We need hope through art

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I posted this to comment Facebook yesterday, and wanted to connect it to Alastair McIntosh’s piece in the Guardian on Saturday,

I was in Glorious Govan yesterday for Alastair McIntosh‘s Kandinsky and Spirituality event. What a difficult subject to

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New Metaphors for Sustainability: A matter of time

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Nick Robins’ metaphor suggests a profound shift in our perceptions of time. Nick works in the policy, operational and financial dimensions of corporate accountability and sustainability. He is author of The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped

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100 posts on art and ecology resource site grows alongside a slow art-forest project

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Museum of Nature, 2004 by photographer Ilkka Halso

This is my 100th post on my art & ecology notebook site – amazing! I’m as

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New metaphors for sustainability: the Kelo

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We resume our series finding new metaphors for sustainability with the Kelo suggested by artist and researcher Amanda Thomson

For a few years now I have been spending a lot of time in some of the remnant Caledonia pine forests of Scotland, learning

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“MIT japan 3/11 initiative”

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By Benjamin Smith

November 14th, 2011 MIT (USA)

“In the aftermath of the disaster suffered in Japan, MIT launched the MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative, a multi-year collaborative project focused on disaster-resilient planning, design and reconstruction. Back from the first MIT Japan 3/11 workshop which took place

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Ploughshares from Swords – Social Sculpture and Cultural Agency

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November 07th, 2011 MIT (USA)

“How does creative activism contribute to society? How do we moderate crises through individual and collective art practice? How do we reconcile the arts, activism, and pedagogy? Stella McGregor, Founder and Director of Urbano Project, will share her experience of working with inner

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New fables for the woods

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Why does the ash tree have black buds? Why does the yew tree live so long? Why does the chestnut tree have white candles? In a series of new fables about woods, 19 writers started with a question of this sort and found their way to

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Freshkills Park: A new beginning

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For the last two years Freshkills Park has invited the public to come take a “sneak peak” full day tour of the transformation that has been taking place over the last ten years at the largest landfill site in the world. On Sunday, October

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Leuphana Sustainability Summit – Call for Papers

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29th February – 2nd March 2012 – Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany

The conference focuses on three leading questions:

1. What insights about the role of transdisciplinarity for sustainability transitions have we gained over the last 10 years?

2. What gaps in research still remain?

3. How can

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COAL Prize 2012 – Rural

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Call for entries – Open to January 15th 2012

The COAL PRIZE Art&Environment reward each year a project about the environment by a contemporary artist. The winner is chosen by a jury of personalities from the worlds of contemporary art, research, ecology and

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