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Between art and environment: Case studies from Thailand, Malaysia and India

March 6, 2012Cultura21Anuradha Mathur, Asia Europe Foundation, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Cozzolino, Dilip, Doi, Environment Case Studies, Everyday Life, Facets, Fluidity, Francesca, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Land And Sea, Mexico City, Oleg, Open Perspective, Paris France, Rana, Sacha, Sustainable Development Issues, Tasik Chini, Traditional Knowledge, Urban Settlements, Vitality

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The case studies are part of an Asia-Europe Foundation commissioned research project entitled â€œLinking the Arts to Environment and Sustainable Development Issuesâ€.

Thailand: In Doi Saket, an artistsâ€™ residency programme brings together local communities and artists to reflect on diverse facets of everyday life to gain a more open perspective about their positions in the contemporary landscape. Read more on Culture360.org: Click here
Mumbai, India: Artist designers Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha break paradigms by denouncing rigidity and embracing fluidity to inspire harmonious postcolonial contemplation on the relationship between land and sea to better plan urban settlements. Read more on Culture360.org: Click here
Malaysia: In Tasik Chini, an NGO is building capacity to empower local communities to document their traditional knowledge and actively participate in the management and restoration planning process of their immediate environment. Read more on Culture360.org: Click here

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)

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Barbizon Lighting Company’s New Light Initiative

December 2, 2011Announcements, LDIBusiness Model, Educational Materials, Efficient Solutions, Energy Consumption, Existing System, Facets, Factual Information, Lighting Company, Lighting Industry, Lighting System, Lighting Systems, Operational Efforts, Overwhelming Task, Resnick, Staff Technician, Sustainability Plan, Sustainable Practices, Tailor, Technical Director, Television Studios

Barbizon Lighting Company has rolled out a new program called New LightÂ Initiative. The “NLI” team is working within our organization to implementÂ sustainable practices into all facets of BarbizonÂ¹s operations. We areÂ also developing educational materials to be used both internally toÂ promote sustainable practices within Barbizon and externally to educateÂ our customers and the industry.

The lighting systems in theatres, television studios, and even in housesÂ of worship are among the least energy-efficient parts of those buildings.Â Cutting energy consumption, whether in a new building or throughout anÂ existing system, can be an overwhelming task for a facilities manager,Â technical director, or staff technician to undertake on their own. That isÂ why many in the industry rely on BarbizonÂ¹s expertise to help them createÂ a sustainability plan that is tailor-made for a specific facilityÂ¹s needsÂ and usage.

Barbizon has over 60 years experience in the lighting industry and ourÂ staff, including a full-time LEED-accredited professional,Â understand the technology and benefits of the wealth of products availableÂ as well as the application challenges of a lighting system.Â Barbizon is uniquely positioned to provide you with the energy efficientÂ solutions for the entire lighting system meeting your technological andÂ design requirements.

“Barbizon’s commitment to sustainable practices encompasses our ownÂ operational efforts as well as encouraging sustainability in our industryÂ through research and education. Barbizon’s business model has always beenÂ about providing our customers with access to products and information fromÂ which they can make choices.” Jonathan Resnick, President – BarbizonÂ Lighting Company

“Sustainability in any form is most successful as a choice. Our New LightÂ Initiative has been created to ensure that people have the factualÂ information needed to make good choices in sustainability.” SteveÂ Cullipher, Barbizon Florida Systems Manager, LEED AP

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Growing Communities pick-up point in the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden

February 26, 2011ArcolaCarbon Emissions, Carrots, Community Groups, Curve, Eating Habits, Environmental Damage, Facets, Food Miles, Food System, Guarantees, Healthy Eating, Local Community, Organic Box Scheme, Pollution, Seasonal Produce, Social Enterprise, Strands, sustainability, Vegetables, Water Efficiency

Sustainability embodies many facets; entwined in the common strands of energy and water efficiency and cutting carbon emissions sits food. As a nation a lot of the food we consume is non-seasonal and has to be imported. This has a tremendous impact on the environment through transportation pollution from increased food miles. We could easily make changes to our eating habits and more carefully choose the foods we eat to include more fresh locally produced seasonal produce. Making this change would have many benefits, such as supporting the local economy, reducing food miles and therefore environmental damage, involving local community groups in producing the food, and encouraging healthy eating.

In Hackney, this change is made easier for you by the work that Growing Communities does. It is a social enterprise which runs community-led box schemes that build community-led alternatives to the current damaging food system. In short, community groups grow vegetables which are delivered in boxes to various pick-up points in Hackney which you then go and collect. How does this work? You choose the size of your box, you place a standing order, and this guarantees you a box of fresh vegetables each week! This is a fantastic idea which means you are eating seasonal locally produced food, from carrots to cucumbers and leeks to beetroot, and lies at the core of the importance of sustainability.

We would like to know your thoughts of this scheme and whether you would use a Growing Communities pick-up point in the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden.

If you would like to know more about the scheme or to place an order, click on the link below:
http://www.growingcommunities.org/organic-box-scheme/pick-up-points/

If you are interested in a possible pick up point in the Dalston Eastern Curve Garden, please email: boxscheme@growingcommunities.org

Below is a link to the Eastern Curve garden where you could soon be collecting your veg boxes from!
http://www.dalstongarden.com/

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