We need to learn to adapt to the environmental crises we have created. Zoltán Grossman's article No Longer the Miner's Canary: Indigenous Nations' Response to Climate Change published on Terrain.org argues that there are significant lessons to learn from indigenous peoples. These lessons focus on community building and sharing knowledge amongst communities, thus empowering... Continue Reading →
Best Life Environment projects 2011
The European Union's LIFE programme supports interesting and innovative projects. This publication highlights the exemplary initiatives across Europe which use different creative approaches.
What does an Ice-Free Arctic mean?
Stephen Leahy's article (published by the Inter Press Service) on the "uncharted territory" of an ice-free arctic makes interesting reading. It's not just a problem for the indigenous peoples of the circumpolar region. It's not just a problem for polar bears, although they are faced with extinction as a result. And in that context talking... Continue Reading →
Land and Energy Pt. 2 – review of ‘The Time Is Now’
Review of The Time Is Now: Public Art of the Sustainable City There is no question that energy generation impacts on landscape, both urban and rural. It always has. The current re-engineering of systems towards renewable energy is, on one level, not different. Wind turbines are just one example around which there is a very... Continue Reading →
Northern Perspectives: Arctic Art Education and Arts-based Research Methods
Professors Timo Jokela & Glen Coutts, University of Lapland will be speaking at Northern Perspectives: Arctic Art Education and Arts-based Research Methods at this UWS seminar 2-4pm Saturday 22nd September at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. Alison Bell and I are respondents.
Agreement entitles Whanganui River to legal identity
Companies have 'personhood,' ie. a legal identity equivalent to people in the sense that they can enter into contracts and agreements (see Wikipedia article). This is a subject of considerable argument, and there are several campaigns to remove this status. On the other hand in New Zealand there is a move (reported in the New... Continue Reading →

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