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Sonidos de la Tierra â€“ Community and social development through music

July 18, 2012Cultura21Aim, Alliances, Avina Foundation, Berlin Germany, Copenhagen Denmark, Countryside, Cozzolino, Earth, Francesca, Garbage, Good Citizens, Groupings, International Institutions, Kagan, Kajsa, Koefoed, Mexico City, Music Schools, Musical Education, New Economy, Oleg, Paris France, Participants, Rana, Recycled Instruments, Sacha, Scarce Resources, Vitality

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Sonidos de la Tierra (Sounds from the Earth) is a project for children and young, created by Luis SzarÃ¡n,through the formation of music schools, musical groupings and cultural associations, it facilitates the shortcut to the musical education to more than 3.000 participants of scarce resources, in communities of the Paraguayan countryside.

Sonidos de la Tierra, is based on the concept of â€œeducation through artsâ€ and began in 2002 in 18 towns, with support from the AVINA Foundation. Today, with alliances with more than 100 other local, national and international institutions, both public and private, the program reaches over 72 communities throughout Paraguay.

In Cateura, one of the many communities where Sonidos de la Tierra has music schools, started a project whose aim is to build musical instruments out of garbage, this city is one of the poorest in Paraguay, and a great amount of garbage is sent daily there.Â People who work in this project say that they arenÂ´t â€œlooking for good musicians, but for good citizensâ€. Last month, the Recycled Instruments Orchestra from Cateura performed at the Entreperneurship Forum in the New Economy during the Rio+20 summit.

To know more about the project, you can visit http://www.sonidosdelatierra.org.py/

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One Plastic Beach

February 16, 2011newsAmp, Byline, Garbage, Gyre, Iframe, Jewelry, Judith Selby, Northern California, Plastic Debris, Plastic Pollution, Prints, Richard Lang, Sculptures, Wikipedia

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Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas.

To learn more about their work, visit:

beachplastic.com/
plasticforever.blogspot.com/

and to learn more about the Gyre:
en.wikipedia.org/â€‹wiki/â€‹Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch

A Silver Sheen to . . . well, you know.

June 23, 2010newsBirds, Bp, Bullshit, Catastrophe, Colbert Report, Collapse, Daily Show, Garbage, Gloss, Laughter, Local Industries, Massacres, Massive Flow, Natural Fibers, Onion, Silver Lining, Silver Sheen, Spill, Tools Of Trade, Wrong Way

Yes. So.

Garbage didnâ€™t work. Natural fibers were rejected. Booming school has apparently been a failure. In the meantime, an ever-increasing parade of oil-soaked birds and the collapse of local industries.
What else can we do but laugh?

If there is a silver lining or sheen or gloss or whatever to the gulf spill, itâ€™s that the insanely large catastrophe has spawned some of the best ecological humor in recent years.

Donâ€™t EVEN try to take that the wrong way.

Pro comedy players like UCB Theater, The Daily Show and the Colbert Report have been defending ecosystems and decrying BP with their sharp and witty tools of trade. Most memorably, The Onion suggests a Massive Flow of Bullshit from BP Headquarters will drown us all.

Itâ€™s times like these that laughter literally heals. Which is not to say: it scrubs oily birds. Rather: it keeps ecological massacres such as these from driving you insane.

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APInews: Artists in the Great Pacfic Garbage Patch

October 30, 2009newsApex, Beaches, Bill Weaver, Cantv, Chris Jordan, Garbage, Jarvis, Media Artists, Midway Atoll, Piles, Plastic Trash, Quantities, Skeleton, Skeletons, Sloan, Stomachs, Tiny Bits, Victoria, Writing Poetry, Yes Magazine

Five media artists are on Midway Atoll near the apex of the North Pacific Gyre, a huge circular current in which vast quantities of floating plastic trash are trapped. Artists Chris Jordan, Bill Weaver, Jan Vozenilek, Victoria Sloan Jordan and Manuel Maqueda are exploring the beaches, shooting photographs and video, writing poetry, and trying to respond to what they find, says Brooke Jarvis in YES! Magazine (9/16/09). The island of trash is called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area twice the size of Texas where tiny bits of plastic outweigh zooplankton seven to one. found thousands of bird skeletons, piles of plastic where there stomachs had been. In some cases, the skeleton had entirely biodegraded; the plastic remained, unchanged. The article is linked to the project’s Web site. See video on CANtv.

via APInews: Artists in the Great Pacfic Garbage Patch .