Dark Sky Conversations

In this episode, Marnie Ogg interviews Chris Tugwell, a South Australian man based in Adelaide who is a film writer, land care worker, and a Dark Sky entrepreneur. Chris shares his passion for making things happen, and how he transformed a small patch of private land on the Murray River into Australia's first Dark Sky Reserve. Through his connections with local government, tourism providers, and the general community, Chris expanded the area and made it a top tourist destination. Marnie and Chris discuss the importance of conservation efforts and how we can all be inspired to create more Dark Sky spaces. This interview is presented as part of International Dark Sky Week 2023. For more details and resources for International Dark Sky Week, please visit https://www.darksky.org Email Marnie: - [email protected] Marnie Ogg talks with some of the brightest minds about light pollution and ways to protect our night skies. For more details, visit the Dark Sky website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast Subscribe, rate and review at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and all good podcast apps. Stream on demand from https://www.bitesz.com/show/dark-sky-conversations/ For more podcasts visit our HQ at https://bitesz.com
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Dark Sky Conversations with Marnie Ogg
S02E03
Satellite Hunting | March 2021
How to use this podcast:
1.Plug your headphones in
2.Make sure it is a clear night...if so...head outside to a quiet spot with a clear view of the night sky.
3.Look up
4.Hit play and let Marnie show you how to find satellites in the night sky..
5.Enjoy!
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Dark Sky Conversations with Marnie Ogg
S02E02
Your Night Sky Guide | February 2021
How to use this podcast:
1. Plug your headphones in
2. Make sure it is a clear night...if so...head outside to a quiet spot with a clear view of the night sky.
3. Look up
4. Hit play and let Marnie guide you through what you are seeing.
5. Enjoy!
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My guest today, Ada Blair - a counsellor and psychotherapist at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of ‘An Exploration of the Role that the Night Sky Plays in the lives of the Dark Sky Island Community of Sark’, her research, conducted on Sark in 2014, addresses the 'missing sky' factor within ecopsychology and health and environmental psychology. Intuitive inquiry is employed to explore the following themes: human desire to see the night sky, commercialisation of this desire through astronomical tourism, the nature of nature, fear of the dark, and nature and wellbeing.
Research findings show skywatching facilitating family/community connections and improving wellbeing, the transmission of sky stories, childhood sky memories, a fearlessness of the dark and the phenomenon on moonless nights of an absent horizon, whereby sky and land appear as one.
For more, visit:
An Exploration of the Role that the Night Sky Plays in the Lives of the Dark Sky Island Community of Sark
Sark in the Dark
Marnie Ogg is talking to some of the brightest minds in their field, about the topic of light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.
For more information about the Unihedron range, visit their website at http://unihedron.com/
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Dark Sky Conversations
S03E06 Jackson Stigwood – Lighting Designer
Jackson Stigwood
BDes, MArch, Tech IES, Assoc. IALD
Jackson is the founding director of A Billion Suns. He moved into lighting architecture and design in 2008, working on a range of projects in Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He takes a keen interest in conducting lighting research at both macro and micro scales in the built and urban environment. The practice uses this research to understand key issues that need to be addressed as well as highlighting design opportunities for future development.
Since 2015 Jackson has been an active member and coordinator of the Victorian chapter of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD). In 2019 he began the podcast series Light, Cities and Architecture, as a platform to provide lighting education to the community whilst raising awareness of the lighting design profession. In 2020 he launched the Cri Awards, a publicly funded initiative which seeks to highlight, design, and implement positive community change to awfully lit environments within our cities. He firmly believes that whilst we push the design boundaries at the top of the lighting industry, we must also be consciously aware and making improvements to the bottom line within our cities.
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YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHT4dzN4yOIhaTa2916MH9Q
Marnie Ogg talks with some of the brightest minds about light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.
For more details, visit the Dark Sky website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast
Subscribe, rate and review at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or all good podcast apps.
Stream on demand from https://www.bitesz.com/show/dark-sky-conversations/
For more podcasts visit our HQ: https://bitesz.com