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Welcome to Sound Pollution! Listen in as independent musicians share their inspirations, songwriting processes, and upcoming projects/shows. Sound Pollution is your home for open conversations, awesome music, and maybe even a little advice from trailblazers in the field.
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Join the Conversation on Light Pollution! Learn all about the issues surrounding light pollution, including everything from technical innovations to cultural resonance to ecological impacts to crime. Each month, Bill McGeeney keeps you up to date on the all the news around light pollution from the US and beyond!
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The podcast on plastic, people, and the planet by @anjakrieger. Plastics have become the basis for our modern lives, but they also pollute the planet. Will we be able to develop a healthy relationship with these materials we’ve created? Follow Anja on a journey into the world of synthetic polymers, their impacts on nature and ourselves, and the global quest to tackle plastic pollution. Each episode explores the issue from a different angle, featuring a diverse set of voices and viewpoints.
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---Repost of the 2020 episode, originally titled "The Discovery of Plastic Pollution"--- As we head into the final round of negotiations towards a global plastics treaty, it's important to remember how long it took for the international community to get here. While plastic pollution has only risen to attention in the past few years, the problem rea…
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Text Light Pollution News! This month, host Bill McGeeney is joined by Kevin Beare, whom you may know better as CapeMayAstro, Michael Rymer from Dark Sky makes a return visit, and the always insightful, Frank Turina of the Night Sky Resource Center joins us once again! See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this…
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Text Light Pollution News! [Editorial Correction: AST sent up the Blue Bird satellites incorrectly noted as Blue Walker satellites] This month, host Bill McGeeney is joined by Kevin Beare, whom you may know better as CapeMayAstro, Michael Rymer from Dark Sky makes a return visit, and the always insightful, Frank Turina of the Night Sky Resource Cen…
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Elena Berg is an environmental scientist and water sommelier. Her series „Something in the Water“ is a ten-part podcast mini-series on the fine water industry. As part of it, Elena addresses the elephant in the room: Plastic pollution. How much plastic is there in our drinking water? What’s the difference between tap and bottled water? And how conc…
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Text Light Pollution News! A lot to discuss this month! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by an expert panel featuring the astronomer and artist, Dr. Tyler Nordgren, photographer and Youtuber, Nico Carver, and, thought leader and CEO of Visibility Innovations, Nancy Clanton. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like thi…
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Welcome back to a fun episode of Sound Pollution, where we get to find out what Sound Animal has been upto this year. Hang out with us as we discuss the story behind recent releases, understanding your parents, upcoming plans, inspirations, money and greed, explaining Sound Animal's unconventional sound, still using a recorder, and crashing compute…
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On the way to the final round of negotiations towards the global plastics treaty, things are moving fast. And there's a major development on the road to Busan, something that could change everything. Ambassador Luis Vayas, the chair of the intergovernmental negotiating committee, made a move that could help the treaty text break free from all the b…
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Text Light Pollution News! A lot to discuss this month! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by an expert panel featuring the astronomer and artist, Dr. Tyler Nordgren, photographer and Youtuber, Nico Carver, and, thought leader and CEO of Visibility Innovations, Nancy Clanton. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like thi…
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The final meeting to negotiate the global plastics treaty is coming up this winter. But if you’ve listened to previous episodes of our series, you know that little progress had been made in the first three INCs. At the negotiations in Uruguay, France, and Kenya, strategic games were played. They held up the process and sabotaged the road to an ambi…
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Text Light Pollution News! A lot to discuss this month! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by an expert panel featuring the equitable conservationist, Shelana deSilva, lawyer and satellite researcher, Yana Yakushina, and, consultant, John Barentine. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a …
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Hey Ya'll Welcome back to Sound Pollution. In this episode Uncle Brent was unsupervised, and he does a fantastic job interviewing the 2023 CMA OF TEXAS Americana Artist of the Year, Trashy Annie! Hang out with them while they discuss touring, finding the right bandmates, new songs, co-writing, playing in Mexico, in depth discussion on 3 tracks, and…
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September 5, 2024, is Plastic Overshoot Day. The world has been able to handle its plastic waste until this day, but the waste produced the rest of the year statistically ends up as pollution. Imagine the huge pile of plastic packaging and other stuff that the world disposes of in just four months - that will end up in the environment, according to…
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Text Light Pollution News! A lot to discuss this month! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by an expert panel featuring the equitable conservationist, Shelana deSilva, lawyer and satellite researcher, Yana Yakushina, and, consultant, John Barentine. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a …
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by Betty Buckley who made this great film, the Stars at Night and by Leo Smith, who is now starting up a new Coalition to Reduce Light Pollution! See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Bill's Picks: 'Security' lights in…
