This eco-orientated exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts features art by the likes of Tracy Emin and Anthony Gormley
… Earth: art of a changing world Chris Carroll | 17th December 2009 Reviews Reviews Events Eco Art Climate Change Tracy Emin Antony Gormley webgsk-contemporary-earth,-.jpg This eco-orientated exhibition at …
A new exhibition at the Barbican explores the symbiotic relationship between art, architecture and environmentalism.
… Radical Nature art exhibition Will Bugler | 19th June 2009 Reviews Reviews Events Art Activism Through Art Barbican Centre radical_art_10.jpg A new …
Can climate art help save the world? Rebecca Heald reports on a school art installation and its ambitious 'Cool it Schools' global online initiative
… Schools using art to learn about climate change Rebecca … Activism Climate Change Schools Education Art Global Online Community Children COP15 … coolitschoolsvillage.jpg Can climate art help save the world? Rebecca Heald reports …
Banksy may be playing for laughs with his counter-culture art, but there's a serious take-home message too...
… 2009 Comment Society Politics And Economics Art istock_000004261069xsmall.jpg Banksy may … playing for laughs with his counter-culture art, but there's a serious take-home message too... Bristol folk-hero folk-artist Banksy has returned to his roots to …
Pollyanna Pickering on being one of the few westerners to see a giant panda in the wild, saving the Abyssinian Wolf and how art has led her to a greater appreciation of the natural world...
… Q & A: Pollyanna Pickering, artist and wildlife conservationist Laura … the wild, saving the Abyssinian Wolf and how art has led her to a greater appreciation of … world... How did you become a wildlife artist? I always loved drawing and painting as …
Production line education is creating clones and stifling the imagination of our children. Is it any wonder they are stressed and unhappy?
… with biometric equipment bought from two Department for Children, Schools and … ‘It’s a crisis of human resources, and in particular a failure to tap the full potential … of Colorado at Denver, says in his 2002 article, ‘It’s time to start the Slow School …
The new work by artist Maya Lin, famous for her memorial to US soldiers lost in Vietnam, commemorates the species destroyed and endangered by human action. As the list of the dead grows, David Hawkins wonders if the future is set in stone
… David Hawkins | 1st April 2009 Reviews Eco Art Species Extinct Conservation Maya Lin mass_remembrance.jpg The new work by artist Maya Lin, famous for her memorial to US … extinct since 2007. A little piece of public art like this can yank us out of the daily …
The plight of a village set to be demolished to make way for Heathrow's third runway is the inspiration behind Hester Berry's exhibition of paintings on show in a London gallery
… Using art to highlight the madness of Heathrow Laura … entire village of Sipson and its 700 homes. Artist Hester Berry has made this community …
Many plastic bags end up as waste on our streets, parks and beaches. Rosie Barnes' photographs capture these blots on the landscape
… Plastic bag art: how to spoil any view Laura Sevier | 30th … in a different way.' Witches' Knickers She started taking photographs for the 'Witches' … As a social documentary photographer, she is particularly interested in 'our relationship …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory...
… in the name of the Goddess that swims in the part of the sky NOT YET COVERED OVER WITH NIKE … of war’. What is our MORAL EQUIVALENT OF ART AND ENTERTAINMENT? My friend with his … FETID SINNER) accord the Oscars and the high art of Christo and Jean Claude. What is the …
How do you turn people on to local food and away from supermarkets? One way is to celebrate it through 'adventures', from wild food barbecues to scrumptious feasts of locally baked foods
… local food, as well as farming, landscape and art. The Food Adventures have become immensely … than their tables. In 2006 Jason helped start the annual Bario and Kelabit Highlands … woodland walks and an exhibition of local artists in a gallery; with all the art …
An exhibition in Beijing reveals architect Paolo Soleri's latest radical green city concept
… video exhibits at the Beijing Centre of the Arts (BCA) on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, until … calls the ‘urban ribbon', the long, linear parts to the city. Soleri's re-imagining of … by symmetrically astounding networks of arteries and veins'. One wonders which …
The author on wilderness, activism, homemade veggie lasagne and the value of sturdy boots
… called it el duende , the spirit from the earth itself that charges art with power, and I believe that the … I would call it the Zapatismo of the human heart, which stays tender to an intuition of …
When PCB transformers exploded in a New York university in 1991, contaminating the campus with dioxins, it set Eric Francis Coppolino on the path to becoming an environmental journalist.
… Ramos, interim dean of fine and performing arts at the state college in New Paltz, New … someone who was about to enter the theatre department; a talented, fragile young woman who … vulnerable. New Paltz excels in one area, the arts. Getting into this programme was an …
Who needs nature when you can manufacture a superior, ersatz substitute?
… of the fake Mark White | 1st April 2009 News Artificial Reality Consumerism Philosophy … until a few days after it had been hung by art prankster Banksy. Banksy was making a … put out by the PR industry and government departments as fake; as it stands, broadcast news …
Tracy Worcester’s ‘Pig Business’, a groundbreaking expose of US industrial pig farming conglomerate Smithfield Foods, has met with repeated attempts at censorship by the company’s lawyers. Here, she explains how England’s libel laws have helped stall the film’s general release, and stopped the world learning more about the environmental realities of intensive livestock rearing
… film, Pig Business, at the Royal Society of Arts on 13th November 2008, Channel 4, which … telling the truth. Not always an easy job. Particularly if that doctor now works for … like hydrogen sulphide and ammonia, and this particular worker’s illness is not cheap. The …
An installation featuring giant tropical tree stumps in Trafalgar square is designed to symbolise threatened rainforest trees throughout the world
… the installation is the vision of British artist Angela Palmer, and its intention is to … ‘lungs' through continual deforestation.' The artist originally planned to exhibit the tree … climate change doom and gloom,' says the artist, Ghost Forest 'carries a message of …
In writing <i>Leviathan</i>, Thomas Hobbes created a monster: us. By reasserting our humanity we can correct the mistakes of the social scientists, says Tom Hodgkinson
… and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the … much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is …
Green groups lose out on thousands of pounds as UK's biggest eco-festival is forced into late cancellation
… Big Green Gathering , a five-day festival of arts, culture and music in the Mendip Hills in … record on health and safety since it started in 1994 and that crime levels were low …
Adam Leith Gollner's new book is a journey of discovery through the science, history, art and politics of fruit
… of discovery through the science, history, art and politics of fruit The initial … to entertain with at your next dinner party. The Fruit Hunters: a story of nature, …
There's still money to be had for good environmental projects, but it's a fraction of what's being spent in other areas, says Harriet Williams
… where none would otherwise be taken'. The art of good giving is to bring about positive … says of his support for Friends of the Earth. The UK has a large, well-endowed …
From country cousin to king gold, silver is slowly cleaning up its tarnished reputation, writes Matilda Lee
… Mining, Communities and the Environment’, by Earthworks and Oxfam America, the environmental … Diamonds, Rio Tinto, the Signet Group and Cartier. Its aim is to tackle human rights, … change and consumer campaigns, only about a quarter of the world’s silver goes into …