Recycling of Gully Waste and General Road Construction Materials in South Lanarkshire The Council requires to procure services for the acceptance and subsequent recycling of gully waste and road construction materials produced from the works of South Lanarkshire Council’s Roads and Transportation Services. Roads and Transportation Services operates four Depots as follows:- Carnwath Depot –... Continue Reading →
Greenmaps: a tool for local youth activism
The Greenmaps movement has spread across the world and has become an effective tool for local youth activism. This slideshow introduces Greenmaps and provides inspiration on how to develop it in your area. Highly recommended. Thanks to Wendy Brawer for highlighting.
DIY art mediums and materials
Linda Weintraub and Natalie Jeremijenko want to artists to make their materials and mediums themselves from resources around them, rather than always sourcing from art stores. Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author. Her many books including To Life: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet, Cycle-Logical Art: Recycling Matters for Eco-Art, and Eco-Centric... Continue Reading →
Mandy Haggith, ed., Into the Forest: An Anthology of Tree Poems (Glasgow: Saraband, 2013), pp. 280. Into the Forest, cover image by Carry Ackroyd (by permission Saraband) An early linkage between literature and ecology in the recent revival of nature writing, Kim Taplan’s book Tongues in Trees (1989) investigated the connection between humans and woodland,... Continue Reading →
Call for Papers: two Sessions at RGS-IBG 2014 Annual International Conference, London, August 26-29, 2014.
Cfps (two) that might be of interest to art and ecology practitioners and theorists - thanks to Michelle Bastion, Graham Jeffrey and Wallace Heim for the flag. “Geoaesthetics: art, environment and co-production” Session convened by Miriam Burke, Royal Holloway, University of London; Sasha Engelmann, University of Oxford; Harriet Hawkins, Royal Holloway, University of London Abstract: Alongside... Continue Reading →
Aesthetics of Uncivilisation Pt.2
The first post under the title Aesthetics of Uncivilisation focused on responding to Charlotte Du Caan's call for submissions for the Dark Mountain Project's next publications and her reflection on Seeing through a glass darkly. She said, The fact that civilisation holds us so tightly in its unkind embrace is not only because it controls... Continue Reading →
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