61. NoiseOFF - The Coalition Against Noise Pollution - Home Coalition of world citizens combating noise pollution blighting communities everywhere. http://www.noiseoff.org/

Boom Cars Car Alarms Motorcycles Exhaust Systems ... Contact Us What Is Noise Pollution? Noise pollution is unwanted human-created sound that has the effect of being annoying, distracting, painful, or physically harmful. It is a public health issue that is adversely affecting the lives of millions of people throughout the world. People continuously exposed to noise experience hearing loss, elevated stress levels, mood swings, hypertension, depression, lost sleep and productivity. In children, it results in slowed learning. We are a coalition of citizens, elected representatives, law enforcement professionals, educators, researchers, students and activists from the United States and abroad. We are dedicated to combating this urban blight that is ruining communities everywhere. Sign up for our newsletter filled with stories about people working to reduce noise pollution in their lives and community and much more. Join in on the discussion at our message board Please PIPEDOWN Newsletter: October 2010 Heard in shopping malls, grocery stores, department stores, restaurants and elevators, piped music is ubiquitous and annoying. PIPEDOWN-USA is a published source for news about the campaign for freedom from piped music. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs SB 435 Into Law The California State Government has passed SB 435 that aims to increase enforcement of current anti-tampering and noise-level statutes for motorcycles.

62. New England Light Pollution Advisory Group (NELPAG) Everything to do with the problem in New England. Lots of links. Includes information on how to subscribe to the NELPAG forum. http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/nelpag/nelpag.html

The New England Light Pollution Advisory Group The New England Light Pollution Advisory Group (NELPAG) is a volunteer group founded during the autumn of 1993 for the purpose of educating the public on the virtues of efficient, glare-free outdoor night lighting and the tremendous benefits of low-lumen (low-light-output) lighting for many (if not most) outdoor applications. The NELPAG sponsors irregular meetings throughout the New England region that bring together lighting engineers, physicians, power utility representatives, government officials, astronomers, journalists, and the general public for discussion of improvement in outdoor night lighting. The goals of the NELPAG have been to provide resources to people involved in outdoor lighting issues, from state and city/town officials discussing the implementation of laws and bylaws, to utility companies who are concerned with street lighting, to ordinary people interested in lighting their store parking lot (or even their driveway or yard). Many outdoor lights are, in fact, completely unnecessary (such as most lights late at night, and streetlights along most limited-access highways, where 6-foot-high median barriers would provide much greater safety). On a separate webpage here, we outline the

63. Simple Steps You Can Take To Reduce Pollution - FREE Special Report! Featured article Types Of pollution Too Many For Our Small World. pollution is a word that no one is stranger to. We have heard it on the news, read it in articles, learned http://pollution.ecofriendlymind.com/

Welcome To Our Pollution Website! Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Pollution... Do Not Forget To Check Out Our Online Guides... Air Conditioning Air Pollution Air Quality Biodiversity ... Sitemap Featured article... Types Of Pollution: Too Many For Our Small World Pollution is a word that no one is stranger to. We have heard it on the news, read it in articles, learned about it in school, and we are affected by it on a daily basis. However, there are many types of pollution and each has its own set of causes and effects. Types Of Pollution: Air Pollution Exposure to this type of pollution can result in nasal problems, coughing, asthma, certain cancers, and heart problems. Types Of Pollution: Water Pollution Water is one of our Earth's precious resources and we are damaging it at alarming rates. There is a thinking out there that it is an endless supply, but that is far from the truth. There are several reasons for water pollution, which include: There are many other causes of this type of pollution and all are damaging to our marine mammals, fish, plant life, and to us. The toxins will cause illness and in many cases death. Types Of Pollution: Noise Pollution It is not until we are robbed of silence that we realize how important it is to our everyday health. Noise pollution is another type of pollution. Excess exposure to noise can affect our nervous system and cause unneeded stress to our minds and bodies. Some noise pollutant culprits include:

64. Institution Of Lighting Professionals - Home Forerunner in light pollution control in the UK. Publishes lighting codes and guidance available via the website. Website content is minimal. http://www.ile.org.uk/

