| December 21st, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
Linda Weintraub has produced an excellent series of books on arts and ecology – they are toolkits and learning resources suitable for people who want to know more or engage groups in arts and ecology.
The most recent just published by the University of California Press
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| May 24th, 2012 | Comments are closed
Sustainability in Theater: People, Planet, Profit, Purpose
A blended conference dedicated to providing tangible, practical strategies to implementing greener theater practices, ensuring theaters remain a vital part of our community.
Day One (WEBCASTED LIVE): Learn
A full day of learning and networking, featuring sustainability experts, sustainability in theater pioneers
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| April 29th, 2012 | Comments are closed We’ve been talking about it for a couple of months, but it’s here! Tomorrow, Monday, April 30th, 2012 and the next day, Tuesday, May 1st, 2012, the Minnesota Theater Alliance, in partnership with The CSPA and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) will be hosting Sustainability
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| February 13th, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Cultura21
Within the framework of the Citizen Art Days Shelley Sacks offers twice a day the possibility to take part in an Earth Forum „Social Sculpture“ Process at the Freies Museum_öffentlicher Raum Berlin. From February 20th to 24th, in each case
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| February 4th, 2012 | Comments are closed Arcola Energy is a member of Project Dirt ; London’s largest and most active green network. It’s a social network of people / organisations doing tangible green projects. The London Sustainable Schools Forum is a group trying to make London’s schools more sustainable places. We’re really excited that Arcola Energy for Schools has
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| December 22nd, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Wallace Heim writes:
When we’ve asked people to think of a metaphor, we tried to present the idea of ‘sustainability’ in neither a positive nor a negative light, but to leave it as open as possible for people to interpret it in their own way.
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| November 18th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Wallace Heim writes:
We began thinking about metaphor and sustainability when we noticed that there weren’t any strong or imaginative metaphors for the concept, or ones that we could easily use in conversation. Metaphors are pervasive in human thought and communication. ‘Sustainability’ stood out as
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| July 21st, 2011 | Comments are closed From the ‘iron curtain’ to the ‘glass ceiling’, metaphors are one of the most powerful ways in which we frame the way we think. Yet one of the key concepts in environmentalism – sustainability – seems to be remarkably short of vivid metaphors.
So we asked some artists, writers,
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| July 5th, 2011 | Comments are closed
This post comes to you from Cultura21
On June 16th, Cultura21 – together with partners – invited panelists with broad experience and knowledge concerning the art sector and the human rights situation in China for a discussion around the arrest of Ai Weiwei. The event was attended by more than a hundred
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| June 6th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
The Waterfootprint.org website is a resource on direct and indirect water use:
People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc. The water footprint is an indicator of water
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New Metaphors for Sustainability from the Ashden Directory
From the ‘iron curtain’ to the ‘glass ceiling’, metaphors are one of the most powerful ways in which we frame the way we think. Yet one of the key concepts in environmentalism – sustainability – seems to be remarkably short of vivid metaphors.
So we asked some artists, writers,
[read more]
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