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Hello listeners and welcome back to Sound Pollution. We have been making changes to the production of the show and our schedule. We appreciate the patience you-all have shown us as we find our new groove. In this episode we got to catch up with our friend Sir James of Masonic Block. For this episode we discuss Masonic Block's newest album, prolific…
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by Betty Buckley who made this great film, the Stars at Night and by Leo Smith, who is now starting up a new Coalition to Reduce Light Pollution! See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Bill's Picks: Will a former landfi…
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Text Light Pollution News! How can one county lead the charge against light pollution while balancing development and environmental preservation? Second District New Castle County, Delaware Councilmember Dee Durham joins host Bill McGeeney to discuss the successful passage of Lighting Ordinance 23-122, aimed at reducing light pollution through smar…
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by Ken Walczak of Dark Sky International, Lya Osborn of Light Justice, and the award winning landscape astrophotographer, Josh Dury. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Bill's Picks: Let there be Skyglow—light pollut…
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Hello listeners and welcome back to Sound Pollution. Raynelle has decided to make the rough starts and sound bites into a thing because no one is perfect, including us. In this episode we got the absolute joy of catching up with Corduroy Brown. We discuss the upcoming album, live sessions, band nicknames, new music, songwriting, 2024 plans and so m…
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by Ken Walczak of Dark Sky International, Lya Osborn of Light Justice, and the award winning landscape astrophotographer, Josh Dury. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Bill's Picks: Florida won't light bridges in ra…
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Welcome back to another Monthly Music Episode. We need your help. We NEED you to do whatever you can to help the show. If you like listening please subscribe, download, and give us a follow. If you have been on the show, please share the episode you have been on or give us a shout out. Our numbers need to turnaround. Also, give some love to the art…
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Hello Ya'll and welcome back to another fun filled episode of Sound Pollution. This week we get to release our 2024 interview with our friend Cherry Chub. Hang out with us as we have some wine, share a few laughs, find out what she has planned for 2024, listen to and discuss two new tracks, talk about her new album/EP for 2024, new and old gigs, an…
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Well, Sound Pollution is back from a break that went a little longer than planned due to some ongoing health issues. We really hope listeners and guests will be understanding as we roll out episodes later than we intended to. This week we catch up with Fernando Silverio Solis and learn what it's like to play a big show in a home town, 2024 gigs, ne…
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Happy World Environment Day! We’ve got a treat for you. There’s a new podcast series which is really great – and we wanted to share it with you. It’s called Forever Chemicals, and it’s produced by Meg Carney and team at Black-Footed Ferret Productions. Listen to the teaser here on Plastisphere and then head over to https://www.theoutdoorminimalist.…
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by David Smith of Buglife, lawyer and policy researcher, Yana Yakushina, and Dark Skies Officer for Cumbria, Jack Ellerby. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Bill's Picks: Why some animals become agitated during sol…
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Sirine Rached is the Global Plastics Policy Coordinator at GAIA, the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. In her message, Sirine shares why she doesn’t believe in certain technologies that are currently promoted to solve the plastics crisis. Read more on GAIA’s positions in the PlasticsTreaty talks here: no-burn.org/unea-plastics-treatySen…
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Hey guys welcome back to another fun episode of Sound Pollution. This week we get to catch up with our friend Josh of Starer (and other really cool groups) to see what 2024 holds for him. We will be discussing ESMA, his most recent trip to Egypt, music compilations, songwriting, shows, recording, and more then a few laughs. This is a longer episode…
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The penultimate session to negotiate the global plastics treaty ended just a few days ago in Ottawa, Canada. One of the journalists attending was Stephen Leahy, a science and environmental journalist who’s reported on climate and other issues for the past 30 years. Steve has written for dozens of publications including National Geographic, the Guar…
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by Shane Ludtke of the Actual Astronomy Podcast, Jeff Buler of the Aeroecology Lab at the University of Delaware, and Matthias Schmitt of Cedar Breaks National Monument. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Bill's Pic…
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It's Monday, April 29, 2024, and the INC4, the fourth round of negotiations for the plastics treaty, is in the final hours. Negotiators of countries from around the world are sitting in conference rooms in Ottawa, Canada, debating how to end plastic pollution. Around them, the presence of the fossil and chemical industries has grown significantly. …
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Round Rock Ric FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/roundrock.ric INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ricroundrock/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5GDN APPLE: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/round-rock-ric The Lizzard Kings FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/thelizzardkings/ SPOTIFY: https://o…
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In this episode we focus on one of the biggest countries in Asia - India. India just passed its Plastic Overshoot day on April 23. India is the world's third largest contributor to plastic waste after China and the United States – but it also has a huge population, 1.4 billion people. So per capita, Indians produce only small amounts of plastic was…
