Crossing the Rubicon

Crossing the Rubicon

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...
Birds Watching

Birds Watching

Artist Jenny Kendler’s bio says she is “an interdisciplinary ecological artist, environmental activist, naturalist & wild forager”. I would add extraordinarily prolific and innovative to that list of descriptors. Diving into Ms. Kendler’s...
The unbearable burden of the technosphere

The unbearable burden of the technosphere

“The technosphere encompasses all of the technological objects manufactured by humans. The technosphere comprises not just our machines, but us humans too, and the professional and social systems by which we interact with technology – factories, schools,...
Totem Pole Journeys

Totem Pole Journeys

A man in the moon prays for protection of the Earth. A bear gets too greedy and damages salmon fish spawning grounds, ruining the salmon fishing in the river. People of all races from all around the world who contribute to climate change. This is the story this Lummi...
Stop Playing

Stop Playing

Lorenzo Quinn continues to speak volumes with his art about the relationship of humans and the planet Earth. This recent work, “Stop Playing”, beautifully expresses the anthropocene, the era of human dominance over the planet in which we now live. As the...