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environment
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The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.
Read more: The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.“Works in Progress” highlights artists across a range of disciplines whose work deals with ecological themes. Considering the particular role that artists play in the climate movement, this column shares their voices and provides a glimpse behind the curtain into…
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Birds Watching
Read more: Birds WatchingBirds Watching I, 2018 was created for Storm King Art Center’s Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, in partnership with NRDC, which ran from May–Nov 2018, and featured 100 U.S. climate-threatened species derived from Audubon’s first report. That work was reinstalled…
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Lynn Neuman: Showing How Quickly Plastic Amasses
Read more: Lynn Neuman: Showing How Quickly Plastic AmassesLynn Neuman, director of New York City–based Artichoke Dance, became preoccupied with single-use disposability after she started wondering about waste and who was responsible for it. For some of her performances, she has collected massive quantities of discarded plastics, like…
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The Point is to Change It
Read more: The Point is to Change ItWhen President Trump announced the US departure from the Paris Climate Accord on 1 June 2017, his enjoyment at walking over the efforts of national delegations and hundreds of pressure groups across the world who fought for that deal was…
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Fuck for Forest: Erotic Ecology
Read more: Fuck for Forest: Erotic EcologyFuck for Forest (FFF) is a non-profit environmental organisation founded in 2004 in Norway by Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen. It funds itself through a website of sexually explicit videos and photographs, charging a membership fee for access. A…
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Send it On Disney Channel Project
Read more: Send it On Disney Channel Project“Send It On” is a song recorded by American recording artists Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez from charity project Disney’s Friends for Change. The track’s producers Adam Anders and Peer Åström co-wrote it with Nikki Hassman.…
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Unhappily Ever
Read more: Unhappily EverJeff is an animation storyboard artist from Los Angeles, previously working as an animation artist on several famous Disney movies. He uses his talent to produce work highlighting environmental and social issues worldwide with Disney characters, called Unhappily Ever After.…
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Judy Chicago Launches ‘Create Art for Earth’ Campaign With Help From Jane Fonda
Read more: Judy Chicago Launches ‘Create Art for Earth’ Campaign With Help From Jane FondaJudy Chicago, the pioneering feminist artist who made the iconic 1970s work The Dinner Party, has enjoyed a long and illustrious career rife with critical approval. Now, in anticipation of Earth Day 2020, Chicago is launching a new project called…
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#NoFutureNoChildren
Read more: #NoFutureNoChildrenAs leaders across the world are getting ready to gather together to discuss climate change—and what to do about it—at the UN Climate Change Summit in New York next week, hundreds of young people across the world are going on…
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#TeamTrees
Read more: #TeamTreesWhen And Where Will #TeamTrees Plant 21.5 Million Crowdfunded Trees? Two months after reaching one of the most ambitious crowdfunding goals in YouTube history, #TeamTrees is getting closer to delivering on behalf of its 800,000+ unique donors. According to a…