How literature is getting to grips with climate change

Robert Butler of the Ashden Directory notes William Sidelsky’s review of the Oxfam-produced short-story collection Ox-tales: Air, Water, Fire and Earth in yesterday’s Observer. The review recognises that climate change is becoming a something recurring theme for modern writers:

A masterclass in this respect is offered by Helen Simpson’s “The … Go to

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The Publicity Plant

Amsterdam-based artist and grad student Sander Veenhof has come up with an interactive and innovative way to spread the word on his name: A plant where the light only switches on when someone blogs, twitters or does a google search for his name. The project is an attempt to grow a “graduation bouquet” of flowers

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Iran: a different green revolution

Today is another knife-edge day for Iranians, a battle of will between the authorities and the reformistsn. Bloggers like Revolutionary Road report rumours of killings and mass detentions. Those who proudly talk of bringing democracy to Iraq should remember how the invasion fuelled conservatism in Iran, turning the country in … Go to

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In Transition: new movie online tomorrow

The Transition network, promoting the Transition Town movement, is the latest green lobbying group to make a movie. They’re previewing online for two days only to create a buzz around it so they can shoot for cinema distribution. The url at which you can see the film will be unveiled … Go to

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Earth Matters On Stage: Wrap-Up

It’s been more than a week since the final days of this year’s Earth Matters On Stage EcoDrama Symposium. I returned from Oregon to be immediately eaten alive by my other life: just coming up for air now and able to digest some of

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Artist walking…

Bram Thomas Arnold is walking from Devon, to his family home of Galen in Switzerland, 598 miles away as a piece of work for his finals MA show at Dartington College of Art. Follow his sporadic blog at http://bramthomasarnold.wordpress.com/ Go to RSA Arts & Ecology

COP15 petition to heads of government

To UNFCCC leaders / Heads of Government,

At the UNFCCC talks in Copenhagen in 2009, we urge you to reach a just and sufficient international agreement on climate change, which will secure our futures and those of generations to come. The agreement should recognise that rich countries have done the … Go to

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Perpetual Motion 2009

Here’s a nice video by artist David Prince. A dead tree is turned into a super-awesome perpetual motion machine!

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Pioneering Future Figures: The Harrisons

In the eco-art world there are few folks as significant as the collaborative duo of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison (known generally as The Harrisons). Originators of a whole systems perspective in the eco-art movement, they have worked for the past four decades with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners and other artists

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APInews: MIT Donates Its Armadillo to Side Street Projects

MIT’s Visual Arts Program donates its Armadillo trailer to Pasadena’s Side Street Projects in an upcoming ceremony at Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston. The handover event is June 18. The Armadillo trailer is the result of a year-long collaborative art project, the MIT FEMA Trailer Project, in which faculty and students transformed a surplus

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