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.
Read more about Campaign For Dark Skies: Legislation, Dark Sky Park, Island and Reserve, Publications, Conferences
Famous quotes containing the words campaign, dark and/or skies:
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
—Mario Cuomo (b. 1932)
“The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made:
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view
That stand upon the threshold of the new.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)
“O make harmonious mix of voice and string
To him by whom the skies with clouds are lin’d;
By whom the rain, from clouds to drop assign’d,
Supples the clods of summer-scorched fields,”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXLVII (Paraphrased by The Countess of Pembroke)