climate change

networking the arts to save the earth -research paper and article

  1st research paper :  The question we face at the dawn of network culture is whether we, the inhabitants of our networked publics, can reach across our micro-clustered worlds to coalesce into a force capable of understanding the condition we are in....  or are we doomed to dissipate into the network? (Varnelis 2010)  Note a…Read more networking the arts to save the earth -research paper and article

Art & Sustainability quote from Bill McKibben: “Where are the books? The poems? The plays? The g***d***** operas?”

Bill McKibben, founder of an international environmentalist movement called 350.org, wrote an essay entitled “What the warming world needs now is art, sweet art,” in which he bemoans the lack of artistic reaction to climate change: “… if the scientists are right, we’re living through the biggest thing that’s happened since human civilization emerged. One…Read more Art & Sustainability quote from Bill McKibben: “Where are the books? The poems? The plays? The g***d***** operas?”

Aotearoa New Zealand welcomes the dawn of the International Day of Climate Action

Great to see my fellow Kiwis up and about so early - see http://www.350.org for the biggest international effort to wake up the world to the need to push for strong policy action ahead of the UN Copenhagen Climate talks in Dec. Huge amount of creative ideas by people's across the globe now - are…Read more Aotearoa New Zealand welcomes the dawn of the International Day of Climate Action