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Find media and news about the dark sky movement, the work of the Kickapoo Valley Dark Sky Initiative and what is happening in the Kickapoo Valley and beyond to combat light pollution.
Light pollution is growing but so are our tools to reverse it.
Light pollution is growing but so are our tools to reverse it.
Audio/Visual
Dark Sky International | Losing the Dark - Losing the Dark is a short planetarium show and video on light pollution, available as a free download in 23 languages from Dark Sky International. Video can be viewed in Presentation area below.
Wisconsin Life | Kickapoo Valley Reserve fights light pollution - This highlights the effort to create an International Dark Sky Park to protect our night skies. WPR - Wisconsin Today
WDRT 91.9 - Kickapoo Night Life by Susan Cushing and Carol Wesley - Kickapoo Night Life is a news magazine exploring our world after sunset, the stars and planets above, and the importance of keeping our night sky dark.
Print Media
Seeing Stars Blog - Seeing Stars, a blog by Susan Cushing, a Master Naturalist, astro-educator, amateur astronomer, and ‘Night Naturalist’ explores our night sky and what our ‘neighbors’ -the animals, birds, insects and plants- are doing between dusk and dawn. Susan's blog also explores how our artificial light affects the world around us and simple, safe ways we can protect and enjoy our dark skies.
Coulee Region Women “Seeing Darkness” Feb/March 2025 page 36 "The Kickapoo Valley Dark Sky Initiative is educating the public on light pollution."
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | A second dark sky park was within reach. Then light pollution increased. - "In April 2021, astronomy educator John Heasley set out to see just how dark the skies were in southwestern Wisconsin's Vernon County."
Presentations
- Losing The Dark Sky Video - International Dark-Sky Association
“The thought of light traveling billions of years from distant galaxies only to be washed out in the last billionth of a second by the glow from the nearest strip mall depresses me to no end.”
“The thought of light traveling billions of years from distant galaxies only to be washed out in the last billionth of a second by the glow from the nearest strip mall depresses me to no end.”
Sonke Johnsen, Vision Scientist, excerpt from An Immense World by Ed Yong (2022)
Sonke Johnsen, Vision Scientist, excerpt from An Immense World by Ed Yong (2022)
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