Or a lot of other states on the Eastern seaboard.
Here’s the map of where the art fair yacht SeaFair (The “MegaYacht Venue”!) is going to stop this year:
It very well might be “America’s most versatile and cost-effective art fair venue,” but it sure doesn’t sound like a party.
Read all the goodness at www.expoships.com
This morning’s Telegraph leads with the story of Prince Charles giving the warning that we have “less than 100 months to save the world“.
Wonder what sort of crisis would it take to get a mainstream politician to make a similarly unequivocal statement – one which in the light of new data emerging now on an amost daily basis is, after all, hardly scientifically controversial?
As long as the public continues to doubt the climtate science, as IPSOS Mori polls show they do, politicians remain reluctant to call a stick a stick – though to move swiftly from one metaphor to another, it’s unclear in this case which is the egg and which is the chicken.
In such circumstances, it’s not surprising that the undemocratic medium of green custard will continue to be used.
This from Hyde Or Die:
Bernie Madoff by Yan Pei-Ming, 2009
Hyde or die writes: “For some reason this $100,000 portrait isn’t having any luck at Armory in NY.  Weird.”
Via the Long Now blog, and in celebration of Darwin 200, Seed Magazine presents the 4.6 billion year history of the world condensed into one minute.
SPOILER: Blink and you miss the walk on part by the human race.
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In the month that James Hansen asked for a total moratorium on coal-burning, the Coen Brothers have completed their first advert for The Reality Coalition , a campaign targeting the US coal industry. The coal-based energy industry is one of world’s most significant producers of greenhouse gasses. The Coen’s mock the coal industry’s as yet unproven claims that it can produce “clean coal†power through carbon capture – the untried technology to be used at the new Kingsnorth power station planned by EON. “Clean coal,†goes the ad’s slogan cynically, “harnesses the awesome power of the word ‘clean‘.â€
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This Post was originally posted to Mike Lawler’s ecoTheaer blog on April 25, 2007. We are reposting it here to share this ecoTheater classic with new readers while MIke continues to regain his health. You can read his blog about his ongoing battle with cancer, The “C†Word, by clicking here.
In 1992, American Theatre ran an article called Green Theatre: Confessions of an Eco-reporter, in which Lynn Jacobson traveled to three performing arts companies–Merrimack Repertory in Lowell, MA, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and Dell’Arte Players Company in northern California–and wrote about the work they were doing on the allegedly emerging front of “Green Theatre.”
In the fall of this year my first published foray into “greening” our theaters is slated to appear in the pages of American Theatre too–over fifteen years after Jacobson wrote, at the close of her piece, “Can theatre save the earth? I don’t know. But from sea to polluted sea, I’ve seen it trying.” Well, Jacobson was certainly right about one thing: Theater can’t save the earth–at least not alone. But, it does seem that it can make more of an effort than it has. Because, though Jacobson failed to really take it into account in 1992, the greening of our theater isn’t just about putting on ecologically themed work. It’s also about putting on ecologically friendly work, whether it be new, old, experimental, or otherwise.
In my research, I am struggling to find theater artists out there who are striving for a more sustainable approach to theater production. If you are one, or know of one, get in touch with me–I’d love to hear from you.