350.org has been focusing on the math argument (see previous post), arguing to leave fossil fuels in the ground, whatever their value on company balance sheets. Rachel Schragis has contributed a flow chart - zoomable version here.
Carrying the Fire 2013
Dark Mountain "feels like the beginning of the story of the world. Not a world shaped by politicians or by global corporations, but by storytellers and singers who make us feel at home on the earth." Charlotte Du Cann, The Independent 14th-16th June at Wiston Lodge near Biggar, South Lanarkshire An intimate festival of ideas,... Continue Reading →
Oil, photography
Following up on Louis Helbig's presentation at Edinburgh College of Art comes Suzaan Boettger's review in Brooklyn Rail of three books of photography of oil landscapes, Burtynsky's Oil, J. Henry Fair's The Day After Tomorrow: Images of our Earth in Crisis, and Richard Misrach and Kate Orff's Petrochemical America. The review addresses the approaches of the... Continue Reading →
Peat: subject of Wellcome Science Writing Prize
Peat is fundamentally interesting and important. This short article captures just a few of the reasons.
TippingPoint Newcastle
Tipping Point have announced their next gathering and have an open application procedure for some places for artists and academics. "TippingPoint, in partnership with Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability (NIReS), will be holding a major national gathering of those concerned with the interface between the arts and culture on one hand, and environmental issues,... Continue Reading →
Corporations, Climate and the UN
A significant report from the Polaris Institute on corporate influence, documenting the ways that lobbyists infiltrate UN climate change negotiations. Parallel with PLATFORM's work on challenging the 'social license to operate' culture, including the recent publication Not If But When, Culture Beyond Oil.
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