Inlightenment
Published 02-12-21
Inlightenment
Dr. James Karl Fischer PhD
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The Zoological Lighting Institute is pleased to introduce the ‘
Inlightenment’ blog series. This series articulates ZLI s Mission by considering various photobiological topics, along with their importance for public health, safety, welfare, and social justice.
Inlightenment is a new take on and development of ‘enlightenment’ that recognizes the integration of non-human animal life within human life and eschews faulty ideas of separation that hinder science, sustainability, and community wellbeing.
Inlightenment focuses on physical light, rather than the dogmatic, theological concept of light that inspired 18th century science and industrial norms. It is intent on exploring the photobiological categories of the