In a blog for Resilience.org Patrick Lydon paints a picture, I'd like to start off with a story about a woman I know who works full time, takes home a below-median income, and raises two kids in Silicon Valley. This woman also has an organic garden in her tiny back yard, partially for her own... Continue Reading →
Opportunities: Interns to work on Environmental Art Festival Scotland 2015
The Environmental Art Festival Scotland (EAFS) has two Internships (with stipends) to help with the 2015 Festival at the end of August - one focused on Design and Mapping and the other on Production. Themes for the Festival this year are: Inventiveness, foolishness and generosity as a way of understanding the world Food, clothes, shelter... Continue Reading →
North Light Arts: Alchemy of Soil
North Light Arts is delighted to present the ‘Alchemy of Soil’, an outstanding exhibition by the Scottish artist Natalie Taylor at Dunbar Town House Museum and Gallery, East Lothian from 23 May – 21 June 2015. Dunbar is probably best known for being the birthplace, in 1838, of John Muir, one of the world’s best-known... Continue Reading →
Glasgow School of Art’s Climate Challenge project
Counting Consciousness: the book tells the story of our journey of 15 months’ work exploring the edge between creativity and sustainability. The Artists Using Resources in the Community (ARC) project set out primarily to reduce carbon emissions by working with staff and students of the Glasgow School of Art and creative professionals from across the... Continue Reading →
What do we have in Common?
Interesting commentary on Caledonian Everyday Discussions at Summerhall - appreciate the reflection.
UN ecosystem services: visually deconstructed
The Princes Foundation ‘Accounting for Sustainability’ project published an image that inverts the hierarchy of the relationship between the economy and ecology in a particularly unhelpful manner Here the global gross domestic product (GGDP) is illustrated as $63,000bn and the value provided by the Earth to the global economy is $50,800bn (Accounting for Sustainability, 2012). These numbers misrepresent reality. We will not have an economy without stable ecological system in which the economy is based and so it is illogical to value ecosystem services as less than total GGDP.
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