| October 8th, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
Stephen Leahy’s article (published by the Inter Press Service) on the “uncharted territory” of an ice-free arctic makes interesting reading. It’s not just a problem for the indigenous peoples of the circumpolar region. It’s not just a problem for polar bears, although they
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| September 23rd, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
Companies have ‘personhood,’ ie. a legal identity equivalent to people in the sense that they can enter into contracts and agreements (see Wikipedia article). This is a subject of considerable argument, and there are several campaigns to remove this status.
On the other
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| September 10th, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
Six years ago Professor John Schellnhuber (who had recently been appointed as Chief Government Adviser on Climate and Related Issues by the German Chancellor) talked at the RSA Art and Ecology Conference (2006) about the challenges in modelling the interactions between different critical points in global
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| September 6th, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
The New Scientist’s CultureLab blog ran a story, Bio-artists who tinker with tools of science, in early August on artists working with “the tools of science.” The article draws in particular on the work of SymbioticA. It doesn’t talk about Critical Art Ensemble or
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| September 5th, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
From the PLATFORM newsletter:
We’re looking to hire not one, but two positions. Please share this info with anyone who you think might be interested and help us find some really great people!
The deadline for both sets of applicants is 6.00pm Friday
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| August 25th, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
Scottish Natural Heritage publishes a guide to various funding sources for natural heritage projects – included are schemes that support on the ground action as well as communication and education. This guide covers EU, Public Sector, Lottery as well as Trusts and Foundations and can be
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| August 17th, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Cultura21
Creative Camp in Aizpute, Latvia. September 13-15, 2012
AppleThink is a collaboration between The Center for New Media CultureRIXC, Latvian Contemporary Arts Center and Serde from Latvia, as well as Pixelache Helsinki from Finland.
Apples are one of the most harvest-rich, yet under-exploited resources available in
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| August 4th, 2012 | Comments are closed
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Video Vortex #9, Re:assemblies of Video, is conceived and hosted by the Moving Image Lab and Post-Media Lab of the Innovation Incubator at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. The conference will be held from February 28 until March 2, 2013. The call for
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| August 3rd, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
I normally criticise environmentalists using financial numbers, but Bill McKibben’s argument in August’s Rolling Stone is based on really interesting numbers:
167 countries are signed up to the 2° target (keep the impact of climate change within this range).
565 gigatons is the amount of carbon
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| July 31st, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
This is the cover story in Brooklyn Rail…
On Henry Street just uptown from Foley Square in Manhattan, there is a church called Mariners’ Temple. One Sunday we were among hundreds of folks listening while Mother Henrietta Carter preached. She
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