Home News About Us Room Hire ... Forums Username Password Lost Login Details? Mail Chantal here HOME DIARY ... MEMBERS Home Latest News See all news Save Money and Keep the Lights ON The Institution of Lighting Professionals has issued a briefing note for decision-makers with responsibility for public realm lighting. More Lighting Design Awards 2011 - Extended Deadline The Lighting Design Awards 2011 is fast approaching, and the entry deadline for both projects and products has now been extended. More Fears over street lighting cutbacks The growing number of councils across the UK that are switching off street lights has prompted criticism from MPs and road safety groups.  Full story from the BBC or video version More MWay lighting to be turned off after midnight? An article in the Daily Telepgraph is indicating that motorway lighting is to be turned off after midnight to cut cash and Britain's carbon footprint. More The State of the Nation's Street Lighting 2010 A new edition of the industry survey. More The Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) is the UK and Ireland's largest and most influential professional lighting association, dedicated solely to excellence in lighting. Founded in 1924 as the Association of Public Lighting Engineers, the ILP has evolved to include lighting designers, consultants and engineers amongst its 2,200 strong membership. To find out more about us, click here You can now join as an Affiliate ONLINE To see ILP events you can click here to view our diary or here to find out more about the ILP Events team.

65. Pollution | Environment | Guardian.co.uk Video (53 sec), 18 Oct 2010 An Environment Agency survey has found more than 1,500 rivers with signs of otters 10 times more than 30 years ago. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/pollution

document.domain = "guardian.co.uk"; Turn autoplay off Turn autoplay on Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Jump to content [s] Jump to site navigation [0] Jump to search [4] Terms and conditions [8] ... Register Text larger smaller About us About us Contact us Press office Guardian Print Centre ... Subscribe Today's paper The Guardian G2 features Comment and debate Editorials, letters and corrections ... Subscribe Zeitgeist Today's hot topics guardian.co.uk Environment Web News Sport Comment Culture ... Webfeed Pollution Most recent Toxic waste clean-up on Olympic site cost taxpayers £12.7m 12 Nov 2010: East London site was left 'grossly contaminated' by chemical storage facility demolished to make way for stadium Tony Hayward: Public saw us as 'fumbling and incompetent' 11 Nov 2010: Ex-BP boss says when oil spill hit, BP was forced to make up disaster response as it went along BP oil spill: White House rewrote drilling ban report 10 Nov 2010: Changes to the text suggested – wrongly – that scientists and engineers supported the ban on deepwater drilling BP had little defence against a disaster, federal investigation says

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67. Donate To FLAP Information on how light pollution affects birds, and what steps must be taken to save the lives of birds by reducing lighting. http://www.flap.org/

Each year in Toronto, over a million birds are killed by colliding with buildings.

68. Japan - Pollution Japan Table of Contents. As Japan changed from an agricultural society to an urbanized industrial power, much of its natural beauty was destroyed and defaced by http://countrystudies.us/japan/49.htm

Pollution Japan Table of Contents As Japan changed from an agricultural society to an urbanized industrial power, much of its natural beauty was destroyed and defaced by overcrowding and industrial development. However, as the world's leading importer of both exhaustible and renewable natural resources and the second largest consumer of fossil fuels, Japan came to realize that it had a major international responsibility to conserve and protect the environment. By 1990 Japan had some of the world's strictest environmental protection regulations. These regulations were the consequence of a number of wellpublicized environmental disasters. Cadmium poisoning from industrial waste in Toyama Prefecture was discovered to be the cause of the extremely painful itai itai disease ( itai itai Groups also pressured the government and industry for a system of compensation for pollution victims. A series of lawsuits in the early 1970s established that corporations were responsible for damage cause by their products or activities. The Pollution Health Damage Compensation Law of 1973 provides industry funds for victims. Compensation, however, was slow, and awards were small, but the establishment of a government fund helped industry diffuse public outrage. In 1984 it was reported that Japan had more than 85,000 recognized victims of environmental pollution, with an estimated rate of increase of 6 percent a year. The regulations aimed at business were not enough to solve Japan's environmental problems, according to the Environment Agency's 1989

69. DarkSky Locator Use this site to find a light-pollution-free location. View conditions from various cities around the world. http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/Night/darksky.htm

World View United States Europe Japan Australia ... SE Asia Visitor Number e-Mail Sign Guestbook View Guestbook Links

70. Pollution - EHow.com Learn about pollution on eHow.com. Find info and videos including What Kind of Chemical Pollutants Pollute Water?, Criteria Pollutants Vs. Hazardous Pollutants, Wood Burning http://www.ehow.com/pollution/

