservation Magazine - Beyond the Glare and the Blare
  "Once, people could bathe in starlight and listen to snow fall. Now the quest to renew darkness and silence is growing." Cover story of the current issue of Preservation Magazine, by Anne Matthews. (Full story not available online, click here for a PDF version.)
   
• Dr. Pauley pre-releases light pollution paper
  Dr. Pauley has been kind enough to share a pre-publication version of his paper Lighting for the Human Circadian Clock: Recent Indications that Lighting Has Become a Public Health Issue.
   
• Light Pollution Taking Toll on Wildlife
  An article from National Geographic about the effects of light pollution on wildlife.
   
• LIPA to install full cutoff lights rather than floodlights
  A change in the LIPA tariff will eliminate Floodlighting on Long Island under LIPA's NightLight program.
   
• Good News For L.I. Night Sky Watchers
  The Suffolk Life News reports on the changes in LIPA's NighLight program in which LIPA will install fully-shielded fixtures instead of the unshielded floodlights they used to install.
   
• Giving Back The Night
  As of Aug. 21, 2003, all outdoor lighting must conform to Hailey, Idaho's new outdoor lighting ordinance. It's one of the best small town ordinances in the country. Story from the Idaho Mountain Express.