(Selene stands for Sensible and Efficient Lighting to Enhance the Nighttime Environment).
It costs us money and energy to have a trashy nighttime environment and to wipe out our dark skies.
Susan Harder of East Hampton, a spokeswoman for Sensible and Efficient Lighting to Enhance the Nighttime Environment, said that LIPA was setting an example for other utilities in "an industry that is not traditionally known for its support of dark skies".
Gary Citro, a music teacher from Hicksville and a member of Selene, the acronym for a group called Sensible and Efficient Lighting to Enhance the Nighttime Environment, said light pollution was growing worse in Nassau County.
Still, the custodians find it disconcerting to have their nighttime environment so — crowded; to see the posters and signs covering the replica of the Liberty Bell; to know that the place isn't being properly cleaned.
Ms. Harder and Gary Citro of Hicksville, a teacher and a member of Selene, which stands for Sensible and Efficient Lighting to Enhance the Nighttime Environment, said that Long Island was awash in misdirected, glaring outdoor lighting that all but obliterated the stars.
Expecting that the opsin genes of a nocturnal animal that does not need color vision to operate in a nighttime environment would have mutated or degraded, the researchers discovered the opposite: the opsin genes appeared to be fully functional.
Thoughts of a new way to improve the nighttime environment began in summer 2011 when the new Cedar Fair CEO, Matt Ouimet was in the park one night and thought they should add more lights and excitement.
Small scale urban lighting began with gas lamps, but the nighttime environment drastically changed with the widespread deployment of electric lighting in the last century.
