by Art for Culture Change | Aug 5, 2019 | Blog |
It’s easy, if you can afford a certain lifestyle, to not see the desecrated places. I managed to get though 20 years of my adult life without paying much attention to those nondescript, no-window buildings behind the chain link fences, the dead spaces underneath...
by Art for Culture Change | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog |
“Chinese state media warned that Beijing could cut America off from exotic minerals that are widely used in electric cars and mobile phones. The threat to use China’s rich supply of so-called rare earths as leverage in the conflict has contributed to sharp...
by Art for Culture Change | May 31, 2019 | Blog |
Do you believe the Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects endangered species? If you do, you are wrong. Do you believe wind energy is “clean”? If you do, again, you would be wrong, unless you think “clean” means it’s okay to kill...
by Art for Culture Change | May 16, 2019 | Blog |
On May 9, 2019 Blue Origin — Jeff Bezos’ space exploration company — posted this video of Jeff Bezos speaking at the Going to Space to Benefit Earth event. One of the visions of Blue Origin, as outlined on the web site, and the focus of Mr. Bezos’ presentation is that...
by Art for Culture Change | Apr 29, 2019 | Blog |
Bill McKibben pulls no punches in this excerpt from Falter, his most recent book, as he describes the future that is coming our way for those of us who have so far been spared, and the now for those of us who haven’t. Unfortunately, McKibben has drunk the...
by Art for Culture Change | Apr 16, 2019 | Blog |
This morning I’m imagining what could have been if only we’d kept our animal selves intact… if only we’d never allowed our hearts and minds to be colonized… if only we’d fought harder to protect our habitat… With the help of...
by Art for Culture Change | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog |
Photograph by Tom Hussey, one from his “Reflections” series, in which older people look in the mirror at their younger selves. His photographs make me wonder, as I often do, how I would better prepare for these days of ecological crisis if I could go back...
by Art for Culture Change | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog |
Everyone should force themselves to watch this video from Netflix, a short behind-the-scenes clip of a harrowing scene of walrus who cannot find ice in a melting Arctic, and are forced to rest on land, with horrific consequences. This is just one of many impacts of...
by Art for Culture Change | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog |
I love the cover of the New York Times Magazine, by Pablo Delcan, for this week’s big story, “The Problem with Putting a Price on the End of the World.” The article discusses the challenge with pricing carbon emissions properly so that we use less...
by Art for Culture Change | Apr 5, 2019 | Blog |
In the preface to Columbus and Other Cannibals, Derrick Jensen asks: “why is the dominant culture so excruciatingly, relentlessly, insanely, genocidally, ecocidally, suicidally destructive?” [1] The author of Columbus and Other Cannibals, Jack D. Forbes, goes on to...
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