WELCOME TO THE 'NEED-LESS' LIGHT POLLUTION ANIMATIONS
The 'Need-Less' animation player now shows 6 different clips from random and is freely available to place in your web page. Please show it to help raise awareness of the need to reduce light pollution and save energy.
simply copy and paste this line of HTML code in between the <body> </body> tags of your webpage.
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MY LIGHT? Appeals to those who may be using excessive and poorly directed exterior lighting to consider their actions. The alarming scale of waste in this scene may appear exaggerated but it is actually commonplace throughout the world. |
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IT'S COSTING THE EARTH Highlights the often overlooked but rather serious economic and environmental consequences of light pollution. A Simple and direct message communicates how the visible 'sky glow' we see is evidence of this careless waste. |
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DIM BRIGHT, BRIGHT DIM? Do we all understand why we use exterior lighting and how to direct it effectively? A smart person is shown to only light their own property. The other way creates waste and could even conceal an intruder with glare! |
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DOWN TO EARTH It looks impossible here, but 'light pollution can be reversed' if we all switched to efficient lighting that only lights the ground. 'DOWN TO EARTH' lighting saves money, reduces glare and helps to restore the beauty of our night sky. |
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THE SKY'S THE LIMIT ! If we reduce light pollution, then we may all experience the infinite wonders of the universe. This is only possible, however, if we stop outside light from shining above the horizon. The sky literally has to be the limit, to stop light pollution |
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NEW - BLIND ACCEPTANCE?
Why does society seem to overlook the serious environmental and economic consequences of wasteful lighting? Increasingly, we tolerate the symptoms but need to combat the problem. Subconsciously, do we 'blindly accept' the issue? |
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YOUR FEEDBACK
Please use the form below to submit any comments, suggestions or questions to the Need-Less campaign.
All feedback (good or bad) is valuable and could help to develop more effective design solutions and raise further awareness of the need to reduce light pollution & save energy.
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Superb animations!
My particular favourite is "Dim bright, bright dim?" - it makes me chuckle every time!
Very nice banners. My favorite - although it's hard to pick just one - is "It's Costing the Earth". Keep up the good fight!
Nice work.
All five banners are excellent, but the “its costing the earth” one does it for me the most.
Excellent, clear and very much to the point!
THANK YOU!
Terrific website!! And you're absolutely right. "It's Costing the Earth" and we Humans more than we can imagine. Too bad our leaders just don't get it.
GREAT animations... MANY THANKS!!!!
As someone who is partially sighted and a life member of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB_UK) my personal preference is for BLIND ACCEPTANCE? If we collectively remain complacent many kids will never again see the Milky Way for real. They will only have GOOGLE SKY - clever though that is?
BLIND ACCEPTANCE is IT for me. I prefer to see the real stars.
Please keep up the great work in the UK. We're trying to preserve our night skies/reduce light pollution here in Pennsylvania/USA.
Whatever happened to candles? Is there pollution from them, too? Your banners are pure-ly brilliant!
can the animations go on my facebook?
You are welcome to try, however, I'm not sure it will work properly in Facebook. Please place a hyperlink to need-less website if the animation fails to link. Thanks for sharing the animations.
Good website but I actually like the light pollution and skyglow. I live near NYC and driving through the city at night looks very cool because of the high amount of skyglow.
These are fantastic, concise and enlightening! May we use these on our astronomy association web page?...and a link to your site? May we include these in light pollution power points?
Love the message behind "the sky is the limit".
Keep up the great work!!
Looking at these, it fed an idea of another:
We have no right
to light the sky
Let the stars do it for us!
Thanks to everyone for feedback. Please feel free to use any of the graphics from this website to promote the anti-light pollution message.
On the IDA website, all i get is a window asking to what program to use to open the .swf file or where to save it, oddly enough, it works when I come to your webpage....
Hi Ric, do you mean the animation is not playing in the IDA homepage? I have checked the site and it looks ok on my pc. What browser are you using? does it support frames? It works fine for me in Firefox and IE7. Does Seem strange that you can see it on Need-Less site but not IDA. I will look into it, thanks for reporting. Is anyone else getting this problem?
There are way too many stars in the universe. We need to totally combine then to make bigger ones.
Love the "Blind Acceptance" addition, keep up the good work!
I like the Dim-Bright Ad... I'd like to see some stars in the sky in order to better make the point that the light washes them out...
These animations are fantastic, and the color scheme is perfect for our astronomy club's site. I feel that the link should take a user to your home page where important information can be found, rather than this one, about the animations. Thanks!
It is "small" but POWERFUL things such as these banners, which seem to have the greatest effect in bringing the Light Pollution problem "to light"...THANK YOU!!!
THANK-YOU The pictures tell 1000 words!
Favorites: My Light and Blind Acceptance.
How abt something to address the new "Glare Bomb" CFL's being overused to overlight yards- due to cheap cost.
Wonderful... an eye opener for all
I think your work is brilliant and everyone should do their 'bit' to reduce light pollution!
A fantastic site, and brilliant effort. A great piece of work.
Great website. I'm using it in a presentation to make our housing subdivision Dark Sky compliant.
Member IDA
Monmouth, Oregon USA
Very nice banners, many thanks :)
Linked in my blog:
http://rgblighting.blogspot.com
Thanks for sharing the animations and spreading the anti light pollution message!
Good work, webmaster! Nice site!
