by eab | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog |
The machines used to mine coal are called “earth movers”. I call them “earth destroyers”. You can see them in the distance in this photograph by Edward Burtynsky, from his book Anthropocene, titled Coal Mine #1, North Rhine, Westphalia Germany...
by eab | Jan 5, 2019 | Blog |
Julie Sperling is a mosaic artist we’ve featured before; she tackles tough topics like climate change, plastic pollution, and industrial waste in her mosaic art, and writes a great blog to go with her pieces, with scientific background and details (including...
by eab | Dec 17, 2018 | Blog |
A Green New Deal to a Dead Planet 2018 has been a year of devastating reports about our ecological crises. There was the WWF’s Living Planet Report showing wildlife population declines of 60% globally since 1970; there was the OECD’s Global Material Resources Outlook...
by eab | Dec 12, 2018 | Blog |
Artist Olafur Eliasson has brought 24 blocks (100 tonnes) of ice from Greenland to London for his installation Ice Watch, to coincide with COP24. The exhibit opened yesterday and will last about a week, when all the ice will have melted in the 40-ish degree London...
by eab | Dec 4, 2018 | Blog |
Lu Gang is a Chinese photographer who has spent his career photographing the devastation of industrialized China. A month ago Lu Gang disappeared. The Chinese government is very careful to censor any expose of the country that makes life there look less than rosy. As...
by eab | Dec 3, 2018 | Blog |
This underwater sculpture in Lanzarote, Spain is by Jason deCaires Taylor, and titled “Crossing the Rubicon”. It symbolizes a point of no return, a warning to humanity that runaway climate change could leave us with no way back to a stable climate. This...
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