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 →
Events at IASH
Tuesday, 7 August, 1.30 - 4 pm, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh We are having two seminars next Tuesday by current IASH Postdoctoral Fellows on the research they are doing - if you are free and would like to come, you would be most welcome. The details... 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.
2° Celsius = 565 gigatons but 2,795 gigatons = $27 trillion
I normally criticise environmentalists using financial numbers, but Bill McKibben's argument in August's Rolling Stone is based on really interesting numbers: 167 countries are signed up to the 2° target (keep the impact of climate change within this range). 565 gigatons is the amount of carbon we can release into the atmosphere (roughly speaking) before... Continue Reading →
The Reverend Billy says OCCUPY and 350.ORG—You Come Down Here and Embrace!
This is the cover story in Brooklyn Rail... On Henry Street just uptown from Foley Square in Manhattan, there is a church called Mariners’ Temple. One Sunday we were among hundreds of folks listening while Mother Henrietta Carter preached. She stood up there, white-robed, and gestured out across the assembled faithful. “We need to see... Continue Reading →
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