Restoring Darkness
Episodes
Episode 15: Chipping Away At Municipal Light Ordinance Indifference with Barry Johnson
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Johnson is the volunteer webmaster for the Pennsylvania Outdoor Lighting Council, as well as a lecturer and consultant on outdoor lighting issue...
Episode 14: The Space Tourism Race with Valerie Stimac Bailey
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Valerie Stimac Bailey is a travel, space, and astrotourism writer. She founded Space Tourism Guide in 2017, and her first book Dark Skies: A Practic...
Episode 13: A Really Good Problem with Deep Anand
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Deep Anand is an astronomy lover and dark sky enthusiast. Deep has been working to spread awareness about light pollution, from his home base in Delhi...
Episode 12: Biology Rests on a Razor Blade with Dr. George Schaaf
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. George Schaaf is a veterinary pathologist working in the Comparative Medicine department at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Schaaf ...
Episode 11: The Shared Vulnerability of Darkness with Dajana Bjelajac
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dajana is a teaching assistant and PhD student at the Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management at the Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad, Se...
Episode 10: Dark Skies and Living Outside The Cage with Ryan Andreasen
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Andreasen is the founder of Night Sky Science (https://nightskyscience.com/). Astrophotography and Night Sky Preservation is Ryan’s main missio...
Episode 9: Restoring the Sacred with Mark Clipsham
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Clipsham - Architect, builder, consultant, master planner. While battling through his allergies, Mark has a thing or two to say about the growth ...
Episode 8: Dark Skies and Your Grandmother's Broccoli with Deborah Burnett
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah Burnett, ASID, AASM, is an internationally recognized registered design professional, Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the field of Light + Heal...
Episode 7: Awe Beyond Thought with Frank Turina PhD
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Check out Frank’s Night Sky Resource Center (www.nightskyresourcecenter.org) for some awesome astrophotography. Frank advocates seeing the night sky...
Episode 6: Selling Darkness - The Paradigm Shift with Jim Benya
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jim is one of the world’s top authorities on lighting design and applied illuminating engineering. He invented the BUG system that directly affects ...
Episode 5: Darkness is an Endangered Species, Dr. Joshua Rosenthal
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you have crappy sleep or like wearing sunglasses you should probably listen to this. Dr. Rosenthal talks about sleep apnea and electric blue light,...
Episode 4: Dr Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel is a Victim of Light Pollution
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Astrophysicist Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel has been involved in light pollution issues since the mid-1990s and has contributed to over 100 articles, ...
Episode 3: Into the Sublime with Harun Mehmedinovic
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Harun Mehmedinovic is an astrophotographer, speaker, documentary filmmaker and dark sky advocate. He finds his deepest connections to nature while loo...
Episode 2: Quality Light is Responsible Light, Ruskin Hartley
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ruskin Hartley, Executive Director of the International Dark Sky Association joins us to discuss his work and experiences in the association.Right now...
Episode 1: What it Means to Starve, Jane Slade and Michael Colligan
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After a successful run of special releases on Get a Grip on Lighting (https://getagriponlighting.com/) Jane Slade and Michael Colligan have launched a...