The Essence of . . .The Dark Sky Institute

THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A DARK SKY REVOLUTION!

DARK HAPPENS! But only when you make it happen!

The Dark Sky Institute (DSI) is resolved to restore a dark sky over America WITHOUT turning off lights or resorting to DO-IT-OR-ELSE! lighting laws.

LIGHTING laws and ordinances FORCE people to act, generating controversy and confrontation. See VOLUNTARY -vs- LAWS.

SO, how do we start? With LIGHTSCAPES. What’s a LIGHTSCAPE?

EVERY community in America already has a lightscape, though most are NOT very star-friendly. Think Las Vegas--the light pollution capital of the cosmos--the biggest, brightest, baddest lightscape in the world! AND...

We won’t change it! Besides, the only stars in LV are onstage at the casinos.

But across America are thousands of communities under skies cloaked by inefficient, excessively bright, wasteful light shining up in the night sky not down on people and property, providing safety and security for all of us.

And every town in America (yours, too) has some good lights--SMART LIGHTS--that shine down on the targets of safety and security, not up into the night sky.

Read more about your community’s future LIGHTSCAPE and starry sky.