The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) is organizing an international conference on the theme of “The Future of Consumerism and Well-being in a World of Ecological Constraints” on June 12-14, 2013, at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. The conference seeks: To improve our understanding of the complex driving forces underlying prevalent consumerist… Continue reading Call for Proposals – SCORAI
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Borders Network: Creative Environments
This blog was created recently, with support of the Creative Arts Business Network to support an informal network for artists, designers, makers in the Scottish Borders concerned with ecology, environment and sustainability; sharing their upcoming and ongoing projects with other people interested in sustainability and eco-art. For more information, you can visit: http://ecoartborders.wordpress.com/
Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots
September 22, 2012–January 20, 2013 Guest curated by Sue Spaid and opening September 22, 2012, Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots addresses farming as both activism and art form. Featuring a real working farm within the gallery, a farm stand in the museum lobby, sculptures used for farming, videos and other installations,… Continue reading Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots
AppleThink – Call for Participants
Creative Camp in Aizpute, Latvia. September 13-15, 2012 AppleThink is a collaboration between The Center for New Media CultureRIXC, Latvian Contemporary Arts Center and Serde from Latvia, as well as Pixelache Helsinki from Finland. Apples are one of the most harvest-rich, yet under-exploited resources available in Latvia and other post-kolkhoz (collective Soviet farms) countries. The… Continue reading AppleThink – Call for Participants
CARBON 13
The exhibition will run from 31st August 2012 – 17th February 2013. Opening: 31 August, 6–8pm “With Carbon 13 and the Marfa Dialogues, Ballroom Marfa continues its mission of presenting art as a transforming media capable of addressing the most pressing issues of our time: The exhibition consists of newly commissioned work by eight international artists who… Continue reading CARBON 13
Seeking Fresh ideas, Freshly presented
WOLFoundation – the Web of Life Foundation – is seeking submissions of essays to its annual competition that carries $2,000 in prizes “WOLFoundation is a non-profit organization aimed at encouraging fresh thinking and clear, writing on subjects related to our environment. We are looking for ideas presented in a high quality, non-technical style. We welcome… Continue reading Seeking Fresh ideas, Freshly presented
Dorsky Museum announces programs for Dear Mother Nature, Hudson Valley Artists 2012
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art announces the programs they have organized in conjunction with the exhibition Dear Mother Nature, Hudson Valley Artists 2012, on display in the Alice and Horace Chandler Gallery through November 4. The program, developed by curator Linda Weintraub and the exhibiting artists, seeks to increase audience understanding of individual artworks… Continue reading Dorsky Museum announces programs for Dear Mother Nature, Hudson Valley Artists 2012
10 Days of Climate Action – Call for Artists
10 Days of Climate Action is an initiative of the Human Impacts Institute to bring together artists, musicians and performers to install climate-inspired public works throughout New York City. In an effort to inspire New Yorkers to think more critically about our actions and their impacts, each day of 10 Days of Climate Action will… Continue reading 10 Days of Climate Action – Call for Artists
Recycling Games – TerraCycle
TerraCycle creates national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Anyone can sign up for these programs, called the Brigades, and send them waste. Then, the collected waste is turned into different products and materials available at major retailers. Terracycle encourages teams from the 21 countries where their Brigades operate in to beat their… Continue reading Recycling Games – TerraCycle
The poets vs. neogreenwashing?
“Any campaign to protect the wild world which avoids acknowledging our intuitive, emotional relationship with it will leave itself open to the kind of heartless ideological assault it is now receiving from the neogreens. […] Perhaps the best rejoinder to those who believe the world is a giant spreadsheet is an engagement with its messy,… Continue reading The poets vs. neogreenwashing?
