Tired of that light shining in your bedroom window? Wanna help insects and birds? Do you care about community health? Join us on Thursday, November 2 at 6:30 PM at the Burroughs Community Center, 2470 Fairfield Avenue to learn more about Lights Out Connecticut.
There is a lot that you can do to help protect birds, insect pollinators, the environment, human health, and save money on your electric bill. Learn what Bridgeport can do as a community and on a municipal level to help reverse in this modern crisis of excess artificial light. There will be displays and literature and time for questions at the end of the presentation. The program is free and open to the general public.
What is the problem?
Excessive artificial light can impact wildlife. It disorients and kills many birds migrating through CT each spring and fall, affects numerous other animal species, wastes money and energy and contributes to climate change. It can also have serious effects on human health, contributes to our sense of disconnection from the natural world and natural cycles of day and night. Excess outdoor light can also increase crime in a counterintuitive way that will be addressed in the presentation.
What you can do
Join the growing community of CT residents and businesses turning off their unnecessary outdoor and indoor lighting to reduce the risk associated with light pollution. Ask our municipality to join in the movement. Our local issues will be discussed.
About our speakers
The program presenters are the co-chairs of Lights Out CT. Craig Repasz is president of Friends of Stewart B McKinney National Wildlife Refuge and was the president of the New Haven Bird Club and conservation chair of the CT Ornithological Association. Meredith Barges is a former policy researcher at the Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative. She is the author of Building Safer Cities for Birds: How Cities Are Leading the Way on Bird-Friendly Building Policy. Meredith will join us via Zoom.
Two options
The meeting will be held in person and via Zoom. Space is limited for the in person event. RSVP to the in person event or the Zoom meeting. Thank you.