Project title: Light pollution

Team: L@s iluminad@s

Calle Santa Maria   Torres   Spain   3 Student’s age: 12-13 years old

How does light pollution affect?

It mainly affects urban and industrial areas. According to the Institute of Science and Technology of the light pollution, 60% of the inhabitants of the European Union cannot see the Milky Way for light pollution.

Increased energy and economic spending, road insecurity, difficulty in air and sea traffic or damage to ecosystems nocturnal are just some of the effects caused by one of the types of pollution less known than those that exist.

The rise in light pollution around the world is causing serious problems for those living beings adapted to the darkness of night. Somem animals, such as some migratory birds, seals or moths, they use the light of the moon, the stars or even the Milky Way to orient themselves.

The City Councils, through Law 7/1985, Regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, play a fundamental role for the implementation of measures that ensure the control of the CL. It would be convenient for all urban projects to contemplate a study of the lighting installations, quantifying the environmental impact that may occur. Seek energy efficiency levels without sacrificing people’s comfort and safety conditions. Promote, from municipal institutions, citizen awareness campaigns that have a didactic and sensitizing nature, using a pedagogical attitude and showing the need to use energy rationally. Sustainable support and promotion of the use of renewable energies, currently underdeveloped in our country and currently only 8% used for the production of electricity in Spain.
We have to achieve the restoration of the natural conditions of the nocturnal environment and preserve the darkness of the night in accordance with the universal declaration of the rights of future generations (UNESCO): “The people of future generations have the right to an Earth unscathed and uncontaminated, including the right to a pure sky”

The luminaires must be horizontal and direct their light downwards, avoiding any ray of light that escapes towards the horizontal, and only illuminating the surfaces that They are necessary. The lights should be directed downward and illuminate only the surfaces that are necessary.

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