Ruskin Hartley, Executive Director of the International Dark Sky Association joins us to discuss his work and experiences in the association.
Right now the IDA is working to grow beyond their roots in amateur astronomers in several directors. The group is forging partnerships with other bodies with an interest in lighting to further their goals, looking at the input of ecologists and medical experts, broadening the ethnic and gender diversity within the organisation, working with designers to understand how to light outside with quality and responsibility in mind, and reaching out to regulators to keep the sky dark and the parts of the ground lit appropriately.
Beyond the organization he talks about how we have the tools at hand to improve light at night through controls, teaching everyone about what they’re missing in a post-LED boom world and his own personal encounters with the value of a night sky.
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After a successful run of special releases on Get a Grip on Lighting, Jane Slade and Michael Colligan have launched a new podcast series about dark sky. Jane has been writing and speaking about the need for darkness in design for almost exactly five years and Michael has been trying to break into the movement from the distribution side for the past two. This conversation between the two gets into their histories with the movement, what they believe and how this will inform the new series. Adding more and bluer light to nights around the world has had numerous unforeseen side effects in wildlife, human health, aesthetics, and other deeper dimensions. We need to confront this problem we’ve been neglecting, this series will be our part.
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Revisit our other dark sky conversations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsdHE2gsiCv4Q_Wjc1BNpAvvc68KPCXRe
This special release of our series features Diane Knutson, a regional dark sky advocate / business owner turned Dark Sky International Board President. In this episode Greg Ehrich and Michael attempt to disentangle the need for jargon as a sales gimmick and the hurdle of hurdles jargon puts in the way of advocates and educators. Whether we end up calling what we do Night Sky Protection, Night Time Restoration or just Flipping the Switch the value of darkness at night continues to be there for the world to rediscover.
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