Family Food Health Home Money Style More Home Pollution Pollution Pollution Featured Articles What Kind of Chemical Pollutants Pollute Water? Water pollution comes from many forms: erosion sediment, effluent or bacteriological contaminants, trash and chemicals. Out of the four, chemicals can have the worst effects and the biggest impact. The water system has the ability to handle reasonable quantities of sediment and effluent, and trash can be filtered out. Chemical... Criteria Pollutants Vs. Hazardous Pollutants With technology expanding in the United States and worldwide, air pollution is also growing. People are exposed to a number of chemicals, pesticides and other pollutants that can cause major health concerns and damage the environment. Government organizations related to health, safety and the environment have categorized air... Wood Burning Pollution As Compared to Car Pollution Burning either wood or gasoline as fuel has both immediate and long-term effects on personal and public health and the environment. Whereas the impact of wood smoke is more on the immediate individual, car emissions contribute more to air pollution problems on a global front. What Are Criteria Pollutants?

71. Royal Astronomical Society Of Canada - Light Pollution Abatement Explains how the problem is and can be tackled in Canada with the LPAP. Contains helpful Canadian information. http://www.rasc.ca/light/

Site Search Home The Society Publications Education ... News Light Pollution Abatement Program Light Pollution Abatement Home Dark Sky Designations Certificates of Merit LPA Discussion Group ... LPA Committee New Items The Vanishing Night YouTube Video Added 2010/10/28. IES-IDA MLO 1.7 MB PDF Added 2010/10/28. RASC Position on MLO Updated 2010/11/02. Gordon's Park Dark Sky Preserve Added 2010/07/26. Dark Sky Site Guidelines Added 2009/12/02. Sky Quality Measurement Project Light Pollution Abatement Program Overview The goal of the RASC Light Pollution Abatement (LPA) Program is to reduce the levels of light pollution in urban and rural areas by advising Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments and departments along with business and concerned citizens to take action to reduce unnecessary glare uplight and light trespass Cinzano Canada Image, showing Light Polluted Areas. White areas, are very heavily light polluted. Black=" dark sky" and White ="light polluted". It is a constructive and advisory program that encourages meetings at the local l evel between concerned citizens and governments, business and the media to inform and advise these groups on the problems created by light pollution. We provide practical recommendations to reduce obtrusive lighting. The program is managed by the RASC

72. Pollution | Go-Green pollution comes from man made chemicals or natural materials released by human activities. Pollutants are found worldwide in air, water, and land. http://www.go-green.com/node/164

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73. Dark Skies For The Adirondacks Online community of New York anti-light-pollution campaigners with photographs, newsletters, legislation and other local resources. http://www.timesunion.com/communities/darksky/

74. Pollution Legal Definition Of Pollution. Pollution Synonyms By The Free Online L The contamination of the air, water, or earth by harmful or potentially harmful substances. The U.S. environmental movement in the 1960s emerged from concerns that air, water http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Pollution

75. How Does Light Pollution Harm Us All? A short explanation of the problem. http://www.njaa.org/light.html

Light Pollution New images quantify a nocturnal pollutant March 18, 2006 What's light pollution? Click here and see Clinton Township Lighting Ordinance I know many non-amateur astronomers are saying "Huh? What's that?" The best way to describe Light Pollution is to give you a couple of examples. While driving on any highway or road at night, do you have to squint from the glare as you approach street lights? Does the street light in front of your house shine into your windows to the point where you need the blinds down to sleep at night? Does your neighbors light on his back porch light up YOUR back yard? When you look up at the sky on a cloudy night, can you see the clouds? Well if you've answered yes to any of these questions you've experienced light pollution. What are the adverse impacts of poor night time lighting? Urban Sky Glow : Just because we're 50+ miles from NYC doesn't mean we're rural anymore. Look around! Urban sky glow is destroying the rural look of Hunterdon County and our view of the universe. We don't live in the clouds; we don't need to light them. Direct Glare : Direct glare is defined as the visual discomfort resulting from insufficiently shielded light sources in the field of view. One should "see the effect, not the light source". Use of the term "direct glare" is recommended in lieu of the word "glare" alone. The direct glare definition means if you can see an unshielded lamp, or the luminaire maximum candlepower zone, you may well have glare. However, usually when you are near a luminaire, you will see these parameters, of course. So a reasonable definition limiting the field of view is required.

