Luminous Pollution Activity

Instructions

Luminous pollution is 95% responsible for the disappearance of stars in the sky. Click the different items in the drawing to see just how bad luminous pollution is for the entire planet. Then choose to light what is really necessary. You will see that we waste a lot of light and energy in our cities.

Note that some kinds of light create more problems than others. See how it would be possible to choose less polluting light sources in some cases and how some lights are completely useless and inefficient.

Click on:

Houses = Slight effect
Streetlamps = Medium effect
The bridge = Catastrophic and useless effect
The monument = Strong effect
Street lights = There is an efficient choice and an inefficient choice
The city = Very strong effect
The school = Somewhat strong effect (especially since a school is usually closed at night)

Then, if you wish, stroll through the city and draw up a list of monuments and buildings that are lit up for no reason

© 2006 An original idea and a realization of the ASTROLab of Mont-Mégantic National Park