| August 16th, 2011 | This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Carolyn Steel calls herself a ‘food urbanist’, and she brings a notion of the ‘good life’ to our series of New metaphors for sustainability.
What is it we’re trying to sustain? For me, the meal is the emblematic, wonderful situation that sums up the whole point
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| March 9th, 2011 | This post comes to you from the EcoMuseum
An exhibition, Identity: yours mine ours will launch in March 2011 at Museum Victoria‘s Immigration Museum, and is re-imagining the benchmarks of environmental sustainability in the cultural sector.
After over 2 years of development, in November 2010 construction work finally began
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| November 30th, 2010 |
wearable architecture, 2010
electronics, custom software, microphone, fresh sod
A sensorial wearable device forcing to smell grass and to hear your own breath. Equipped with fresh sod and headphones, this mask inhibit the visual system while enhancing the olfactory by the proximity with soil. The device defines also a sensory territory constructed by
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| September 30th, 2010 | Devil’s Tower has officially become an LA Monument, at least for a little while, until the clay dries in the exhibition of Matthias Merkel Hess‘ new work, which comes down on October 2nd at Las Cienegas Projects. The notion of recreating an iconic natural wonder (the original
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| August 30th, 2009 | This quote from Olafur Eliasson put me in mind of the New York Waterpod project I mentioned last week. “Water,” says Olafur Eliasson in the excellent TED Talk
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| August 7th, 2009 |
This is A.T.R.E.E.M (Automated Tree-Rental for Emission Encaging Machine) by Nitipak Samsen, a student at the Design Interactions course at the RCA in London. Samsen’s artwork
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| July 17th, 2009 | Transition Town innovator Rob Hopkins noted that Ed Miliband used the notion of “transition towns” a lynchpin concept in the launch of his White Paper on Energy and Climate Change Policy. Determined to discover whether his movement
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| July 13th, 2009 |
There have been some blips and blurps over the past few weeks on the greenmuseum blog as we settle into this new, fancy-pants version of WordPress. It didn’t like our old theme. So we changed to this one. It’s Green. To mark the occasion, here’s a link to an excellent
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| April 12th, 2009 | {California Map Project, 1969, by John Baldessari}
Somehow I missed learning about this piece until just recently, but it’s my new favorite work of “land art.” In 1969, John Baldessari took the map of California (lower right) and then went to each place on the map where the map letters spelling ‘California’ would be
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| March 22nd, 2009 | I’m stealing this post wholesale from Jamie Young’s RSA Design & Behaviour blog. Let’s call it recycling:
Last year I read a report published by the IPPR that made me think. It was called Warm Words, and analysed the language and discourses used in the media and campaigns to talk about climate
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Welcome to the CSPA Quarterly 7 is now available
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Sustainability in Theater
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