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Arcola Meets â€˜This is Rubbishâ€™

March 24, 2010ArcolaArcola Theatre, Ark Co, Evening Event, Feast, Fine Food, Food Waste, Initiative, Org Uk, Pangolin, Poppy, Rubbish, Shout, Soil Particles, Soily, Sustainable Food, Vegetables, Volunteers, Waiters, Waitresses, Watch This Space

Reprinted from http://www.thisisrubbish.org.uk/?p=357

This is Rubbish are very pleased and excited to be collaborating with The Arcola Theatre and Pangolinâ€™s Ark. On Sunday the 11th April The Arcola Theatre, This is Rubbish and Pangolinâ€™s Ark will host a day of sustainable food themed talks, activities and workshops, followed by a fine food waste and sustainably sourced feast.

Buy tickets for the feast here

We are currently scheduling the workshops and a detailed program of the day will be released soon. Tickets for the feast will also be on sale in the very near future. Watch this space!

If you fancy getting involved with a crew chopathon and baking session, weâ€™re looking for volunteers to help prepare and cook the food on the Saturday, and volunteers to help prepare and serve the food during the evening event on Sunday. The soil service (waitresses and waiters) will be dressed up as soil particles, salad and vegetables and service will be very interactive and incredibly earthy!

Give us a shout if you are interested on helping out on day that is set to be super soily and sustainably wonderful.

info@thisisrubbish.org.uk

poppy@pangolins-ark.co.uk

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Did #pm2un Tweet make Gordon to go to Copenhagen?

September 24, 2009news, RSA Arts & EcologyCampaigns, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Conference, Copenhagen, Couple Of Days, Deliberative Democracy, Ecology, Gordon Brown, Government Support, Green Tv, Home Insulation, Labour Party, Last Moment, Momentum, Nays, Pledge, Prime Minster, RSA Arts & Ecology, Rubbish, S Poll, Suggestion, Tweet, World Climate, World Leaders, Yeas

I was bloggingÂ last week in response to green.tvâ€™s suggestion that there were too many climate campaigns. My view was that it wasnâ€™t that there were too many, but that maybe they werenâ€™t reaching the right people.

Last week the websiteÂ BeThatChange.com were pushing hard on a campaign on Twitter,#pm2un, trying to persuade Gordon Brown to commit to go to the COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen. At the time this seemed like a great example of a well-targeted campaign.

Though itâ€™s not that unusual for leaders not to commit to attending this sort of conference until the last moment, BeThatChange had cleverly spotted an opportunity there. It looks rubbish for Brown to be claiming to be leading the agenda at Copenhagen when heâ€™s not even committed to going himself. A couple of days after BeThatChange cranked up the heat with their #pm2un campaign,Â @EdMilibandMP tweeted aÂ survey on his Edâ€™s Pledge site, asking visitors what their priorities for Copenhagen were. Miliband offered the following options to chose from:

1) the Prime Minister attending Copenhagen to help deliver a deal

2) doing more to provide home insulation in the UK

3) more government support to create green jobs

Whatever you think about the yeas and nays ofÂ deliberative democracy, when I looked on Friday, â€œthe Prime Minster attending Copenhagen to help deliver a dealâ€ had received 93% of the vote. How much of that was due to the BeThatChange.com campaign is hard to calculate, but I suspect that the question was even on Milibandâ€™s poll suggests that the original #pm2un campaign was bang on.

If anything, I suppose itâ€™s possible the Labour Party saw how potentially embarrassing such a campaign could be if it gained much more momentum, and instead turned it to their advantage. Either way the news came through late last night, less than 48 hours before BeThatChangeâ€™s next #pm2un twitterstorm:

Gordon Brown urges world leaders to attend climate change talk

Whatever did happen behind closed doors, it was nice work all round, really.

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The new landscape photography: land and despoilation

July 20, 2009news, RSA Arts & EcologyAdam Hochschild, Baloji, Congo, Consequences, Darren Almond, Drc, Ecology, Edward Burtynsky, Katanga, King Leopold, Landscape Photography, Landscapes, Mongrel, Naoya Hatakeyama, Paris Photo, Photographers, Photographs, Pictet, Premise, Quarries, Quarry, Rubbish, Sammy, Shortlist, sustainability, Tantalum

Sammy Baloiji is one of twelve photographers shortlisted for theÂ 2009 Prix Pictet, a prize for photography about sustainability. The premise behind his series is simple – to superimpose photographs from the Congoâ€™s colonial past over modern photographs of the consequences of that history. The Congo has been well and truly raped for minerals and other resources over the last century; for that seeÂ Adam Hochschildâ€™sÂ King Leopoldâ€™s Ghost. Also this blog post about Mongrelâ€™sÂ Tantalum Memorial.

The theme for the 2009 Prix Pictet was â€œEarthâ€. The 2009 shortlist is really phenomenal and includes work from the great Darren Almond, Yao Luâ€™s remarkable Chinese landscapes constructed from rubbish won theÂ 2008 Paris Photo Prize, Edward Burtynskyâ€™s scary/beautiful quarry photographs, and this series, again from quarries, from Naoya Hatakeyama:
Blast #5707 by Naoya Hatakeyama, 1998 Japan

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