Nature Is Intentionally Beautiful
For the foreseeable future, we will have our hands full getting past the ugliness of cultural disintegration. We’ll need whatever morsels of beauty we can preserve or produce just to keep ourselves sane.
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As Climate Changes, We Need the Arts More than Ever
Art can help us cope with the implications of our collective challenges. It can help prepare society for a possibly traumatic future. It can give voice to suffering and loss, helping people deal with life’s inevitable stress. And it can also offer beauty, which can be especially important in hard times.
In Other Tongues: Ecologies of Meaning and Loss
I regret the lazy oversimplifications of our time. As our world becomes ever fuller withaccessible information, ever more porous, ever more pressing with demands for our attention, so our subtler semiotic capacities appear to stall before the task. Our attempts at interpretation and meaning-making are overwhelmed: more information means less meaning.
Art That Walks in the World
Two California artists are creating public sculptures that heal damaged ecosystems and eventually disappear back into nature.
Peak Oil: A Graphic Story
The story of peak oil presented as a graphic novel.
Of Yeast, Seeds, Fire and Dancing: The Release of Playing for Time
The evidence people are reading a book you’ve written is enough to make you swoon. Like a dish you’ve spent time cooking that proves to be edible and delicious – times about a million.
What’s so Funny About Climate Change
Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman uses humor to explain carbon tax, cap and trade and the ‘Five Chinas’ theory.
Public Energy Art Kits Push Back Against Consumerism
You have immense powers." That’s one of the messages of Post Carbon Institute’s Public Energy Art Kit (P.E.A.K.) project.
Making Climate Change Graphic
Can the climate change story be told better in pictures? Two recent books attempt just that.
P.E.A.K. We Have Work To Do
I usually hate this kind of thing…I did it because I’m excited about the world we can create.
Introducing YOUR Public Energy Art Kit
Our request is simple: we are asking YOU — activated citizens, community organizers, students, as well as anyone who cares about our future and our relationship to the natural world — to help us get the word out in a BIG way.
Talking Energy Reality
Read on to learn about Leslie Moyer’s work with artists and energy, the undeserved un-sexiness of energy conservation and a particularly mind-blowing uphill car ride.