Shell accused of fuelling violence in Nigeria

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PLATFORM continue to focus on the issues of corporate responsibility for oil conflict in the Niger Delta through their project Remember Saro-Wiwa. The Guardian‘s extensive story on a new report by

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BLDGBLOG: Tar Creek Supergrid

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BLDGBLOG’s most recent post relates to a PhD focusing on re-purposing abandoned mines as renewable energy infrastructure.

ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy

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Wasteland Twinning

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Glengarnock on a road trip, 2004

Wasteland and stalled spaces are important. This new project connects wasteland in different places as well as offering some suggestions for ways to explore those on your doorstep – join in and

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The Three Gorges, 3rd Edition « Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen

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The Three Gorges, 3rd Edition « Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen.

Sonja Hinrichsen makes ephemeral works of great beauty. These include walking in snow to create patterns.

Sonja Hinrichsen, Snow Drawings, Chatham, NY, 2011

 

These are reminiscent of neolithic marks on stones near

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Natural Rights

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Philosophically speaking ‘natural rights‘ is an element of an argument about the basis of the rights that individuals have in society.

What if nature had rights? What if there was a Ministry of Mother Earth? What if the experiences of

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Top 5 reasons why tar sands cover-up “ethicaloil.org” is a seriously dirty trick | Platform

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Top 5 reasons why tar sands cover-up “ethicaloil.org” is a seriously dirty trick | Platform.

Thanks to Suzaan Boettger for drawing attention to PLATFORM’s rebuttal of the “ethicaloil.com” website. “ethicaloil.com” is a web site that purports to demonstrate that tar sands are

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Animal Ecologies in Visual Culture

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Antennae, the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, and Minding Animals International, a ‘bridge between academia and advocacy,’ are hosting an event entitled Animal Ecologies in Visual Culture at University College London on Saturday 8 October

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Jeanette Ingberman RIP

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Exit Art in New York is one of the alternative spaces that regularly programmes eco-art. Sadly Jeanette Ingberman who co-founded the Gallery died recently. She was a great advocate for ways in which the arts could draw attention and propose alternatives. [read more]

IHDP Writing Contest: Win a prize and be published!

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Contest for new writing on the green economy, deadline 15 September

The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (otherwise known as IHDP), which is part of the United Nations University, has announced a competition for new short essays

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Videos of key thinkers on sustainability

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Who’s written the top books on sustainability? Capra, Lovelock, Pearce, Barbier, Yunus? Cambridge University Press has put online videos of interviews with authors and thinkers featured in their

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