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Sacred Sky Sacred Earth new website

Summer is a time-proven golden opportunity to run special interest agendas through when you do not want a bunch of people to know what you are up to. Case and point would be Granite Construction Corporation’s euphemistically named “Liberty Quarry” project. Problem is that they have chosen a section of land to develop which would spell the end of the last wild river and the last wild life corridor in Southern California. LAST. Ain’t no more. All bought up, paved, built on and converted to contemporary ideas of civilization.

I recently became aware of this project as it would mean the destruction, actually the erasure of sites which are sacred to the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians. Having grown up with sacred sites on the islands of both sides of my family (Crete and Samothrace) I have an idea of what their loss would mean – especially to future generations.

Long story short, I will be spending more time updating the new Sacred Sky Sacred Earth website than adding to this one. Please visit by clicking the image below and signing a petition to help save this LAST section of land from destructive development.

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Sacred Sky Sacred Earth: Coronado (Sunday March 20, 2011)

Art, dance, and music on Coronado's North Beach as the sun sets and the moon rises.
This Vernal Equinox you are invited to bring family and friends to SACRED SKY SACRED EARTH: CORONADO

This Vernal Equinox you are invited to bring family and friends to
SACRED SKY SACRED EARTH: CORONADO

Dress warmly, wear comfortable shoes, and join us on the sand to enjoy the creativity of
Coronado School of the Arts (CoSA) Actors, Dancers, Musicians, Technicians, Visual and Media Artists
Directed by Betzi Roe.

The evening will feature contemplative art, dance, and music on Coronado’s North Beach
as the sun sets and the moon rises.

Sunday, March 20   North Beach Coronado (Map)
Event opens at 6:00 p.m.   Admission is free thanks to a grant from the NEA
Programme from 6:30 to 7:30   SacredSkySacredEarth.com

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Hey, Light, Get Off of My Lawn!

“Description: With half of the world’s population now living in cities, many urban dwellers have never experienced the wonderment of pristinely dark skies and maybe never will. This loss, caused by light pollution, is a concern on many fronts: safety, energy conservation, cost, health and effects on wildlife, as well as our ability to view the stars. Even though light pollution is a serious and growing global concern, it is one of the easiest environmental problems people can address on local levels. In this podcast, super hero, Dark Skies Crusader, helps Jenny, Mom, Barb and Mr. Jennings, learn about the effect of light pollution on not being able to sleep and gives a simple solution. More information is discussed on the effects of light pollution on human health in general. And to provide opportunities for public involvement in dark skies preservation and energy conservation, we invite the public to participate in the GLOBE at Night campaign”

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OUR VIEW: City, Stop Polluting With Wasteful Light

“City revenues are up, so we’re in a race to undo even the most painless cost savings achieved during recession. By turning off one-third of our streetlights, we saved $1.27 million annually. That’s money we could use to improve streets, maintain parks or build infrastructure that would attract jobs. It’s money that could pay for needs, rather than light pollution.”

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Tiny Sark Named First ‘Dark-Sky’ Island

Lights Out: Tiny Sark Named First 'Dark-Sky' Island
Lights Out: Tiny Sark Named First 'Dark-Sky' Island

The International Dark-Sky Association has named the English Channel island of Sark its first “dark-sky” island.

There are billions and billions of stars in the sky, but most people in the developed world can only see a handful of them because of light pollution. Street lamps, illuminated signs and floodlit monuments all send light into the atmosphere, obscuring the much fainter stars.

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Govt. releases National Lighting Code to encourage good lighting practices

“NetIndian News Network
New Delhi, January 28, 2011

The Government has released the National Lighting Code (NLC) that is aimed at encouraging good lighting practices and systems to minimise light pollution, glare, light trespass and conserve energy while maintaining safety, security, utility and productivity.”

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Night owls may want to dim their lights….

“Study finds that that night-time lighting reduces hormone associated with sleep and health

People who spend their evenings in relatively bright light run the risk of stressing their bodies by ratcheting down the production of melatonin. Produced in the brain’s pineal gland, this hormone plays a pivotal role in setting the body’s biological clock – and, potentially, in limiting the development of certain cancers.”

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A Cosmic Effort

“It all started when Gail Topping began losing the Milky Way.

For years, from her home in the hills above Ojai, she could see the gauzy, faint galaxy streaking across the sky, along with Orion, the Big Dipper and Pleiades.

I track the changing of summer and winter by the constellations, she said.

But as light from Ojai’s streets, stadiums and parking lots increased, the dark skies started getting lighter and the Milky Way started to fade.

I was losing something like a landscape, and I didn’t like it, she said. I held onto this idea that it had to stop. “