This is a proposed focus for 2027. Sustainable Hill Farms is investigating the role we might play in making Hill Farms a Lights Out neighborhood and Madison a Lights Out city.

Lights Out programs are initiatives designed to reduce artificial light pollution during peak bird migration season. Because many birds migrate at night using the stars and moon for navigation, bright city lights can disorient them causing fatal collision with buildings. Participants turn off or dim non-essential exterior and interior lighting from late evening through dawn.