• Light Pollution Educator: Priscilla Ivester

Earth Day

• Earth Day Fair 2010

• 2010 Piedmont Earth Day Fair
• Saturday, April 17, 2010
• on the campus of Wake Forest University
• 10 am - 5 pm

• Wake Forest University

• FAS has signed up for an exhibit booth at this year’s Earth Day Fair. The fair will be held on Saturday, April 18 on the campus of Wake Forest University. Anyone who is interested and available for helping out should contact Priscilla Ivester. Additional information on the fair is available at the web site below. http://www.peanc.org/earth-day-fair
• Please sign up to help - this will be great event.
  
• A Zero Waste Challenge Event
  

• “Zero waste is the next step in the American success story called recycling. Every day, more than 100 million citizens do the right thing...they recycle. Now it is time to set our sights higher and start planning for the end to wasting resources and to our reliance on landfills, incinerators and other waste facilities. Zero Waste is a Policy, a Path, a Direction, a Target; it’s a Process, a way of thinking, a Vision.” ~Gary Liss (1997)

     The Need-Less campaign has been set up to develop and provide new design ideas that raise awareness of light pollution. Unfortunately, ‘anti-light pollution’ campaigns have a very limited advertising budget which explains the lack of available design to promote the cause. The Need-Less campaign hopes to change this by working alongside other ‘anti-light pollution’ campaigns to offer entertaining and intriguing new concepts that appeal to the public for help. Anyone who would like to, may help the Need-Less campaign by spreading the word and by showing the Need-Less posters or animations in their |webpage as links to this site.

The Need-Less Campaign Website - Please visit and learn more!

• INTERNATIONAL DARK SKY ASSOCIATION (IDA)
  
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• Night in the Parks

• Dark Skies Awareness

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  • April 20th should be a moment of creativity.
  • Here are just a few activities that can be planned.
  • Appeal to the population to switch-off lights, at least that night.
  • Open-door day in astronomical observatories.
  • Star observation night organized by astronomy amateurs.
  • Identify landscapes and adopt stars.
  • And, in particular, organising acts where children will participate. The capacity to recover the right to observe stars is in their hands, it is the right of future generations.

• Check GLOBE at Night Project website for details
• 2009 16 - 28 March
• Family Activity Packet - Use this packet to plan a night out with your family!

• Families are encouraged to participate with their students in a global campaign to observe and record the magnitude of visible stars as a means of measuring light pollution in a given location. GLOBE at Night is an easy observation and reporting activity that takes approximately 15-30 minutes to complete with your student and/or other members of your family.