Image generated with AI ∙ 18 November 2023 at 2:52 pm Yes, we’re finally coming to the part I wanted to tell you about because most of it was new to me - not that it’s all good news. In this post we’ll talk about the impact of artificial light on humans. In the second, we’ll discuss the impact on the environment and what's being done about it. Night Walk Earlier this month, I went on an interesting night walk led by a lighting expert as part of Architecture Week. Our guide took us for a stroll around the city, pointing out examples of good and bad lighting and how short the history of electric light really was in the broad sweep of human history. At the start he told us a little about Aboriginal Astronomy. How Aboriginal people made use of the stars in their daily lives – not as Westerners might, to guide them from place to place, but rather as an Almanac which told them what season it was – whether it was time to gather emu eggs or to move to another place. F
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