Light Pollution News

A Podcast Shedding the Light Only Where Needed

Do We Need All Of That Light?

Protect Our Night

Annual Estimated Cost of Exterior Lighting

50B USD

US Department of Energy Estimated Percentage Resulting in Wasted Light

99%

Annual American Consumption of Outdoor Lighting.

308 tWH

Light Pollution in Numbers

Excess and Unnecessary Light Have Consequences.

875,000,000

Trees Needed to Offset CO2 Emissions from Outdoor Lighting in the US Per Year, via the International Dark Sky Association.

99%

Americans and Europeans who can’t see the Milky Way, per National Geographic.

1,000,000,000

Estimated bird deaths annually due to factors including building lights, per NPR

2x

Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans are 2x more likely to live in heavily light polluted environments according to 2020 Study.