Sponsored By: EVLUMA With Sabine Frank 12/14/2022- Restoring Darkness #57 (Full Episode) – Sabine Frank 54:42 Sabine is a full time Dark Sky Officer for the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sternenpark Rhön. Sabine explains to Michael how she has become an expert on laws regarding light and light pollution. While she can’t issue tickets (yet), … Read more
Sponsored By: EVLUMA With Thomas Herrholz 10/26/2022- Restoring Darkness #53 (Full Episode) – Thomas Herrholz 33:39 Wind turbines are a zero emissions solution to energy needs. But with solutions, new problems always arise. We’ve all seen the giant wind turbines towering into the sky and with any tower, there is a risk for air traffic. … Read more
Sponsored By: EVLUMA With Yana Yakushina 9/10/2022- Restoring Darkness #50 (Full Episode) – Yana Yakushina 1:03:11 There’s air pollution, water pollution and noise pollution. Why hasn’t light pollution been recognised the same way? This is the question Michael Colligan and John Bullock tackle with Yana. Of course it takes awareness, but also commitment. And it … Read more
Sponsored By: EVLUMA With Ken Walczak 9/2/2022- Restoring Darkness #49 (Full Episode) – Ken Walczak 1:06:01 As you’ve heard on this podcast before, existing satellites are incapable of detecting the blue light of LED’s and thus produce incomplete imagery of light pollution. Ken explains to Michael how he and his colleagues are sending balloons almost … Read more
Sponsored By: EVLUMA With Catherine Pérez Vega 8/17/2022- Restoring Darkness #48 (Full Episode) – Catherine Pérez Vega 54:12 Michael discusses with Catherine Pérez Vega the question: Is light a pollutant? Catherine is researching the effects of artificial light on organisms and there is little doubt that it is. And there’s little doubt that it affects … Read more
Sponsored By: EVLUMA With Nona Schulte-Römer 6/8/2022- Restoring Darkness #44 (Full Episode) – Nona Schulte-Römer 1:10:18 John Bullock, guest co-host on this episode, asks the question, “How do we shift the argument so that we can start to talk about the reality of what we experience rather than the propaganda of what people tell us … Read more
Sponsored By: EVLUMA With Rémi Boucher 2/16/2022- Restoring Darkness #37 (Full Version) – Rémi Boucher 36:49 Scientific coordinator for the Mont-Megantic International Dark Sky Reserve, Rémi Boucher has been passionate about the starry sky and the night experience for many years. Do people believe that light pollution is actually pollution or a metaphor? Michael and … Read more
Sponsored By: EVLUMA With Megan Porter 10/27/2021- Starving for Darkness #28 (Full Version) – Megan Porter 1:01:41 Megan Porter PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research program is focused on understanding the evolution of animal eye diversity, particularly from a molecular perspective. … Read more
Sponsored By: EVLUMA With Bettymaya Foott 9/29/2021- Starving for Darkness #24 (Full Version) – Bettymaya Foott 1:05:34 Bettymaya Foott works for the International Dark-Sky Association as Director of Engagement. Preserving dark skies is her life goal and she finds that astrophotography is the most poignant way to express a love for the night, as well … Read more
Sponsored By: Keystone With Jane Slade 3/24/2021- Dark Sky Special March(Full Version) – Jane Slade 27:02 Our dark sky series has spun off into Starving for Darkness, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be checking in with Michael and Jane periodically to discuss what is going on with light pollution concerns. The movement for darker … Read more