Water ink (by BDDPetFils) is a beautiful and effective way to deliver an important message.
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In a Bronx Complex, Doing Good Mixes With Looking GoodThe rebirth of the South Bronx isn’t news. But Via Verde is. And it makes as good an argument as any new building in the city for the cultural and civic value of architecture. The profession, or in any case much talk about it, has been fixated for too long on brand-name luxury objects and buildings as sculptures instead of attending to the richer, broader, more urgent vein of public policy and community engagement, in which aesthetics play a part.
Via Verde helps shift the conversation. Like all good architecture, it is handsome. Unlike too much, it goes out of its way to be healthy. It evolved out of a competition five years ago, organized by Shaun Donovan, then commissioner of the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, now President Obama’s secretary of housing and urban development. The idea was to spur developers to team with architects in combining the latest green concepts with high-quality architecture for a public-housing project, a “beacon,” as Mr. Donovan put it to me the other day, that would “re-engage design with the issue of affordable housing.”
Read more about this promising project in the debut of the brand new architectural critic for the New York Times.
Through a network of volunteers, the Center for Biological Diversity is giving away 100,000 free Endangered Species Condoms in 2011 as part of our 7 Billion and Counting campaign.
The condoms are an engaging, lively way to get people talking about the unsustainable growth of the human population (it’s expected to hit 7 billion by the end of October 2011) and the effect it’s having on the extinction of species around the globe.
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Nevada Museum of Art, this Museum of ideas is releasing « Altered Landscape : Photographs of a Changing Environment », featuring a selection of the museum’s permanent collection. Since its inception in 1990, this photographic collection has grown to include more than 900 prints by leading photographers including Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Edward Burtynsky, Amy Stein, Terry Evans, David Maisel, Olivo Barbieri and Fandra Chang.
Meet Jason deCaires Taylor. He’s a sculptor on a mission. He wants to create art and save the environment all at the same time. He’s accomplishing this by creating concrete sculptures that facilitate the spawning of new coral reefs while freeing-up the surrounding ecosystem from the effects of pollution, tourism and overfishing, all while promoting a more positive relationship between humans and this underwater ecosystem.
Receding Glacial Cap With Cryoalgae by Jason Edwards from Australia is the winner of 2011 Eureka Prize for Science Photography.
This region of the Antarctic Peninsula has undergone one of the highest temperature increases in the world over the past 50 years. The mean annual temperature has risen by more than 3°C and has been responsible for a significant thinning of ice caps, recession of glaciers and break-up of ice shelves.
Anthropocene Mapping 1.2 (by Globaïa)
About the project:
This video is based on the map experiments I have done to illustrate the Anthropocene. It shows several features of our global civilization: cities, built environment, transmission lines, pipelines, main paved and unpaved roads and railways.
More maps can be found here, including some with airline routes, shipping lanes and submarine cables:globaia.org/en/anthropocene/
Mary Edna Fraser uses the process of batik silk dying to tell the story of climate change in both pictures and process. You can find out more about the project here.
Metropolis II by Chris Burden (the movie) (by gosupermarche)
Kinetic sculpture re-imagining how cities of the future could be built to be more more efficient and therefore more sustainable…or coolest Hotwheels track ever? You decide.
Some might say Kate Bingaman Burt is obsessed with consumption. She definitely thinks we’re obsessed with consumption. To make us aware of our obsessive consumption, she is drawing something she has purchased every day. If this is confusing you, it will all make sense if you just go to her site.
Local art students created the Giant Flip Flop Monkey Sculpture community art project out of thousands of pairs of recycled plastic flip-flops in San Paulo, Brazil. Although I think this is a much better use for flip flops than wearing them, they will available for use as footwear after the exhibit is over.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Earth From Above series is as enlightening as it is beautiful. Check out his site for the entire collection of photos broken down by continent and with lots of useful information. Nothing will make you want to take care of the earth more than seeing it in all its splendor or its blight.
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