Town & City Light Pollution Petitions

 

Below are petitions you can help sign. It doesn't matter where you live--if you help sign a light pollution petition on the other side of the world, it just shows city planners that people all over the world care about the choice they make. Most of these petitions are with Change.org, and once you sign in, it will keep you signed in, making signing additional petitions a breeze!

If your city doesn't have a petition to stop blue-rich, white LEDs, consider starting one, and contact me so I can post a link to it here.  Phoenix and Québec both started petitions and got their council members to listen. Please share your petition with local social media sites such as NextDoor, Facebook, Twitter, with neighborhoods, city committee meetings, council members, local astronomy, beautification, health and environmental groups, (or a University's Landscape Architecture or Urban and Regional Planning departments), and especially consider reaching out to the local news stations and telling them about your petition, as that is what usually gets the word out to many people. Help however you feel comfortable (anything is better than nothing!). Together, we can make a difference!

 

Canada

Toronto

Québec (SUCCESS!)

Switch Most of the Blue LED Street Lights in Most Canadian Cities to PC Amber LEDs

China

Hong Kong

Italy

Rome

Venice, Italy (Help stop light pointing to the sky)

Malta

Gozo (and elsewhere)

New Zealand

Dunedin

UK

The UK Government

Southampton

United States

Ban LED and HID headlights (the kind that blind you when you're driving even without their brights being on), and here is another

Arizona

Phoenix (SUCCESS!) 

NEW!! Statewide (started August 2020)

California

Pasadena

San Francisco

Florida

St. Johns County (Digital Billboards)

Illinois

Chicago

Iowa

Iowa City

Maryland

Baltimore

Massachusetts

Cambridge

Nantucket

Michigan

Detroit (Ford Field)

Minnesota

Duluth

New York

Kingston

Merrick

Oregon

Portland

North Carolina

Charlotte

Texas

Houston

Utah

Layton

Washington

Seattle (and another here).