Community Friendly Lighting – IESDC Event

This was my second IESDC event, and this event and the last one were both educational. This event was about how the exterior lighting is changing and isn’t changing for the best for nature. Lighting now is changing to everything LED, which means the yellow lights are now turning into bright white. This brings up circadian lighting and how it makes a huge problem not only for humans, but for animals.

This event really opened my eyes to how humans are really affecting nature. The LEDs are producing light that projects as daylight to humans and animals’ circadian rhythm. This affects that animals because they are not going to know if it is night time or day time and it can cause a lot of health problems.

Another thing that shocked me is that they are changing to LED lights but home owners don’t really care for LED, they rather have the yellow phosphorus. LED lights were meant to bring a type of protection, because it is so pose to scare the bad guys away. They showed studies on how the LED lights are too bright for home owners and the bright light even making a difference with robberies.

This event is making me want to come up with a new way to design an exterior light that will provided a good amount of light but will not bother humans’ or animals’ circadian rhythm. I know that this could be hard but this event made me want to make some type of difference in the world.