News - Solar-Active

Light: A session exploring a spectrum of views on various lighting issues

David Garlovsky speaking at the Friends of the Earth event:
Friday 24 February 2017, 1.30 – 5pm, London, SW9 0HP

Community input to street lighting decisions – There has been a growing trend for urban and rural areas to change roadway security lighting knowing that the lights being installed are affecting the urban tree canopy that provides a home for an astonishing number of small insects, birds, animals, lichens, ferns and fungi; also affecting human and wildlife circadian rhythms, road safety and view of our night sky. How can local communities be more involved in deciding how streetscapes including trees and lighting are planned, managed and maintained?”

Making Changes in Your Decision Making

A brief report of the 2 hour session held at Sheffield Central Library on 15th March 2017.

Security Lighting presentation

David Garlovsky presented a poster on the effects of security lighting, e.g. new white LED security lights being installed across UK, that are detrimental to human and wildlife circadian rhythms, road safety as well as the view of our night sky at the Action and Woods Action days conference in October 2016.

RISE Award 2016

Design support by James Wigglesworth for Solar-Active received a RISE AWARD 2016 (Research-Innovation-Sustainablility-Enterprise) for the poster submitted in the Education and Training category: Up-skilling the UK workforce in Renewable Energy Technologies sponsored by Knauf Insulation. See the poster, key points and certificate.
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Solar Car Races

Let There be Darkness

David Garlovsky has delivered his presentation 'LET THERE BE DARKNESS': Blue-rich LED street lighting - effect on circadian rhythms, well-being, road safety and view of night sky at the International SEEDS Conference 2017: Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society Healthy Environments, Buildings and Spaces: Current position and future models Leeds Beckett University, UK – 13th and 14th September 2017.

The paper can be found within The SEEDS Conference Proceedings 2017 published in E-Book form on 4th December with an ISBN number 978-0-9955690-2-7. The paper can be found on page 209 in the E-Book using this link.

Please sign a petition that has been created: "Halt Blue-Rich White Light Pollution", asking the government to reinstate the All Parliamentary Lighting Group and to urgently create a National Light Policy which properly addresses the harmful effects of modern lighting technology on humans, wildlife, road safety and sky glow.