76. Pollution pollution News and analysis on current events, pollution business, finance, economy, sports and more. Searchable news in 44 languages from WorldNews Network and Archive http://wn.com/Pollution

77. Light Pollution Information about the problem in Croydon. http://www.croydonastro.org.uk/lights.htm

78. Prevention Of Air Pollution Oct 29, 2010 A compilation of some simple steps for prevention of air pollution, which will help you do your bit to save environment. Continue reading for more information on http://www.buzzle.com/articles/prevention-of-air-pollution.html

Home World News Latest Articles Escape Hatch ... Endless Buzz Prevention of Air Pollution A compilation of some simple steps for prevention of air pollution, which will help you do your bit to save the environment. Continue reading for more information on atmospheric pollution, and why we need to take it seriously. Air pollution is a phenomenon wherein the release of harmful chemicals in the atmosphere results in contamination of air, and makes it unsuitable for various lifeforms on the planet. It is considered to be one of the most serious environmental issues in the world. If air pollution statistics compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) are to be believed, more than 3 million people in the world die due to some health problems related to environmental air pollution every year. That's not at all surprising, considering that the harmful effects of air pollution range from various health disorders in humans to destruction of the ozone layer of the atmosphere. All being said, our priority now has to be prevention of air pollution and efforts need to start at the very grass root level, i.e. from our side. Before we move on to the details of these 'efforts', let's go through some important air pollution facts which emphasize on the need of its prevention.

79. Rose City Astronomers Includes a information about the effects of light pollution and local darksky sites. http://www.rosecityastronomers.org/resources/ida.htm

Home About RCA Information Officers Membership Outreach ... Sister Clubs Observing Schedule Observing Sites Star Party Tips AL Awards ... Observing Site Fund Members RCA Forum Forum Recent Posts Forum Instructions Special Interests ... Magazines Knowledge Base Resources Member Websites Links Site Index Oregon Dark Skies Rose City Astronomers are proud members of the International Dark Sky Association. News, articles, multimedia and more from the IDA! The RCA IDA Chairman is Dawn Nilson who can be reached at ida@rosecityastronomers.org Why are engineers, medical professionals, and amateur astronomers, concerned about the effects of Light Pollution? Some studies show: the effects of not sleeping in total darkness can degrade the immune system of animals and humans. Poor lighting and wasted energy is misuse of electricity and money. Misdirected light, 'Light Trespass' is a nuisance and architecturally unappealing. Studies show that various uses of lighting may actually increase crime, just exactly the opposite of what people try to achieve. The light pollution from inferior lighting design on highways creates a hazard to driving known as 'Road Glare.'

80. Pollution | Biological Indicators Of Watershed Health | US EPA This page describes potential effects of pollution on their local watersheds. http://www.epa.gov/bioiweb1/aquatic/pollution.html

@import 'http://www.epa.gov/epafiles/s/epa.css'; Jump to main content. Aquatic Biodiversity Contact Us Search: All EPA This Area You are here: EPA Home Biological Indicators of Watershed Health Aquatic Biodiversity Threats to Aquatic Biodiversity Pollution Pollution To learn more about the major threats to aquatic biodiversity please select from the following: Exotic Species Human Bias Habitat Loss and Degradation Overexploitation ... Dredging Oceans have historically been the dumping grounds for the wastes from society. Fortunately, this view has changed and regulations have become much more stringent, but the effects of the past still linger. Pollution has been very damaging to aquatic ecosystems, and may consist of agricultural, urban, and industrial wastes containing contaminants such as sewage, fertilizer, and heavy metals that have proven to be very damaging to aquatic habitats and species. In addition to toxic pollutants, increased nutrients, especially nitrogen and phosphorus, from city sewage and fertilizers from agricultural areas (e.g. animal feed lots) have also proven to be very damaging to aquatic ecosystems. Certain levels of these nutrients are known to cause harmful algal blooms in both freshwater and marine habitats. In turn, algal blooms impact aquatic biodiversity by affecting water clarity, depleting oxygen levels, and crowding out organisms within an ecosystem. In some instances algal blooms have produced neuro-toxins that have led to species die-offs and illnesses such as paralytic shellfish poisoning.

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