Join EPL, NHE and Visual Resource Scientist Robert Sullivan to see how artificial light at night (ALAN) negatively affects wildlife around us and what to do to prevent and minimize these impacts.
This event is co sponsored by Natural Habitat Evanston.
Life on Earth evolved in conditions subject to only natural sources of light, and is adapted to these natural lighting sources and cycles. Many plants and animals depend on natural cycles of light and darkness for optimal health and even survival. Evidence is mounting that artificial light at night (ALAN) affects the behavior, health, and abundance of various living creatures, thereby disrupting natural ecological processes. This presentation discusses how unwanted ALAN—light pollution—harms wildlife, and also presents the potential direct and indirect impacts of ALAN on behavior, health, and abundance of various living creatures, especially insects and birds. Best management practices for reducing negative impacts of ALAN are also presented.
About Robert Sullivan:
Robert Sullivan is a visual resource scientist specializing in scenic resource management. During his 30 years in the Environmental Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, he designed and developed visual resource management methods, systems, and guidance for U.S. federal agencies, and also developed best management practices for reducing impacts from artificial light at night. He currently works as a private consultant, and in a volunteer capacity uses his expertise in horticulture and landscape architecture to manage a rooftop pollinator garden and other green spaces at the Center on Halsted in Chicago.
What is a Climate Action Program?
Climate Action Programs are presentations, workshops and other events that promote awareness over the need to take action in order to reduce our carbon footprint. We aim to make Climate Action accessible and engaging to everybody by providing fun programs that spark curiosity and a desire to take better care of ourselves and our planet.
This event is open to everybody, regardless of location. Library card is not needed to register
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