As Climate Changes, We Need the Arts More than Ever

By Richard Heinberg, Ensia

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

By Wendy Wheeler, Dark Mountain Project

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

By Nancy Averett, Resilience.org

Two California artists are creating public sculptures that heal damaged ecosystems and eventually disappear back into nature.

Peak Oil: A Graphic Story

By Stuart McMillen, Stuart MacMillen Blog

 The story of peak oil presented as a graphic novel.

Of Yeast, Seeds, Fire and Dancing: The Release of Playing for Time

By Lucy Neal, Transition Culture

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

By Greg Dalton, Jonah Sachs, Climate One

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

By Leo Stout, Center for a New American Dream

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

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

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

By Asher Miller, Steve Lambert, Resilience.org

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

By Leslie Moyer, Energy Reality (P.E.A.K.)

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.