Campaign For Dark Skies
The Campaign for Dark Skies (CfDS) is the United Kingdom's biggest anti-light-pollution campaign group.
It is part of the British Astronomical Association (BAA) and affiliated with the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA), and composed of a network of local officers (and other members) who try to improve lighting in their areas and advise local people.
The campaign was founded in 1989 by amateur astronomers as a sub-section of the BAA specialising in combatting skyglow. It is now open to non-members of the BAA, includes lighting engineers and environmentalists, and campaigns on the wider effects of light pollution.
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Famous quotes containing the words campaign, dark and/or skies:
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
—Mario Cuomo (b. 1932)
“Slowly he entered dark and silence and lay there for so long that with what judgement remained he judged them to be final.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)