Reblogging this review of the Compass Collaborator's excellent Deep Routes: MidWest in all Directions
Naomi Klein on indigeneity and the renewal of the public sphere
This interview with Naomi Klein calls out the big green organisations on their compromises and their buy-in to ecosystems assessment and natural capital. She argues that it stems from a fundamentally misplaced viewpoint, What I call the “astronaut’s eye worldview” – which has governed the Big Green environmental movement for so long – and by... Continue Reading →
Community Wind Turbine
We received the Achiltibuie_Wind_turbine_planning_letter via a colleague and friend. The letter is asking people to write in support of a planning application for a community owned wind turbine. The small community on Coigach North of Ullapool is located in a 'world class environment.' It's faced with a number of challenges which are described, but has also... Continue Reading →
TED: Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
Very interesting philosophical position and response to food, life and death.
Case Pyhäjoki reflects and radiates art & activism
Andrew Paterson got in touch to highlight the Case Pyhäjoki transdisciplinary expedition and production workshop having seen our earlier posts from Su Grierson in Fukushima Province, Japan. A group of artists, researchers and activists undertook a drift to Pyhäjoki in Northern Finland at the beginning of August 2013. Pyhäjoki is the proposed location of a new nuclear power... Continue Reading →
Spirited discussions pt. 4 (by Ben Twist, Director of Creative Carbon Scotland)
The last of our Spirited Discussions asking, ‘Can Art Change the Climate? was entitled: Going Beyond the Material: Environment and Invisible Forces in the Literary, Performing and Visual Arts. This, in some ways, reminded me of Wallace Heim’s reference in Spirited Discussion part 2 to Alan Badiou’s idea that the four critical kinds of event... Continue Reading →
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