Nov 22, 09
Gonzo Green
[Image: Preflooded Wetlands by Liam Young and Darryl Chen].Unexpectedly apropos of the previous post, Liam Young of Tomorrow's Thoughts Today, together with Darryl Chen, has created a series of quite beautiful images called "Postcards from a Green Future" – one of which, seen above, uses the Maunsell Sea Forts as a gantried foundation for suburban anti-flood design in an idyllic southeast England. The entire suite of images is almost farcically green – it's sustainability redone as Grand...
New Grassroots Effort Unites Groups Fighting For A Clean Future
The progressive and clean energy has finished putting together a major effort to fight for clean air, clean water, and clean energy jobs. I had first reported the first green shoots of this effort at the end of July. As the Washington Post now reports: A coalition of environmental, labor, veterans and religious groups formally launched a national lobbying campaign Tuesday aimed at mobilizing grass-roots support for passage of a Senate climate bill this fall. The group —...
Worldchanging Interview: Mara G. Haseltine
Mara G. Haseltine, a globally recognized environmental artist, has been outspoken for years on the issue of restoring the population of Crassostrea Virginica, New York's native oysters. In late April, she unveiled a collaborative piece of public art that she created with students in her "Oyster Gardens" class at The New School in New York City. The New School Midden (pictured at right) is a swirling array of glinting oyster shells, arranged to look like the movement of tidal waters. Haseltine...
Does Eco-Tourism Matter?
Field Notes of an Accidental Eco-Tourist: Part I Costa Rica would probably not be my first choice for the first totally workfree holiday I’ve taken in three years, and the Central Pacific coast wouldn’t be my first choice in Costa Rica. The travel scene in Costa Rica’s Central Pacific region is centred around the town of Jaco, a mostly charmless agglomeration of concrete midrises, interchangeable seafood restaurants, surf shops and "gentlemen’s clubs." But I had a few blessedly...
Invidividual Action vs Collective Action
A continuing debate erupts within the environmental movement about the relative merits of individual versus collective action. Back in 2007, on the subject of individual action, The New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote, You can change lights. You can change cars. But if you don't change leaders, your actions are nothing more than an expression of, as Dick Cheney would say, "personal virtue." I heard criticisms like Friedman's constantly throughout a one-year project in environmental...
The Week in Sustainable Mobility (5/6/07)
Mitigating climate change is feasible without sacrificing economic development and is affordable, according to the summary report for policymakers released by Working Group III of the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). More... IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri noted that: This report for the first time has dealt with lifestyles and consumption patterns as an important means by which we can bring about mitigation of GHG emissions. You can look at technologies, you can look at...
Notes from the Emirates: Air-Port-City, Condensation Cube, and Paradise in the New World
When environmental art emerged as a classification, artists like Robert Smithson and James Turrell were creating pieces using the earth itself as their medium. Most works of earth art commented on the state of the environment and the impact of humans and industry on the land. Today our global mobility, digital dexterity and heightened awareness of the interrelated implications of social inequity, political corruption, human health, and the earth's rapid demise, have given rise to a new...
Profiles in Municipal Sustainability: An Interview with Dean Kubani
Over the past year, as climate change and other environmental issues took their place at the center of public concern, cities and municipal governments have emerged as progress leaders.
Kew Brew, Organic Beer and Drinking Sustainably
We're fans of drinking for a better world here, whether the beverage in question is palm nut beer, organic wine or better-than-fair-trade coffee. Therefore, we can heartily endorse Kew Brew. Kew Brew is made with varieties of hops grown at the Royal Botanic Gardens. Sales of the beer support Kew's international Millennium Seed Bank Project. Since we're big fans of seed banks, of botanical gardens (which are often now on the frontlines of educating the public about issues of biodiversity -...
Top Ten UK Green Energy Projects
The UK Department of Trade and Industry has named ten new green energy projects the best in the nation, including the solar-powered CIS tower in Manchester, the Eden Project, Balcas biofuels, the Wave Hub in Cornwall (though not, as far as I can tell, the Manchester Bobber) and the Kentish Flats offshore wind farm (though, again, not the London Array). Worth a look.
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