This episode's guests:

• Shweta Kulkarni, AstronEra.
• Josh Dury, Award Winning Photographer.
• Jim Webster, Advocate.

Bill's News Picks:

• Explore NASA’s most detailed map of the night sky yet, Andrew Paul, Popular Science. 
• Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy, Nature. 
• Minimizing aviation lighting duration reduces bat attraction to wind turbines, Journal of Applied Ecology. 
• Tawny owls are turning to street lighting to help them hunt, British Ecological Society. 
• Impact of artificial light at night on obesity and overweight: a systematic review and meta-analysis, BMC Public Health. 

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Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.

 This episode's guests:

• Shweta Kulkarni, AstronEra.
• Josh Dury, Award Winning Photographer.
• Jim Webster, Advocate.

Bill's News Picks:

• DarkSky One supercar lurks in the dark like a ninja with its sensible lighting, Gaurav Sood, Yanko Design. 
• Colored light changes how music makes us feel, Eric Ralls, Earth.com. 
• Bright needs, dark desires: Public preferences and balancing the benefits of artificial light and natural darkness at night in Aotearoa New Zealand, People and Nature. 
• Illuminating Inequality: Public Lighting Energy Consumption and Light Pollution in Urban and Rural Contexts, Chemical Engineering Transactions. 
• Evaluation of Urban Nighttime Light Environment Safety Using Integrated Remote Sensing and Perception Modeling, Remote Sensing 

 

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Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.

  This episode's guests:

• Randy Nelson, PhD, Circadian Rhythm Researcher.
• Scott Lind, Electrical Engineer, CEO Redshift Lighting.
• Rushil Kukreja, Founder of Princia.

Bill's News Picks:

• Space Modernization for the 21st Century NPRM, FCC. 
• Palo Alto approves dark sky ordinance, sets earlier curfew, Riley Cooke, Palo Alto Online. 
• Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism, Nature. 
• Midnight darkness and evening melatonin pre-treatment reverse night-light-induced neurobehavioural disruptions in a diurnal corvid, Scientific Reports. 
• The night feels different when you’re out there', Dr. Jon Sutton, The British Psychological Society.

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Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.

  This episode's guests:

• Randy Nelson, PhD, Circadian Rhythm Researcher.
• Scott Lind, Electrical Engineer, CEO Redshift Lighting.
• Rushil Kukreja, Founder of Princia.

Bill's News Picks:

• New York’s Skyline Has a Bold New Look, Nicholas Mancall-Bitel, New York Times.
• Switching off public lighting: a study on local authority practices, Samuel Busson, Cerema.
• Exposure to more artificial light at night may raise heart disease risk, American Heart Association. 
• ‘My Neighbor’s Christmas Lights Shine into My Bedroom, What Should I Do?, Philadelphia Inquirer. 
• Reaffirming sensory ethnography: sensing regenerative tourist practices in dark-sky protected zones, Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 

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Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.

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Happy Holidays friends! It's our annual Holiday Potluck show! This is the show where guests return to discuss their favorite stories of 2025! 

We welcome back to the show:

• John Barentine, Dark Sky Consulting
• Yana Yakushina, Lawyer
• Dr. Mario Motta (absentia)
• Michael Calhoun
• Steve Mariconda
• Patrick Sommer

 Article List: 

1. Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights, Nature Cities.
2. Personal night light exposure predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases in >88,000 individuals, Jama Network.
3. Light Pollution as Antichrist, Columba Silva, The Imaginative Conservative.
4. Federation Chamber | 24/11/2025, Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal.
5. Lincoln City Hopes to Become First on Oregon Coast Designated Dark Sky Community, Oregon Coast Beach Connection.
6. Adirondack residents work to preserve dark skies, Holly Riddle, Adirondack Explorer.
7. Hopewell Neighbors Work Together for Darker Skies, Carolyn Jones, Mercer Me.
8. Dark Sky Week deemed dangerous, fails in North Dakota Senate, Jeff Beach, North Dakota Monitor.

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The path to sustainable starry night solutions begin with being a more informed you.

Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.

 This episode's guests:

• Dr. Amardeep Dugar, Lighting Designer.
• Dani Robertson, Author / Dark Sky Officer.
• Stephane Picard, CEO of Cliff Valley Astronomy.

Bill's News Picks:

• Remote Welsh island with population of three people searching for new tenant family, BBC News. 
• Headlight complaints abound, but glare-related crashes haven’t increased, Joe Young, IIHS. 
• Spatio-Temporal Variation in Aerial Arthropod AbundanceRevealed by Weather Radars, Global Change Biology. 
• Nocturnal flight call monitoring reveals in-flight behavioral alteration by avian migrants in response to artificial light at night, Biological Conservation. 
• The Space Mirror Mirage: Physics, Economics, and the Glow of Investor Illusion, Charles Rotter, WattsUpWithThat.

