Lights Out Portland

Building owners and residents can help by voluntarily turning off unnecessary overnight lighting during migration seasons!

How Can Building Owners and Managers Help?

Buildings can extinguish unnecessary overnight lighting from late August through mid-November (fall) and mid-March through early June (spring). Top priority is turning off exterior, ornamental and rooftop architectural lighting. Buildings can also extinguish interior lighting on upper floors, move maintenance and cleaning activities to daytime hours, turn off upward-directed sign lighting and make sure that outdoor lights are properly shielded. Take the Pledge to Go Lights Out or contact Mary Coolidge.

How Can Residents Help?

Light Pollution is the accumulation of many sources of poorly designed or excessive lighting. We can all contribute to the solution by evaluating the way we use light. Take the Pledge to go Lights Out today! Make sure your exterior light fixtures are well-shielded and not overly bright. Select warm LED bulbs that are under a 3,000 Kelvin rating. During migration seasons, draw blinds or curtains to reduce light spill that contributes to sky glow. Looking for good lighting? The International Dark-sky Association has a Fixture Seal of Approval program!

If birds are hitting your windows, there are a variety of ways to reduce strikes at home year-round.

Need a Cash Incentive?

Energy Trust of Oregon offers incentives to increase the energy-efficiency of lighting fixtures and controls. Visit Energy Trust of Oregon to learn more.

Worried About Safety?

Read up on some interesting research that urges us to think more critically about the relationship between lighting and safety: