On this episode we discuss 'In Search of Blue Sky', a temporary public artwork and collaboration that uses air quality data to connect the community and UTA riders to help pave the way for better air.
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Ty Defoe with indigenous arts collective All My Relations performs GIZHIBAA GIIZHIG | Revolving Sky, an immersive theater production that is being developed as part of the Cairns Artist Residency.
Light pollution may not be the most pressing environmental issue at the moment, but it is one that comes with serious health, ecological and economic consequences. That’s according to Daniel Mendoza, a researcher and professor who runs the University of Utah’s Dark Skies minor.
Mendoza said too much artificial light can affect migrating birds and insect species. They use the moon and stars to navigate at night, but light from major metropolitan areas can disorient them, cause them to drift off course and sometimes die.