Starving for Darkness #9 Restoring the Sacred

Sponsored By: Keystone Technologies With Mark Clipsham 5/26/2021- Starving for Darkness #9 (Full Version) – Mark Clipsham 1:05:02 Mark Clipsham – Architect, builder, consultant, master planner. While battling through his allergies, Mark has a thing or two to say about the growth economy, the constant drive for profit and what drives him nuts about the … Read more

Starving for Darkness #7 Awe Beyond Thought

Sponsored By: Keystone Technologies With Frank Turina 5/13/2021- Starving for Darkness #7 (Full Version) – Frank Turina 59:19 Check out Frank’s Night Sky Resource Center (www.nightskyresourcecenter.org) for some awesome astrophotography. Frank advocates seeing the night sky as a resource just like water and air. He tells us about his personal sense of “awe” in seeing … Read more

#187 There’s No Maximum Light Limit

Sponsored By: Keystone With Brian Amundson 5/12/2021- Lighting Episode 187(Full Version) – Brian Amundson 30:51 Brian Amundson of Pacific Lamp Wholesale and president-elect of NAILD is with us to discuss his experience working in dark sky lighting projects. As distributors we sell what customers ask for; and even if we wanted to pursue dark sky … Read more

#186 The Opportunity to be a Hero

Sponsored By: Keystone With Steve Perry 5/7/2021- Lighting Episode 186(Full Version) – Steve Perry 55:48 Steve Perry is the product trainer for the current sales staff at 1000Bulbs and works as liaison officer for its legendary CEO Kim Pedersen which includes among other things, new product lines, marketing strategies and vendor relations. Steve talks about … Read more

#185 Life is One of the Biggest Lies of LED

Sponsored By: Keystone With Martin Cole 4/26/2021- Lighting Episode 185(Full Version) – Marty Cole 48:18 Where does it cost $1500 bucks to change a light bulb? Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are one of the most useful chemicals ever invented. Big surprise LED manufacturers make ridiculous claims about lamp life; what else is new. And we talk … Read more

#174 The Vibe of the Lighting Industry

Sponsored By: Keystone With David Nathaniel 2/8/2021- Lighting Episode 174(Full Version) – David Nathaniel 44:53 David Nathaniel, CEO of Ascot Capital is here to talk about operating Stanpro, Lumentruss, Aimlite, Beghelli’s Canadian branch, and Gabriel Scott brands. He discusses what it means to keep up a diverse portfolio, his reputations for being hands-on and that … Read more

Dark Sky Special Part Six: Finding Balance

Sponsored By: Keystone With Ronald Gibbons 1/7/2021- Dark Sky Special Part Six(Full Version) – Ronald Gibbons 1:01:11 Ron Gibbons is the director for the Center for Infrastructure-based Safety Systems and an associate professor at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and here is to discuss his work and experience in the dark. As a Canadian, he … Read more

#167 Controls, Evangelized

Sponsored By: Keystone With George Filtsos 12/28/2020- Lighting Episode 167(Full Version) – George Filtsos 44:53 We welcome our first ever electrician on to the show, George Filtsos was there at the beginning of Daintree and has been working to push controls into more projects through all of the booms and busts in that field. We … Read more

Dark Sky Special Part Four: Night Matters

Sponsored By: Keystone With Sibylle Schroer 12/10/2020- Dark Sky Special Part Four(Full Version) – Sibylle Schroer 1:08:54 Sibylle Schroer is an ecologist from IGB, and joined us to discuss the role the increasing amounts of light at night plays in the experience of human and non-human wildlife. We discussed citizen science and the need for … Read more

#154 A Mascot for Lighting

Sponsored By: Keystone With Sam Koerbel 9/28/20 – Lighting Episode 150(Full Version) – Sam Koerbel 41:47 This week we have a crossover episode with Sam Koerbel of Lytei. Before he was an architectural engineer he was a mascot for his college football team, and that sense of building character and expressing enthusiasm is what drives … Read more