The Serpentine are holding a Marathon of Gardens on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th October featuring a fascinating line up of speakers from Charles Jencks and Dan Pearson through to Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Guiseppe Penone via Fritz Haeg and Brian Eno.
BLDGBLOG: Tar Creek Supergrid
BLDGBLOG's most recent post relates to a PhD focusing on re-purposing abandoned mines as renewable energy infrastructure.
Wasteland Twinning
Wasteland and stalled spaces are important. This new project connects wasteland in different places as well as offering some suggestions for ways to explore those on your doorstep - join in and be twinned with places in Indonesia, Australia, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, India (interestingly there are no US or Canadian partners). Most of... Continue Reading →
Brief to make KEYSTONE XL an international issue
Brief for a campaign extension Bill McKibben's team along with a number of other NGOs and activist groups in the US and Canada have been campaigning to stop Obama signing off the Keystone XL project. The extension of the Keystone pipeline is a fundamental to the development of tar sands oil. Tar sands are one... Continue Reading →
AHM’s State of Play, Dundee
AHM's final State of Play event takes place in Dundee on Saturday 1 October. As with previous events it will include a number of 'One Minute Manifestos'. One of these has emerged through a collective process of writing initiated by Tim Collins and contributed to by a number of participants in the Values of Environmental... Continue Reading →
The Three Gorges, 3rd Edition « Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen
The Three Gorges, 3rd Edition « Artwork by Sonja Hinrichsen. Sonja Hinrichsen makes ephemeral works of great beauty. These include walking in snow to create patterns. These are reminiscent of neolithic marks on stones near Kilmartin, Scotland. Her most recent work is also ephemeral, but is the result of working in the Three Gorges in... Continue Reading →
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