by Art for Culture Change | Mar 31, 2019 | Blog |
Russian photographer Yuri Kozyrev and Dutch photographer Kadir van Lohuizen joined forces to document the industrialization and militarization of the Arctic. Their photographs are currently at an exhibition, Arctic: New Frontier, in London’s Saatchi Gallery....
by Art for Culture Change | Mar 31, 2019 | Blog |
The catastrophic flooding across the midwest isn’t getting much coverage on the coasts, but it is a multibillion $ disaster for multiple states and indigenous nations. Over a million wells may be contaminated. Farmers will lose their farms. The top soil is...
by Art for Culture Change | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog |
A recent article in the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound describes legislation to make shipping fossil fuels through the Salish Sea safer. It’s all about tug boats and the speed of ships and modeling risk. At no point in the discussion–either in the article, or...
by Art for Culture Change | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog |
All oppression is related to resource extraction. Whether that resource is black Africans forced into slavery, a massive energy resource that powered settler-colonial America…. or the resource is women’s reproductive power, exploited by men who restrict...
by Art for Culture Change | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog |
I have changed the name of this web site from “Art for Climate Change” to “Art for Culture Change” to better reflect the need to change our entire settler colonial culture, our entire way of life that is based on extraction and consumption....
by eab | Feb 23, 2019 | Blog |
Sometimes the news is so sickeningly awful, so disgusting, so disheartening, I can’t even breathe. “A report by cabinet ministers in Botswana has recommended lifting a four-year hunting ban and the introduction of elephant culling. After months of public...
by eab | Feb 23, 2019 | Blog |
One of the reasons we’re killing the planet is because we prefer our delusions to what is real. For our own comfort, we convince ourselves we’re merely “developing natural resources” rather than understand we are committing ecocide. Now that it’s become increasingly...
by eab | Feb 16, 2019 | Blog |
Julie Sperling’s latest work is “In The Belly Of The Whale”. She writes: “In November 2018, a dead sperm whale washed up on an Indonesian shore. It had 5.9 kilograms of plastic waste in its stomach. Drinking cups, pop bottles, flip flops,...
by eab | Feb 15, 2019 | Blog |
The Green New Deal resolution contains a plan that calls for solar, wind, and EVs, for so-called renewable energy, and an overhaul of our transportation system. That means massive amounts of materials, like copper, lithium, cobalt, iron ore, and other minerals and...
by Art for Culture Change | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog |
For those of you (or your friends and family) going gaga over the Green New Deal, this is the most important article you can read: Global energy transition powers surge in demand for metals, by Nelson Bennett for Business In Vancouver. Aside from the fact that the...
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