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The path to sustainable starry night solutions begin with being a more informed you.

Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.

 This episode's guests:

• Dr. Amardeep Dugar, Lighting Designer.
• Dani Robertson, Author / Dark Sky Officer.
• Stephane Picard, CEO of Cliff Valley Astronomy.

Bill's News Picks:

• Ikea just made a mini bed for your phone, Grace Snelling, Fast Company. 
• Individual-Level Exposure to Light at Night and Sleep Health: A Comparison between Real-Time Mobility-Based Measurements and Indoor Residence-Based Measurements, Environmental Science & Technology. 
• We’ve Lit Our Way Into a Complex Problem, Inside Lighting. 
• In the dark: Streetlight fight divides Florida neighborhood, Susannah Bryan, Tampa Bay Times. 
• Artificial outdoor light at night and depression in older adults in the USA, England, Northern Ireland, and Ireland, Environment International. 

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• Receive quarterly invite to join as live audience member for recordings with special Q&A session post recording with guests.
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About Light Pollution News:

The path to sustainable starry night solutions begin with being a more informed you.

Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.

This episode's guests:

• Tatsiana Thomson, Brome Bird Care.
• John Barentine, Dark Sky Consulting.
• Lynne Peeples, Author of the Inner Clock.

Bill's News Picks:

• Environmental Commission applauds progress on bird-safe buildings, Amy Smith, Austin Monitor. 
• Great River Bridge goes dark for birds, Hawk Eye.
• Puffins, petrels, and places: Understanding human perceptions to prevent seabird mortality due to light pollution, Ornithological Applications.
• Light does not phase shift the circadian clock of subcutaneous adipose tissue in vitro, Biological Timing and Sleep. 
• Brighter bedroom light at night predicts risk for earlier pubertal onset: a two-year longitudinal study, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 

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About Light Pollution News:

The path to sustainable starry night solutions begin with being a more informed you.

Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.

 This episode's guests:

• Tatsiana Thomson, Brome Bird Care.
• John Barentine, Dark Sky Consulting.
• Lynne Peeples, Author of the Inner Clock.

Bill's News Picks:

• Spectacular drone show over Vatican recreates Michelangelo’s ‘Creation of Adam,’ Virgin Mary, Ariel Zilber, New York Post.
• As more cities get Dark Sky label, these Indigenous communities apply the same tenets, Mark Brodie, KJZZ-FM.
• The First Dark Sky Map of Thailand: International Comparisons and Factors Affecting the Rate of Change, PrePrints.org.
• Our night skies are worth fighting for: petition for national action, Mandy Ellis, Western Plains App. 
• Why Sleep Tourism Is The Trend We’ve Been Dreaming About, Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes. 

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Why Support Light Pollution News?

• Receive quarterly invite to join as live audience member for recordings with special Q&A session post recording with guests.
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About Light Pollution News:

The path to sustainable starry night solutions begin with being a more informed you.

Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.

 This episode's guests:

• Yana Yakushina, Lawyer and Researcher.
• James Lowenthal, Astronomer.
• Vicky Derksen, Night Sky Tourist.

Bill's News Picks:

• Randomised trial reveals a mismatch between preferences for and hormonal responses to anthropogenic light colour temperatures, PLOS One. 
• Light Wavelength Modulates the Effects of Lighted Nights on Sleep, Metabolism and Oxidative Stress in Female Zebra Finches, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology. 
• The Great New Zealand Road Trip: ‘You New Zealanders take your stars for granted’ - the striking words of a tourist that helped turn this Kiwi region dark, Shayne Currie, The New Zealand Herald. 
• This Chappell Roan song boosted interest in a Canadian dark sky preserve by 1,800%, Elizabeth Howell, Space.com. 
• Inside New Brunswick's ambitious plan for the world's densest dark-sky corridor, Jamie Carter, Space.com. 

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About Light Pollution News:

The path to sustainable starry night solutions begin with being a more informed you.

Light Pollution, once thought to be solely detrimental to astronomers, has proven to be an impactful issue across many disciplines of society including ecology, crime, technology, health, and much more!

But not all is lost! There are simple solutions that provide for big impacts. Each month, Bill McGeeney, is joined by upwards of three guests to help you grow your awareness and understanding of both the challenges and the road to recovering our disappearing nighttime ecosystem.