{"id":9328,"date":"2017-05-05T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2017-05-05T09:04:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:04:29","slug":"light-pollution-maps-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/05\/light-pollution-maps-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Pollution Maps, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a long dormant thread<\/a>, I asked when light pollution could be addressed. In Colorado, they’ve done just that, as Melissa Breyer reports <\/a>on Treehugger.com<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

But if it’s up to the residents of Westcliffe and Silver Cliff, two small towns in western Colorado that comprise Wet Mountain Valley, the great night sky will not be lost. After some 15 years of hard work, they’re finally seeing the light. And in fact, they boast some of the darkest skies on the planet, luring in stargazers from near and far to feast on the delights of pitch dark heavens studded with stars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In their (approved<\/a>) application<\/a> to become Colorado’s first designated International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) community, they decribe their work as “a long 15-year process to change the mindsets of these old western communities from one of ‘Don\u2019t tell me what I can and can\u2019t do’ to ‘How can we protect our beautiful Wet Mountain Valley\u2019s rural charm from being lost to big-city problems like light pollution?'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there’s a lovely video that goes with it. And I admit I laughed when a local resident, who I must admire (and envy!), say that the Milky Way (the galaxy in which our solar system resides) “… is the most magnificent thing in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a long dormant thread, I asked when light pollution could be addressed. In Colorado, they’ve done just that, as Melissa Breyer reports on Treehugger.com: But if it’s up to the residents of Westcliffe and Silver Cliff, two small towns in western Colorado that comprise Wet Mountain Valley, the great \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9329,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}