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Request for Ecological Art Gallery Coordinator

Request for Ecological Art Gallery Curator / Coordinator

We are Requesting Submissions for an Ecological Art Curator for our annual Gallery at Topanga Earth Day

10th Annual Topanga Earth Day will take place on April 18th and 19th 2009 at the Topanga Community House Fair Grounds

Requirements:

*Experience and knowledge of Ecological Materials ( all

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USGBC Greenbuild News and LEED Update

If you’re in Boston right now, you might be at, or should check out Greenbuild, the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) annual conference. The USGBC was grown out of the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and are best known for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Standard.   :

From the

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Greenwashing Alert: Rose Brand Neo-Flex

I receive a lot of mail, electronic and other wise, that deals with the lighting industry. My personal artistic practice is heavily centered in the discipline of lighting design and it behooves me to keep up with what is happening in the industry.

Lighting design in theater is uses alot of resources. The

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What are you going to do with that?

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts has three things going against it. It 1) concerns the arts, 2) focuses on environmentalism and 3) is a non-profit. To the untrained eye, a group like this is doomed to fail. It is defined by three things often associated with bleeding hearts, off the wall hippies,

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Can Art Be Green?

Being conscious of the environment may be worthwhile, but what does it have to do with art? In a way, everything. According to Merriam-Webster, art can be defined as, “the conscious use of skill and creative imagination, especially in the production of aesthetic objects.” Based on this definition, art can be broken

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Obama Cites Michael Pollan’s Sun Food Agenda

by Jeff Nield

In a recent National Public Radio interview, Michael Pollan talks about how he was approached by a Democratic party staffer about his New York Times article, Farmer in Chief. The article is an open letter to the next president concerning U.S. agriculture policy. The staffer wanted Pollan’s consent to summarize the article

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Go Owls

The place where I learned my firsts about sustainability AND production in an artistic setting, Rice Univeristy, is building a new LEED certified residential Hall. While Duncan hall will never have the same history as the ol’ Will Rice College, I’m excited to see Rice on this path!

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Darwin and Havel

As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an

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Lights, Panels, Action!

While working at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, an outdoor theater in Los Angeles County with a regularly fantastic summer rep in a fantastic outdoor canyon setting, I met Kim Zanti. Amongst other titles, she is also a writer. This is an article she wrote for the Whole Life Times on [read more]

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