Materials for outreach events

• Table
• Banner for table
• Chairs
• Protect the New Mexico Night Sky brochures
• Fact sheets for taping to table
• Sheet for DarkSky approved fixtures and link
• Sheet showing good and bad fixtures
• Easel and poster for NM
• Large images (e.g., Milky Way, dark and light views of sky)
• Shade structure (as needed)
• Banner for shade structure
• sign up sheet for email addresses (and make sure to communicate these after the event!)

Standard pitch / talking points

• get their concerns
• get them to sign signup sheet with email address (make sure to communicate this sheet after the event!)
• get them to join DarkSky International
• critical importance of talking to others about the issue, even if just to say it’s important to you
  • friends and neighbors
  • retailers
  • local and state politicians
• key points
  • don’t need to turn out lihgts, just need to put light where and when it is needed
  • five principles
• useful terminology for talking with people
  • glare
  • light trespass

Frequently asked questions and appropriate responses

• My neighbor has bright lights that bug me:

• There are city lights near my home that bug me: