Clean Energy

Land Art Generator Initiative

August 1, 2012Cultura2128th August, Berlin Germany, Clean Energy, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Design Competition, Francesca, Free Copies, Initiative, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Land Art, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Rana, Renewable Energy Technologies, Sacha, Staten Island Ny, Vitality

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Saturday 28th August 2012. Staten Island, NY.

LAGI invites the general public to join them for an anonymous preview of the submissions to the 2012 LAGI NYC design competition for Freshkills Park. They will also be providing free copies ofÂ the new version of A Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies, a book that details all of the different methods by which clean energy can be safely harnessed from nature.

For more information and to download the book, please visit www.landartgenerator.org

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

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U.S. Energy Secretary Chu on The Avengers

May 29, 2012Ashden DirectoryAmbitious Agenda, Avengers, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Dependence On Foreign Oil, Economic Opportunity, Energy Secretary, Global Competition, Gutman, Interviews News, New Jobs, Obama, Robert Butler, Secretary Of Energy, Six Ways, Steven Chu, Tesseract, Twitter, U S Energy, World Sense

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Kellie Gutman writes:

Steven Chu, the 12th Secretary of Energy for the United States, has a post on his Facebook page about the new movie, The Avengers. Though his friends are not listed, he does have 18,963 ‘likes’ on his page. Chu lists his job:

As Secretary of Energy, proudly carrying out President Obama’s ambitious agenda to invest in alternative and renewable energy, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and create millions of new jobs.

About The Avengers Â he says:

‘[It] focuses on a new, limitless clean energy source called ‘The Tesseract.”… While the “Tesseract” may be fictional, the real-life global competition over clean energy is growing increasingly intense, as countries around the world sense a huge economic opportunity AND the opportunity for cleaner air, water, and a healthier planet…’

â€œashdenizen blog and twitter are consistently among the best sources for information and reflection on developments in the field of arts and climate change in the UKâ€ (2020 Network)

ashdenizen is edited by Robert Butler, and is the blog associated with the Ashden Directory, a website focusing on environment and performance.
The Ashden Directory is edited by Robert Butler and Wallace Heim, with associate editor Kellie Gutman. The Directory includes features, interviews, news, a timeline and a database of ecologically – themed productions since 1893 in the United Kingdom. Our own projects include ‘New Metaphors for Sustainability’, ‘Flowers Onstage’ and ‘Six ways to look at climate change and theatre’.

The Directory has been live since 2000.

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Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies

February 24, 2012Green Public ArtArt Consultant, Art Studies, Artist Selection, Career Studio, Clean Energy, Creative Community, Design Theories, Development And Management, Energy Future, Hues, Land Art, Leed Certified Buildings, Mid Career, Photovoltaics, Public Art Installations, Public Art Project, Renewable Energy Technologies, Studio Artists, Thin Films, University Of Southern California

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This month the Land Art Generator Initiative released a free Field Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies. The first edition handbook will likely serve as a useful resource for artists and anyone else interested in a clean energy future. LAGI makes special note that â€œsome of the more interesting examples that may be applicable as a medium for public art installations are the translucent thin films which can be flexible and offer interesting hues and textures, piezoelectric generators that capture vibration energy, and concentrated photovoltaics, which allow for interesting play with light.â€

The second edition (scheduled release unknown), will include pros and cons, lifecycle carbon costs, and more detailed diagrams of the technologies.

Rebecca Ansert, founder of Green Public Art, is an art consultant who specializes in artist solicitation, artist selection, and public art project management for both private and public agencies. She is a graduate of the masterâ€™s degree program in Public Art Studies at the University of Southern California and has a unique interest in how art can demonstrate green processes or utilize green design theories and techniques in LEED certified buildings.

Green Public Art is a Los Angeles-based consultancy that was founded in 2009 in an effort to advance the conversation of public artâ€™s role in green building. The consultancy specializes in public art project development and management, artist solicitation and selection, creative community involvement and knowledge of LEED building requirements.

Green Public Art also works with emerging and mid-career studio artists to demystify the public art process. The consultancy acts as a resource for artists to receive one-on-one consultation before, during, and after applying for a public art project. Go to Green Public Art

Land Art Generator Initiative design competition

February 6, 2012Cultura21, Open CallsBerlin Germany, Clean Energy, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Design Brief, Design Competition, Dot Org, Ecological Restoration, Educational Programming, Electrical Grid, Energy Generation, Environmental Sustainability, Francesca, Fresh Kills Landfill, Generating Electricity, Human Impact On The Earth, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Land Art, Landscape Architects, Manhattan Skyline, Mexico City, Oleg, Paris France, Public Art Installations, Public Artwork, Public Concern, Rana, Recreational Opportunities, Sacha, Sculpture, Urban Planners, Vitality

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The Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) aims at designing public art installations that have an additional benefit of large scale clean energy generation. Each sculpture can continuously distribute clean energy into the electrical grid and thus potentially provide power to thousands of homes.

In 2012 the Land Art Generator Initiative holds a design competition for a site within Freshkills Park (the former Fresh Kills Landfill) together with New York Cityâ€™s Department of Parks & Recreation in New York City.

â€œAt 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park will be almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park developed in New York City in over 100 years. The transformation of what was formerly the worldâ€™s largest landfill into a productive and beautiful cultural destination will make the park a symbol of renewal and an expression of how our society can restore balance to its landscape.

In addition to providing a wide range of recreational opportunities, including many uncommon in the city, the parkâ€™s design, ecological restoration and cultural and educational programming will emphasize environmental sustainability and a renewed public concern for our human impact on the earth.â€ â€“

FRESHKILLS PARK

LAGI 2012 is an ideas competition to design a site-specific public artwork that combines beauty with utility of generating electricity.
The beauty of the reclaimed landscape and the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline are promising settings for an aesthetic and sustainable urban planning of the area.

The competition is open to everyone. Designers, artists, engineers, architects, landscape architects, university students, urban planners, scientists are encouraged to send their submissions.

For more information and the design brief see http://landartgenerator.org/competition.html

If there are further questions, please send an email to lagi [at] landartgenerator [dot] org.

Cultura21 is a transversal, translocal network, constituted of an international level grounded in several Cultura21 organizations around the world.

Cultura21â€²s international network, launched in April 2007, offers the online and offline platform for exchanges and mutual learning among its members.

The activities of Cultura21 at the international level are coordinated by a team representing the different Cultura21 organizations worldwide, and currently constituted of:

– Sacha Kagan (based in LÃ¼neburg, Germany) and Rana Ã–ztÃ¼rk (based in Berlin, Germany)
– Oleg Koefoed and Kajsa Paludan (both based in Copenhagen, Denmark)
– Hans Dieleman (based in Mexico-City, Mexico)
– Francesca Cozzolino and David Knaute (both based in Paris, France)

Cultura21 is not only an informal network. Its strength and vitality relies upon the activities of several organizations around the world which are sharing the vision and mission of Cultura21

Go to Cultura21

$10,000 in prize money for Climate Fix Flicks

January 17, 2012news, Open CallsAnn Henderson Sellers, Australian Film, Clean Energy, Climate Scientists, Creative Boundaries, Energy Future, Film And Television, Film Competition, Film Makers, Film Submissions, Flicks, I Robot, Macquarie University, Monash University, Positive Messages, Prize Money, Professor Tim, Television Professionals, Tim Flannery, University Of Melbourne

Climate scientists from Macquarie University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University have launched a short film competition, Green Screen: Climate Fix Flicks.

Professors Tim Flannery, Lesley Hughes and Ann Henderson-Sellers are seeking film submissions of between 30 seconds and five minutes that communicate positive messages about a zero or low carbon, clean energy future. Fifteen films will be shortlisted and publicly screened in Sydney around the Australian Film Festival in March 2012. Entries will be judged by a panel of well-known artists, film-makers and scientists including Kimble Rendall (Matrix and I, Robot) and Professor Tim Flannery.

The winning entry will receive $5000, up to five films will be awarded â€˜highly commendedâ€™ prizes of $500 each, and there is a peopleâ€™s choice award worth $2500. Participants are encouraged to push their creative boundaries! This competition is a great opportunity to have work seen by high profile film and television professionals as well as audiences around the country.

Deadline for submissions is February 10^th 2012.

See www.greenscreen.org.au for further details and official entry form..

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BP arts sponsorship: can Tate afford it? | John Sauven, Greenpeace UK | Culture | guardian.co.uk

July 5, 2010newsAcceptability, Alternative Energy, Bp, Clean Energy, Corporate Sponsorship, Energy Business, Environmental Resistance, Greenpeace, Greenpeace Uk, Guardian Co Uk, Industry Groups, Infancy, Legitimate Targets, Lord Browne, Modern Tate, Nicholas Serota, Plaything, Public Anger, Rubbish Tip, Sources Of Pollution, Tate Modern, Uk Culture

More from the Guardian on the relationship of BP to the Tate Modern…

Tate director Nicholas Serota needs to consider this risk carefully. Does his institution want to be associated with one of the world’s biggest single sources of pollution? One that has actively lobbied to undermine clean energy, pouring huge sums into industry groups that campaign to lower carbon taxes and weaken climate legislation? BP’s alternative energy business is a plaything of former boss Lord Browne that has been consigned to the corporate rubbish tip. For these reasons and others, BP is certain to remain the focus of environmental resistance and public anger for years to come. Similarly, those who choose to lend the company an air of acceptability by receiving corporate sponsorship will continue to be seen as legitimate targets for protest around the world. This movement is still in its infancy, but will only gather in strength.

BP arts sponsorship: can Tate afford it? | John Sauven, Greenpeace UK | Culture | guardian.co.uk.

In Case You’re Wondering what it means #COP15

December 19, 2009COP15, newsChina, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Deal, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Conference, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Economic Transition, Emissions, Energy Development, Global Action, Global Fund, Global Temperatures, Grist, Obama, Pledges, Provisions, United States

Here is a good summary of points from Grist.com

The Copenhagen Accord contains these provisions that President Obama called a start to global action to solve climate change:

1) A commitment by developed nations to invest $30 billion over the next three years to help developing nations adapt to climate change and pursue clean energy development.

2) A provisional commitment by developed nations to develop a long-term $100 billion global fund by 2020 to assist developing nations in responding to climate change and become part of the clean energy economic transition.

3) A goal to pursue emissions reductions that are sufficient to keep the rise in global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius.

4) Pledges by nations to commit to concrete emissions reductions, though the specific levels of reduction were not set.

5) A general goal to subject participating countries to international review of their progress under the accord.

6) Diplomatic space for the United States and China to work together to solve climate change. A commitment to complete an assessment of the effectiveness of the accord in reducing emissions by the end of 2015.

Full Article HERE

Video Games + Sustainability

September 2, 2009newsBrain Fitness, Catalysts, Clean Energy, Creatures, Dance Routines, Eco, Educational Game, Extinction, Financial Planning, Global Warming, How To Save The World, Industrialization, Perils, Policy Decisions, Pollution, Science Policy, Sustainability Strategies, Sustainable Living, Video Game, Video Games

Video games exist for improving brain fitness, financial planning, and learning dance routines, so why not for sustainable living? The field of video games that teach sustainability strategies appears to be slowly blossoming.

PowerUp the Game by IBM teaches kids how to save the world by bring clean energy to communities.
CO2FX is a web based multi-user educational game which explores the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions.
Majesco Entertainment’s “Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest” promote awareness of the perils of “â€¦over-industrialization, deforestation, pollution, extinction and global warming.”

Post your favorite environmental video game below.

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APInews: Land Art Initiative Emerges in United Arab Emirates

July 17, 2009newsArchitect, Architects, Art Installations, Art Sculpture, Clean Energy, Cultural Exchange, Ecological Art, Electrical Grid, Land Art, Open Competition, Pbs, Pittsburgh Pa, Related Arts, Research Phase, Sponsorship, Tavis Smiley, Tavissmiley, Uae, United Arab Emirates, United Emirates

Land Art Initiative Emerges in United Arab EmiratesA new initiative in the United Arab Emirates aims to embed land/ecological art installations across the region, continuously distributing clean energy into the electrical grid. The intent of the Land Art Generator Initiative LAGI is that each land art sculpture will have the potential to provide power to up to 50,000 homes in the UAE. Directed by artist Elizabeth Monoian and architect Robert Ferry and sponsored by the Society for Cultural Exchange, a nonprofit in Pittsburgh, Pa., LAGI is in a research phase, seeking further sponsorship. At the conclusion of 2010, the initiative plans to have pragmatic and comprehensive site/art proposals that will arise from an open competition to which artists, scientists, engineers and architects will be encouraged to submit ideas. See the blog section of the site bLAGI for related arts examples. There is a video about the project on the Web site of the Tavis Smiley Show: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/voices/656.html. Thanks, Land Arts listserv.

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