What's new?

• IDA Press Releases
• E-News Service
  

IDA Publications

• Nightscape
• Specifier Bulletin for Lighting Applications
  

Background Information on IDA

• History
• IDA Fact Sheet
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Sense of Urgency (Why we care about outdoor lighting & why you should, too)

IDA Programs

• Dark Sky Communities, Parks, and Reserves
• Educational & Community Outreach
• Fixture Seal of Approval (FSA)
• FSA Fact Sheet
• Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO)
• Simple Guidelines for Outdoor Lighting Ordinances
• Specifier Bulletin

IDA Resources and Events

• Annual General Meeting and Conference
• Images for Press

Co-founders, President of the Board of Directors and Executive Director

• Dr. David L. Crawford and Dr. Tim Hunter, IDA Co-founders
• Rpbert Wagner, President of the Board of Directors
• Robert Parks, Executive Director, Washington, DC office of Public Policy and Government Affairs
  

Articles of Note

• "Dim Some, Lose Some" Dwell Magazine, (via Gizmodo)September 2010
   
• " Want to see better? We'd have to turn out the lights" by Ben Harder, Washington Post, 08 June 2010
• Fading Fast" by Anne Minard, National Parks Conservation Association, Spring 2010
   
• "Dark Sky Advocate Seeks to Illuminate" by Gregg MacDonald, Washington Post, 10 December 2009
   
• "Our Vanishing Night" by Verlyn Klinkenborg, National Geographic Magazine, November 2008
• "City Lights are Obscuring our Starry Nights" by Robert Lee Hotz, Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2008
• "Dark Sky Lighting: Simple but Effective" by Pete Strasser, IDA Technical Advisor, Landscape Architect, April 2008
• "Turning Out the Lights" by Ben Harder, U.S. News & World Report, March 14, 2008
• "The Dark Side: Making War on Light Pollution" by David Owen, The New Yorker
• "Lights Out" Interview by National Public Radio's Here & Now host Robin Young with Pete Strasser, IDA Technical Associate