Six years ago Professor John Schellnhuber (who had recently been appointed as Chief Government Adviser on Climate and Related Issues by the German Chancellor) talked at the RSA Art and Ecology Conference (2006) about the challenges in modelling the interactions between different critical points in global environmental systems - gulf streams, sea ice, glaciers and snow on mountains,... Continue Reading →
Funding Natural Heritage Projects
Scottish Natural Heritage publishes a guide to various funding sources for natural heritage projects - included are schemes that support on the ground action as well as communication and education. This guide covers EU, Public Sector, Lottery as well as Trusts and Foundations and can be found here. Also worth checking out is the website... Continue Reading →
CultureLab: Bio-artists who tinker with tools of science
The New Scientist's CultureLab blog ran a stor, y Bio-artists who tinker with tools of science, in early August on artists working with "the tools of science." The article draws in particular on the work of SymbioticA. It doesn't talk about Critical Art Ensemble or Eduardo Kac, but it does acknowledge the multiple possible outcomes... Continue Reading →
6 Scary Extreme Energy Sources
Following on from Bill McKibben's article, the following list/article is relevant: Light Tight Oil Ultra Deepwater Pre-Salt Oil Tar Sands Offshore Arctic Oil Shale Oil Nuclear Read on here.
Creating climate change parks – greenspace scotland
A new e-resource launched today by greenspace scotland, in partnership with Scottish Natural Heritage, will help park and greenspace managers respond to the challenges of climate change by creating ‘climate change parks’. Full story at creating climate change parks - greenspace scotland.
Time of the Clock, Time of Encounter
If practitioners of environmental and ecological arts have become expert in the critique of spatial politics and practices, should they also be able to develop and use critiques of time? ecoartscotland is a partner in an AHRC funded research project entitled Time of the Clock, Time of Encounter: Pathfinders for Connection. This forms part of... Continue Reading →
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