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Light pollution: time to flick the switch

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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The Implications of Man-Made Illuminations

Ruskin Hartley is the executive director of Dark Sky International. He has worked in conservation for 25 years working on restoring ancient forests trying to remove plastics from the ocean. His organization believes that the solution to light pollution actually comes from better quality lighting. It's not about turning off all the lights and plunging us into medieval darkness as some people like to say but it is thinking about natural darkness as a precious resource.

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