| October 5th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
A pdf of Culture and Climate Change: Recordings is now available.
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“ashdenizen blog and twitter are consistently among the best sources for information and reflection
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| September 14th, 2011 | Comments are closed
Shiants – watercolor by John Cumming
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Kellie Gutman writes: The artist, sculptor and writer John Cummingtook part in the fourth and final week of Cape Farewell’s expedition to the Shetland Islands this summer. John was born and raised in
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| August 25th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
One of the winners of the 2010 Tipping Point commissions, 3rd Ring Out (which we blogged here and here) has now opened at the Grassmarket in Edinburgh. Its director Zoë Svendsen says:
We’ve now got a ‘strategy’ cell as well as
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| August 16th, 2011 | Comments are closed 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
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| August 13th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from 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
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| August 7th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
When we asked Hester Reeve, artist and lecturer, to suggest a metaphor for our series New metaphors for sustainability, she offered to make this DVD, “Come into my house.”
The term ‘sustainability’ is rightly used first and foremost in the contexts of both local
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| August 3rd, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
In a recent series of seminars on site-based performance and environmental change, our Ashden Directory co-editor Wallace Heim met Alison Parfitt, of the Wildland Research Institute, and writer on conservation. Here, Alison considers her sweet pea as a metaphor
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| August 1st, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Cape Farewell known for its seafaring expeditions to the Arctic to study climate change, with scientists and artists aboard, is taking a journey closer to home.Kellie Gutman reports on Cape Farewell’s latest voyage.
For four weeks starting July 15, a rotating crew of thirty-two
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| July 26th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
We continue our series of New metaphors for sustainability with the sailboat, suggested by James Marriott, artist, activist, member of PLATFORM.
The boat for me is a very powerful metaphor. Sustainability is a rather grey and unclear term, but
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| July 25th, 2011 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Ella-Marie Fowler got in touch about her BA project on sustainability, and here she describes it.
I’m a graduating student from Design for Performance (BA Hons) at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. For my final project, I chose to
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Welcome to the CSPA Quarterly 7 is now available
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