Light Pollution and Its Impact on Green Spaces – Garden Club Presentation

Please join us Tuesday, March 11 at 7 PM at the Library Community Room as the Easton Garden Club  sponsors a presentation from Craig Repasz, from Lights Out Connecticut. Repasz will share with us the impact of light pollution here in Easton.  We are experiencing an exponential increase in this kind of pollution in Connecticut that affects birds and their migrations, and insects, bats, amphibians, pollinators, plants, and our own health. Other impacts of this silent pollution in our area are the costs of wasted energy and the increase of our carbon footprint. Light Pollution works against our efforts to create healthy habitat for wildlife and humans in our land trusts, parks, pollinator gardens, and open spaces. This presentation will focus on the impacts and mitigation of this pollution which often goes unrecognized.

The Easton Garden Club will hold its monthly membership meeting at 6:30PM, and the presentation, free and open to all, will follow at 7PM. Please join us at 7PM as you are able in the Community Room of the Easton Library (691 Morehouse Rd.)

Speaker: Craig Repasz Craig Repasz is a co-founder and Chair of Lights Out Connecticut. He also serves as the President of the Friends of Stewart B McKinney NWR, an organization devoted to supporting this important refuge. He was president of the New Haven Bird Club and the conservation chair of the Connecticut Ornithological Association. He has been the volunteer coordinator for the Connecticut Bird Atlas for six years. He is the administrator for the Big Sit! an internation birding event. He enjoys backpacking and conducts Mountain Birdwatch surveys for the Vermont Center of Eco studies, focusing on the Bicknell’s Thrush and other high elevation species.