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Portland, OR - Like many other cities, Portland has taken to retrofitting all of its Street Lights to LEDs in order to save on energy costs. This is a great idea - EXCEPT - that the LED lights are invasive, soul-less, and disruptive. This is a petition to ask the City of Portland to install filters on the LEDs that will bring the lighting back to the warm, inviting ambience that they once were.
The new LEDs are so bright that people can walk about their homes at night by just drawing their shades. If people don't have shades, they have to purchase them in order to sleep at night. They also are increasing the light pollution so much that the once partially visible stars in the sky are now gone.
We want our neighborhoods to feel warm and inviting, not cold and surveillant.
Thanks Portland!
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Not many people care too much about the temperature of city lighting, but we astrophotographers care a LOT! Warmer lights go a long way toward creating a healthier environment that allows us all to remain better-connected to the night sky above us.
When will they stop with these stupid led lights already? No one likes them!
I hate these led street lights they are so bad
save warm lighting the LED's are to bright . hunt the eyes and the circadianrhythm
Portland is close to my heart. I live in Phoenix. It's too bright in cities at night.
105 Beach Street, Waikouaiti
These streetlights are awful. Same thing has happened to Seattle. A true tragedy
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
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Portland, OR - Like many other cities, Portland has taken to retrofitting all of its Street Lights to LEDs in order to save on energy costs. This is a great idea - EXCEPT - that the LED lights are invasive, soul-less, and disruptive. This is a petition to ask the City of Portland to install filters on the LEDs that will bring the lighting back to the warm, inviting ambience that they once were.
The new LEDs are so bright that people can walk about their homes at night by just drawing their shades. If people don't have shades, they have to purchase them in order to sleep at night. They also are increasing the light pollution so much that the once partially visible stars in the sky are now gone.
We want our neighborhoods to feel warm and inviting, not cold and surveillant.
Thanks Portland!
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This is important for our local ecology, as well as our own health to respect night vision and utilize the proper technology to ensure that we are not polluting our night sky’s with artificial light that disturbs the natural cycles of life
Not many people care too much about the temperature of city lighting, but we astrophotographers care a LOT! Warmer lights go a long way toward creating a healthier environment that allows us all to remain better-connected to the night sky above us.
When will they stop with these stupid led lights already? No one likes them!
I hate these led street lights they are so bad
save warm lighting the LED's are to bright . hunt the eyes and the circadianrhythm
Portland is close to my heart. I live in Phoenix. It's too bright in cities at night.
105 Beach Street, Waikouaiti
These streetlights are awful. Same thing has happened to Seattle. A true tragedy
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This is important for our local ecology, as well as our own health to respect night vision and utilize the proper technology to ensure that we are not polluting our night sky’s with artificial light that disturbs the natural cycles of life