| August 12th, 2011 | Comments are closed The deadline for Round Two of CSPA Supports has been extended to October 1. The CSPA Supports grant program is designed to support the projects of our members as they consider issues of sustainability (ecological, economic, or cultural) in their professional work. Artists from all genres are encouraged to apply, and international applications are accepted!
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| August 9th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Zoë Svendsen, theatre director and researcher, continues our series New metaphors for sustainability by turning to ‘symbiosis’ as a better term.
When I was given the challenge of thinking about a metaphor for sustainability, I realized I didn’t really know what
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| August 6th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland
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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| July 29th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Cultura21
Cultura21 e.V. is happy to announce the first „Cultura21 Forum“ in Germany:
The Cultivation of Ecology/-ies: gardens and complexity in rural and urban areas
September 23rd to 25th, 2011 – “Studio Kunst und Landschaft” in Hude (aprox. 13 km from Oldenburg)
Registration is
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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, architects, cultural commentators, environmentalists,
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| April 30th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Cultura21
Exhibition until July 3rd; Symposium on May 6th and 7th
The images of the exhibition Edward Burtynsky: Oil explore the hotly-debated effects of oil extraction and our international dependency on the substance. The symposium in May brings together top scientific and arts industry experts
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| April 30th, 2011 | Comments are closed http://vimeo.com/22257322
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By Another Name: New Metaphors for Sustainability from Wallace Heim on Vimeo.
To launch the Ashden Directory and Ashdenizen’s major new project on metaphors for sustainability, a new DVD was just released, devised and directed by Wallace Heim.
“Sustainability
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| April 5th, 2011 | Comments are closed This two week workshop:
provides an opportunity to explore the many different ways and levels on which we can be or become better `agents of change´ and how we can deepen our understanding of ecological citizenship provides a form for exploring the importance of imagination in transformative work enables participants to develop forms of creative
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| February 26th, 2011 | Comments are closed Sustainability embodies many facets; entwined in the common strands of energy and water efficiency and cutting carbon emissions sits food. As a nation a lot of the food we consume is non-seasonal and has to be imported. This has a tremendous impact on the environment through transportation pollution from increased food miles. We could easily
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| February 20th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Cultura21
The Cultura21 eBooks Series on Culture and Sustainability presents findings from inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives in research and practice. The eBooks are published openly online by Cultura21 Institut e.V. in order to support broad dissemination and to stimulate further debates in civil
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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, architects, cultural commentators, environmentalists,
[read more]
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