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 …
What is at stake in the power of the image to effect change?
… condition. Slow violence The discipline of art history can be useful for thinking … representational challenges. In many ways, artistic practice operates in a different way … left unseen. It illustrates the role that the arts can play in making visible, and coming to …
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 …
Artists and poets offer voice and visionary direction in the recovery from Covid-19 and in the fight against climate breakdown.
… culture David Buckland | 6th August 2020 News Art Culture Poetry Thought Leaders Covid-19 Climate Breakdown Pollution Pods Artists and poets offer voice and visionary … Cape Farewell in 2001 with the belief that artists have a unique power to communicate …
Gary Hume and 77 leading artists argued BP representative must be removed from judging panel because of company's failure to address climate breakdown.
… gary-hume-007.jpg Gary Hume and 77 leading artists argued BP representative must be … significant controversy last year when artist and judge of the 2019 award, Gary Hume … Cube), powerfully spoke out against the partnership in a letter to the Gallery’s …
The Civic Centre in Plymouth comes to life through a public art exhibition that champions love in the face of the climate emergency.
… Breakdown Ben Okri Poetry Plymouth real_-_article_image.jpg The Civic Centre in Plymouth comes to life through a public art exhibition that champions love in the face … autumn evening, a listed building in the heart of Plymouth City is transformed into a …
Tom launches the Idler Academy to teach us good grammar, sadly lacking practical skills like carpentry and lastly, of course, merriment
… for the modern age were thinking, doing and partying, and it struck me that in actual fact, … themselves to quiet contemplation, study and art. For the Greeks, education was synonymous … but this is just interpretation on my part. The result of these ungrammatical slogans …
The National Portrait Gallery goes into shutdown over climate activists chanting to the tune of The Beatles inside the Paul McCartney exhibition.
… to the tune of The Beatles inside the Paul McCartney exhibition. Birds were chirping, … The morning of Sunday 27 August 2023 started as a regular Bank Holiday Monday in … London campaigners were heading for Paul McCartney: Eyes of the Storm 1963-64 to protest. …
A landmark 6-part documentary series is planned with Satish Kumar - peace and environment activist, religious philosopher, teacher, writer and broadcaster.
… Education peacewalk.jpg A landmark 6-part documentary series is planned with Satish … in the face of this. But the message at the heart of Satish’s powerful teaching is that … of Resurgence Magazine championing ecology, art and spirituality, and then founder of …
Students in Finland are tearing down the barriers between sustainability and high fashion.
… the Suurjännitehalli in Espoo, Finland. This article first appeared in the latest issue of … Marin of the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Finland was voted out as prime … told me. Boundaries The boundaries between art, design and fashion are being challenged …
The facts of climate breakdown are scientifically established - so don't get lost in BBC Radio Four's latest Moral Maze.
… remains for a very long time. For the best part of a century the scientists who recognised … when I was barely past the halfway mark. An artful ruse Buerk’s style of climate denial … like to hear them.” This is nothing but an artful ruse: completely ignore the …
Anthropology, the study of humankind, should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, with its singular capacity to inspire the imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing, must be fought off.
… imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education … I loved languages, literature, history and art, and I yearned to travel. But I had never … of anthropogenic forest islands or dark earths are cases in point. The myth of …
Oil company BP disappears from Channel 4 coverage despite being originally announced as Paralympic Games sponsor.
… Channel 4’s coverage, BP remains a ‘Gold Partner’ of the British Paralympics … Games. Tobacco BP is also an International Partner of the International Paralympic … to fossil fuel sponsorship of sport and the arts continues to grow ahead of November’s …
The UK’s most successful NGO is based in a Dorset village, with no members or PR team. Paul Kingsnorth meets the duo behind it…
… King met whilst working at Friends of the Earth during its inception in the 1970s. King … on the small rather than the vast, the particular rather than the general and the … letter-writing or hard-hitting reports, but art, poetry, sculpture, and the creative …
How can museums reimagine themselves in the context of the climate crisis?
… News Editor’s Picks The Conversation Museums Arts Culture Climate Breakdown The British … extensive collection of natural and cultural artefacts, his own back garden offered the … Chief Executive Nick Merriman noted in an article written in the wake of the Black Lives …
Depths of North Atlantic ocean once as warm as the Med.
… ocean temperatures. Using state-of-the-art new laboratory measurements, they were … Montague is editor of The Ecologist. This article is based on a press release from …
… It’s time to cut oily money out of the arts.” Barclays, which sponsors Sadlers Wells, … “as one of the bad guys”. The protest is part of Fossil Free London campaign targeting … Montague is editor of The Ecologist . This article is based on a press release from …
Warming of 2°C would release billions of tonnes of soil carbon.
… a new combination of observational data and Earth System Models – which simulate the … to temperature in different locations on Earth to work out its sensitivity to global warming." State-of-the-art models suggest an uncertainty of about 120 …
Diversely-abled people are pioneering a host of innovative environmental projects and successfully building communities where people and planet prosper.
… I've visited dozens of communities that are part of the international Camphill movement. At … are honoured as creators of beauty in art studios, weaveries, and other craft … people, and to using agricultural work as part of their therapeutic practice. Whether …
We’re learning about the climate crisis and reality by taking our education to the streets.
… worse everyone else did. Barred from sports, art, and the outdoors, we are split from our … the final calm before everything falls apart. This is our world now, one which our … and greed. New Pathways Reforming education starts, but does not end with fixing the way we …
Resistance is growing in Todos Santos, Baja California, to a tourism and University campus mega-development of 4,500 homes that claims to be 'free range and locally sourced', writes Viviane Mahieux. It has already grossly disfigured one of Mexico most gorgeous beaches, while locals fear it will drain their aquifers and obliterate a harmonious community.
… like 'quaint' and 'unspoiled' pop up in most articles written about it. Considered a … Cabo, Todos Santos is known for surfing, art galleries, film and music festivals, and … large boulders, originally placed there as part of the sea wall, have been exposed. This …
The UK budget must be about pouring enough water on climate fires and irrigating resources to those in need - not about plucking geese and ‘maxed-out’ credit cards.
… Louis XIV’S finance minister, who said: “The art of taxation consists in so plucking the … a new language is needed. One place to start is with the challenge of attempting to … from 1995 to 2015, accounting for a full quarter of global emissions. Warming In 2020 it …