musings
adding to this list for my next project
Avoid Reduce Reuse Regift Rejig Repair Repurpose Recycle Respect Replenish Refuse.
Read moreAntennae issue on art, environment and sustainability
who wants to do this? An issue on art, environment and sustainability “At the forefront of today’s social issues are questions related to the human relationship to nature and the environment, the meaning of a sustainable future and the relationship of environmentalism to modernity and today’s economic structures. While the sciences have, until recently, dominated [...]
Read moreincurable disease strikes the outback
[Hattah Lakes Storylines Murray Bourcher and Environment Australia 2008]
Read moreThe last passenger pigeon
The last passenger pigeon the world will ever know died on September 1, 1914
Read morethe difference between weather and climate
Would be just that bit better without the canned laughter…
Read morePossessions
The intelligent man, when he dies, leaves no possessions. If he has collected worthless objects, it is embarassing to have them discovered. If the objects are of good quality, they will depress his heirs at the thought of how attached he must have been to them. It is all the more deplorable if the [...]
Read more131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds
Go to http://www.climatecentral.org/blogs/131-years-of-global-warming-in-26-seconds/ to see 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds The data comes from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures. As NASA notes, “in this animation, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower [...]
Read moreZombie Environmentalism
Zombie environmentalism. Phrase. /’zombi In|vaIren’ment(a)lIz(e)m/ A trend in early 21st century relations with the natural world. It can be divided into three different aspects. 1. The behaviour of individuals or groups in society which is willingly or unconsciously uncaring of the natural world and the consequences of individual or collective behaviours. The conduct of [...]
Read moreThe Night Watchman, 2004 by Francis Alÿs
Unfortunately I can’t embed this video. I found it whilst searching for a video/dvd on Alÿs. http://www.artangel.org.uk//projects/2005/seven_walks/video_the_nightwatch/video_the_nightwatch
Read moretree death — mentions Lake Clifton but refers to deaths around the world
Climate change is here… NARRATION Something has changed too, for the Tuart trees. At Lake Clifton, south of Perth, their twisted skeletons rise through the peppermint groves. These ones died in the 1990s. In other areas, they are failing to fruit, and the species’ seed bank is drastically declining. Prof Giles Hardy Again, we [...]
Read moreEarth Day today!
wishing you, earth, less extinctions and habitat loss wishing all humans thoughtful and radical connections and positive futures
Read moreWhere You Walk Matters
Forest walking is better for your health than urban walking for cardiovascular and metabolic health according to Japanese research http://www.hphpcentral.com/article/where-you-walk-matters Original Paper: Qing Li; Toshiaki Otsuka; Maiko Kobayashi; Yoko Wakayama; Hirofumi Inagaki; Masao Katsumata; Yukiyo Hirata; YingJi Li; Kimiko Hirata; Takako Shimizu; Hiroko Suzuki; Tomoyuki Kawada; Takahide Kagawa Acute effects of walking in forest [...]
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