The Electricity Fairy is a new film which approaches the issue of mountaintop removal from the everyday need for electricity: "They reach out and flip the switch and the light comes on. Well, there''s not a magic electricity fairy. That electricity comes from a power plant that feeds on coal". But the question of coal-fired... Continue Reading →
Tehran Times : Capitalism is destroying the ecosystem: Ahmadinejad
For those of us living with western news media who's narrative of Iran is terrorism and nuclear armament, this article provides a different perspective. Who do you believe? Wetlands are a key component of the matrix of biodiversity, often massively impacted on by industrial production, and also the key focus of many ecological remediation/ restoration... Continue Reading →
Tradable Energy Quotas: a solution for peak oil and climate change?
Beth Stratford edited the recent report on Tradable Energy Quotas for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil Peak Oil on Wikipedia). She is Energy and Finance Campaigner for Friends of the Earth Scotland, and an MSc student in Ecological Economics. If information campaigns are inadequate for motivating behaviour change, and carbon price rises... Continue Reading →
CORE
Edinburgh College of Art launches its Creative Research into the Environment on Thurs 3rd March 2011 in the Evolution Building. There will be presentations from 3-5pm followed by refreshments. Key members are artists Elizabeth Ogilvie & Anne Bevan, and landscape architects Ross Mclean & Lisa Mackenzie. Elizabeth Ogilvie contributes regularly to ECA's Art, Space, Nature... Continue Reading →
Going Green
Julie's Bicycle just launched a publication, developed with the Mayor of London and Frieze Art Fair, on the visual arts. This is one of a series of 'how to' guides across artforms. Starting with work in 2007 that looked at the Greenhouse Gas emissions of the UK Music Industry, Julie's Bicycle has researched and produced... Continue Reading →
Growing Exchange discussion
Friday 25 February 2011, 4-6pm at CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Free public discussion between Alex Wilde and Annechien Meier reflecting on the residency at CCA sharing research and talking about practice, leading into a discussion on community growing and related issues in Glasgow. growing_exchange_flyer
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