Community groups, residents, businesses and Cumbria Highways are taking part in the first ‘Big Switch Off’ in Ambleside next Saturday. The lighting switch off, from 9.30pm onwards, aims to raise awareness about the value of dark skies for people’s enjoyment and health, for wildlife to flourish, and the need to tackle climate change by reducing energy consumption. The event is being coordinated by Ambleside Action For A Future (AAFAF) and the Dark Skies Cumbria Project and takes place during International Dark Skies Week. Gillian Kelly, AAFAF coordinator, said: “We are privileged to live in a beautiful area and we know we must reduce our carbon footprint as individuals and as a community.
COMMUNITY groups, residents, businesses and Cumbria Highways are taking part in the first ‘Big Switch Off’ in Ambleside on next Saturday. The lighting switch off, from 9.30pm onwards, aims to raise awareness about the value of dark skies for people’s enjoyment and health, for wildlife to flourish, and the need to tackle climate change by reducing energy consumption. The event is being coordinated by Ambleside Action For A Future (AAFAF) and the Dark Skies Cumbria Project, and takes place during International Dark Skies Week. Gillian Kelly, AAFAF Coordinator, said: “We are privileged to live in a beautiful area and we know we must reduce our carbon footprint as individuals and as a community. Electricity consumption is rising rapidly, switching to renewables is vital and low energy LEDs are now the norm. We must also look to reduce the wasteful use of energy and ask ourselves, do we really need so many lights on all through the night?
First in UK to use dark sky friendly LED lights newsandstar.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsandstar.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dark skies will provide a beacon of light in an online festival next month. This year’s virtual Cumbria Dark Skies Festival aims to light up February evenings with a spectacular array of online events celebrating the wonders of the night sky. Organisers are convinced that the astronomers, astrophotographers, authors, filmmakers, lighting and design professionals, performers, poets and outdoor adventurers involved “will engage, enthral, wow and challenge us to think about darkness in a new light.” The festival will be broadcast online events spanning 17 evenings next month, from Friday, February 5 to Sunday,February 21. Bookings have now opened, giving you the opportunity to sign up and explore our universe and dark skies with renowned local, regional and national experts.