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A few weeks ago Sound Pollution lost a good friend of the show, a talented songwriter, and gifted singer, Eric Worley. We have struggled with how to tastfuly announce this news and pay tribute to a good friend. After some diliberation we decided to give the family some time to grieve privatly then re-release his origional interview with the show. T…
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In March 2024, negotiators and experts came together in Bellagio, Italy, for an exclusive meeting to discuss an essential topic: Plastic money. And we’re not talking about credit cards here, but the actual money we people around the world are paying for the production of plastics through our governments’ subsidies. Ronald Steenblik was the one who …
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Hey Ya'll, Sound Pollution Back again. This week we are coming at you with a very fun update from The Z-Man Experience. We are going to discuss his plans for the upcoming 2024 year, new music, songwriting, super heros, the stories behind a few songs, a bunch of laughs, and of course a touch of advice. We love having the Z-Man on the show, so do us …
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Welcome back to Sound Pollution, Raynelle has been playing catch up since getting covid at the end of 2023, so unfortunatly this is our first Music Only Episode of 2024. We will be dropping these monthly till the end of 2024. We here at Sound Pollution have been juggling allot with family, the show, life changes, and our own music. We really hope y…
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by Isa Mohammed of the Caribbean Institute of Astronomy, Frank Turina of the Night Sky Resource Center, and the Director of Dark Sky International's Engagement, Bettymaya Foott. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Bi…
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Welcome back to another fun filled episode of Sound Pollution. This week we got to catch up with some old friend of the show, The Lizzard kings. Hang out with us as we find out what all they have been up to since our last interview in 2021 Episode 29 We are going to discuss songwriting, working as a team, old guitars, new gigs, the stories behind 2…
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What happened at the INC-3 in Kenya? Recap 3/3.“If a credible majority of states can come together and adopt global rules to prevent plastic pollution, they can also do the similar things on climate change, on biological diversity, and indeed also other issues of environmental and global concern,” Magnus Løvold says. He was present as an observer a…
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What happened at the INC-2 in France? Recap 2/3.The negotiations for the global plastics treaty are haunted by major issues that have long stalled progress on other problems as well, like climate change and biodiversity loss. To understand what’s happening, Anja teamed up with Magnus Løvold, an expert in diplomacy and international law. Magnus was …
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Welcome back to another episode of Sound Pollution. Uncle Brent is back with us all this week and we get to touch base with him and His buddy Round Rock Ric. Ric is going to be discussing the 3rd South by Sam Bass in Texas, including but not limited to, the line-up and Meals on Wheels donation. He will also talk about what its like working with Unc…
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What happened at the INC-1 in Uruguay? Recap 1/3. This year, 2024, is the crucial year for the plastics treaty negotiations. If you haven’t heard about them, the United Nations are working on an international, legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution. It’s been called the most important environmental deal since the Paris climate accord. M…
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by storyteller Mary Stewart Adams, author of the new book - All Along the Night, Dani Robertson, and dark sky consultant, John Barentine. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Please be sure to check out Dani Robertson…
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You’ve probably heard of bioplastics, these new kinds of plastics that are marketed as environmentally friendly. If you’ve been following this show, you might know the episode from 2019 in which Anja tried to better understand this group of materials and the confusion around it. If you haven't listened, here it is: https://soundcloud.com/plastisphe…
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- A heads-up for all international listeners: This the first-ever episode in German. If you don't speak the language, don't despair. The next episode in English is already in the works! -This episode features an in-depth panel in German language on solutions to plastic pollution with experts in ecotoxicology, the reuse economy and politics, includi…
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Text Light Pollution News! 'Why It's So Bright at Night' is a periodic episode of Light Pollution News, where host Bill McGeeney sits down and chats to understand the positions of people who advocate for light. The show's intent is to spur conversation and understanding, helping all of us work together to a common unified goal of a better tomorrow …
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Welcome back to the Sound Pollution Podcast. Raynelle is interviewing solo again, as Brent is still not feeling well. In this interview we get to touch base with our good friend Brooks Of York and discuss his plans for the 2024 year. Brooks and Raynelle will be discussing writer's block, new albums, collaborations, the stories behind three awesome …
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Welcome back in 2024! We are so happy you are back listening to the Sound Pollution podcast. This is our first interview of the year and Raynelle is riding solo for this episode, but don't worry your Uncle Brent will be back with us soon. This week we touch base with Justin Grobbel who originally interviewed with us way back in episode 54 (https://…
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by freelance writer, Lauren Collee, astronomer, Tim Brothers, and film maker, Tara Roberts Zabriski. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Bill's Picks: It’s autumn everywhere except under this streetlight, Be Smart. T…
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Text Light Pollution News! Host Bill McGeeney is joined by AstroBackyard's Ashley Northcotte, lighting designer and founder of Dark Source, Kerem Asfuroglu, and educator and advocate, Diane Turnshek. See Full Show Notes, Lighting Tips and more at LightPollutionNews.com. Like this episode, share it with a friend! Bill's Picks: God’s Promises Are Cle…
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