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 →
Sights and Sounds of Bitumen Extraction
"Changeable Places brings together individuals from different contexts working with stories about particular places of environmental sensitivity." The post Sights and Sounds of Bitumen Extraction in Alberta Canada provides a deep exploration of a locality.
Teaneck Creek – Artists’ Projects
Rick Mills, Professor of Printmaking at Long Island University, is also artist in residence at the Teaneck Creek Conservancy and through this has developed a programme of art and education. He has involved a range of artists with environmental/ecological practices, as well as work with children and young people in local schools. Using resources of... Continue Reading →
Hydromemories: Call for examples of artists working with water
Hydromemories is seeking to build up an archive of artists working with water. The site already contains a number of interesting examples, to which one might add: Betsy Damon, Keepers of the Waters, Liz Ogilvie's Bodies of Water amongst other works, Anne Bevan's Source amongst other works, Common Ground's Confluence and other projects, Helix Arts'... 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 →
Tim Morton
Tim Morton, Author of Ecology Without Nature and The Ecological Thought, maintains a blog on eco-criticism. Recent posts have focused on drama including thoughts about plays, and drama as an ecological form. He also podcasts an evolving lecture Hyperobjects, and has excellent links to other writers on eco-criticism.
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