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We aim to make progress Toward Responsible Outdoor Lighting. We want outdoor lighting that reduces our impacts on the environment and the people, while still providing sufficient light to meet the needs of the people. New lighting technologies and a better understanding of the impacts of lighting on human and non-human animals opens pathways to responsible lighting.

Join us if you are concerned about the rapid reduction of insects and birds. You may also be concerned about the impacts our disconnect from dark nights with a beautiful skies covered with stars or moonlit nights and the impacts this may have on us.

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[Feb. 09, 2026] News: The Toward Responsible Outdoor Lighting VCC is under construction. Visit again soon to see the progress.

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[Feb. 09, 2026] TROL VCC opened: The "Toward Responsible Outdoor Lighting VCC" has been initialized and is open now.

[Feb. 02, 2026] A World of Inequality: "The data presented here are striking. The richest 10% of the global population own close to three-quarters of all wealth, while the poorest half hold barely 2%. Fewer than 60,000 multi-millionaires now control three times more wealth than half of humanity combined." From the World Inequality Report 2026. In this world of growing inequality, the global population appears to be dominate and exploited by the few super wealthy.

[Jan. 28, 2026] ThirdActTWVCC VCC opened: The "Third Act Tidewater VCC" has been initialized and is open now.

[Jan. 28, 2026] It may not be too late to fix the Web: The article titled “ ‘It’s not too late to fix it’: internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul of the web’” by Daisy Dumas published in The Guardian states that the founder of the world wide web says the commercialisation of the Web has been ‘optimised for nastiness’. But Breners-Lee believes that collaboration and compassion can prevail. This is what Place4Us is all about.

[Jan. 09, 2026] Ocean Heat Content Sets Another Record in 2025: The analysis published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences reveals that global ocean warming continued unabated in 2025 in response to increased greenhouse gas concentrations and recent reductions in sulfate aerosols. In the article by Damian Carrington published in The Guardian, John Abraham, a member of the analysis team, is quoted: “Global warming is ocean warming. If you want to know how much the Earth has warmed or how fast we will warm into the future, the answer is in the oceans.”