# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Healthy Outdoor Lighting: The Benefits of Protecting Dark Skies and Reducing Light Pollution
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: How does outdoor lighting impact our health, bird migratory patterns, and pollinator populations? This presentation will cover these issues, as well as what steps we all can take to save energy, improve health outcomes, and enhance our enjoyment of the night sky.

Jan Heimlich is a freelance writer who lives in Rockland and oversees a weekly discussion group called Middle Ground that aims to find common-sense solutions to ongoing challenges. She is a board member of Dark Sky Maine, a nonprofit organization that promotes Maine’s dark sky heritage. As a member of the Rockland Energy and Sustainability Advisory Committee, Jan has launched an 18-month Healthy Outdoor Lighting awareness campaign to share with the community the benefits of improving outdoor lighting so it saves energy and cost, protects the health of humans, birds, and insects, and enhances our enjoyment of the night sky.

John Meader began teaching astronomy in 1979 as a student at the University of Maine's Jordan Planetarium. From 1973 to 1988, he was the director of the Francis Malcolm Science Center Planetarium in Easton, Maine, and has taught various observational astronomy classes at the University of Maine at Orono, the University of Maine at Presque Isle, and Kennebec Valley Community College. For the last 38 years, John has been sharing his love for the night sky with his portable Northern Stars Planetarium that welcomes under the dome over 15,000 students each year. He is a fellow of the International Planetarium Society and the Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society and a founding member of Dark Sky Maine. John, who has a passion for photography, has shown his work in more than 20 photography shows. He and his wife Laura live in Fairfield, Maine.

This event will take place in the Community Room. For more info, please email elewis@rocklandmaine.gov.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rockland/healthy-outdoor-lighting-the-benefits-of-protecting-dark-skies-and-reducing-light-pollution/200029545171811
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, workshops, art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Rockland
- **state**: ME
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 80 Union St, Rockland, ME, United States, Maine 04841
- **lat**: 44.10528
- **long**: -69.11198
- **full address**: 80 Union St, Rockland, ME, United States, Maine 04841

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Healthy Outdoor Lighting: The Benefits of Protecting Dark Skies and Reducing Light Pollution being held?
  - **A:** Healthy Outdoor Lighting: The Benefits of Protecting Dark Skies and Reducing Light Pollution takes place on Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm at 80 Union St, Rockland, ME, United States, Maine 04841.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Healthy Outdoor Lighting: The Benefits of Protecting Dark Skies and Reducing Light Pollution?
  - **A:** Healthy Outdoor Lighting: The Benefits of Protecting Dark Skies and Reducing Light Pollution is organized by Rockland Public Library.

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