Projects tagged
Natural Resources & Energy
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Welcome to the Cantareira Desert
Read more: Welcome to the Cantareira DesertA grey minivan rattled through São Paulo’s hilly suburbs, loaded with spray cans, paint rollers, buckets and a ladder as five street artists drove to the Atibainha river, rap lyrics blaring from their speakers. On the sweltering afternoon of 26…
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How Bali punks Navicula took on the palm oil industry
Read more: How Bali punks Navicula took on the palm oil industryIn Indonesia, a loud and politically committed generation of punk bands are shaking big business – and getting results The briefing took place in a small commercial office in Jakarta, with no insulation from the heat, smog or noise of…
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Film and Video Games: A Docugame
Read more: Film and Video Games: A DocugameFROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: ” While filming a documentary about divisive oil refinery ventures in the subzero cold of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the director David Dufresne said he wasn’t considering only pollution in that Canadian boomtown or the vast…
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Global Earth Exchange
Read more: Global Earth ExchangeOn Saturday, June 22, a group of friends will meet at one of the more than 4,000 natural gas wells that have been drilled by hydrofracking in Pennsylvania. Instead of picket signs, however, they’ll be carrying a picnic basket. For…
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Project 929: Mapping the Solar
Read more: Project 929: Mapping the SolarProject 929: Mapping the Solar Augmented Bike Ride as Performative Intervention May 19th through 29th, 2013 http://www.delappe.net) will be creating a new work of DIY durational performance which involves riding a specially equipped “long-tail” touring bicycle 400+ miles dragging pieces…
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Teilchenbeschleuniger
Read more: Teilchenbeschleuniger“Teilchenbeschleuniger” ist ein investigatives Kunstprojekt des Künstlerduos 431art, welches Atomenergie kritisch reflektiert. Der “Teilchenbeschleuniger” verteilt Teilchen namens “Jülicher Törtchen”, “Brokdorfer Mürbchen” oder “Muffins Fukushima” an die Bevölkerung. Eine Petition an die Bundesregierung und ein Mailing an die Kanzlerin sowie die…
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Nun, 82, ‘shut down NUCLEAR facility after breaking in and splattering uranium complex with blood’
Read more: Nun, 82, ‘shut down NUCLEAR facility after breaking in and splattering uranium complex with blood’By WILLIAM J. BROAD With flashlights and bolt cutters, the three pacifists defied barbed wire as well as armed guards, video cameras and motion sensors at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation in Tennessee early on July 28, a Saturday. The…
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Rock The Reactors
Read more: Rock The ReactorsFounded in 2006, Rock The Reactors enlists the art and fashion community in support of organizations working to shut down the Indian Point nuclear power plant in NY. Shut Down Indian Point with Fashion! External sources: http://www.rockthereactors.com https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rock-The-Reactors/221619307889752
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Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling Protesters
Read more: Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling ProtestersDAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Activists with a big fake polar bear have occupied a Shell service station in the Swiss resort of Davos to protest Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s oil drilling in the Arctic. About 25 activists from around Europe…
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Toilet Strike: Matt Damon (Water.org)
Read more: Toilet Strike: Matt Damon (Water.org)For the launch of a new organization fighting to end the water crisis, Matt Damon, Co-founder of Water.org, has produced a video using humor to shed light on the issue of access to clean water. In the spoof, he holds…