Tree Museum by Ilkka Halso

I make plans and construct visually buildings, which protect nature from threats of pollution and what is more important, from actions of man himself.I visualize shelters, massive buildings where big ecosystems could be stored as at present. These massive building protect forests, lakes and rivers from pollution and what is more important from actions of [...]

Design without Borders: Designing for Social Justice

Design without Borders is a non-profit program linking design skills to efforts for development and humanitarian aid.
Design without Borders is founded on the belief that design and designers can make a significant contribution towards a better and more sustainable society. The program aims at utilizing the creative and analytical skills of industrial designers to develop [...]

Artevist.com

Artevist is “the place for activism inspired graphic design, discussion and eco-friendlier T-shirts”.
From their website:
Artevist is for people who love T-shirts: wearing them, designing them, and talking about them. Most importantly, it’s a place for people who believe that T-shirts are a great way to communicate one’s views and in some very small, individual way, [...]

Nature and Art in San Diego

Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet is organized by the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), in partnership with the international conservation organization Rare.
This picture is of Xu Bing, an artist i particularly like. But here is some more information from [...]

Ecodesign is not a trend, it’s an industrial necessity

Rome based designer Marco Capellini has become a well-known name in the Latin ecodesign movement.
Creator of the organization Remade, which promotes design with recycled materials in seven countries; and Matrec, an online resource for recycled materials, Capellini was in Buenos Aires for a conference organized by the city’s Metropolitan Design Center.
After his presentation, he spoke with TreeHugger [...]

NYC’s Great White Way Is Going Green

NEW YORK (AP) — The Great White Way is going green.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg – with the help of green friends like ”Wicked” witch Elphaba — launched the ”Broadway Goes Green” initiative Tuesday that includes plans to use energy-saving bulbs and recycle stage sets.
The aim of the campaign is to reduce Broadway’s carbon footprint, a measure of greenhouse [...]

Call for Visual Artist/MacArthur Park

Call for Visual Artist/MacArthur Park
LA Commons, Mama’s Hot Tamales, CARECEN, and the Miguel Contreras Learning Center are collaborating on a unique project to engage an artist/designer to work with a Core Youth Arts Team (15-25 years old) to design an art installation on the West 7th Street in MacArthur Park.
The Role the Lead Artist/Designer in this project will be:

To participate [...]

Performing-arts groups are nervous about the future

From JUDITH EGERTON • JEGERTON@COURIER-JOURNAL.COM
Nervously awaiting the next act in the current economic crisis, arts leaders hope area residents will view the performing arts as a valuable way to escape the stresses of today’s world.
There is concern that the second half of the 2008-09 arts season could spell serious financial trouble for struggling arts groups if families and [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

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Sustentable ‘08: 11/28 until 12/2 at the Buenos Aires Botanical Garden

Original by Paula Alvarado, Buenos Aires on 11.26.08 for Treehugger
From November 28 until December 2 the Buenos Aires Botanical Garden will host Sustentable ‘08, the first edition of an annual festival entirely dedicated to sustainable design.
The event will present over 100 environmentally and socially responsible objects created by Argentinean designers, and will offer a set of conferences and workshops for [...]

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