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The first ever Designers Accord ‘Town Hall’ was held in the UKÂ Brighton, Thursday 10th March 2011.
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A breath of life by Fraser Ross
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A breath of life 2010 [Laboratory Report]
This is an expedition involving the artificial study of plant life.
Materials – Flexinol (shape changing wire), recycled electronic components, specimen jars.
Ten propagated flowers from a living plant. Each flower has a ‘death state’, until human interaction triggers its ‘life state’ and just for a brief moment, you may recapture the flowers in full bloom. When the viewer blows into the specimen jars, each flower begins a shape change. Blowing is the appropriate interaction as trees and plants grow on carbon dioxide.
Every living thing needs a home, plants change themselves to survive in their habitat.
Canadian Youth Delegation Market Action #COP16
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirrjjhv64I
The Canadian Youth Delegation auctions off everything from our future, to the forests, air, water, and pollution credits to draw attention to the environmental issues facing Canada at COP 16
eARTh Flash Flood in New Mexico
The Santa Fe EARTH event, put on by 350.org and the Santa Fe Art Institute, shows how the Santa Fe River could look if there was water running through it. With global warming decreasing snow melt, Santa Fe is running out of water. This river is one of the 10 most endangered in North America. Over a 1,000 people came out and held up blue painted pieces of cardboard or tarps as a satellite passed over.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGExEIYXK58
To answer the obvious question: no, we don’t think these are going to have an immediate political effect, turn Cancun upside down, cause Jim Inhofe to change his mind. But we do think that they are one key part in the work of building a movement big enough to matter. And I hope you enjoy looking at them—I sure do.We’ve got more allies, of more types, out there than we sometimes remember.
– Bill McKibben
Read McKibben’s guest Blog on this event at Climeprogress.org
Fossil of the Day for Nov 29th – Day 1 – #COP16
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdC0pvkevEU
The world famous fossil of the day returns for the UNFCCC COP16 Climate Talks taking place in Cancun, Mexico.
OneClimate will be broadcasting live from the talks – you can take part here – http://www.oneclimate.net/cancun
YouTube – Fossil of the Day – Nov 30th 2010 – Cancun, Mexico COP16.
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
Christine and Margaret Wertheim’s Coral Reef Project is another one of the CSPA’s favorites to date. It combines creative endeavors seamlessly with scientific thought and a social initiative. It brings to light issues of global warming and ecological sustainability without being didactic.
If you’re in New York city, you have a month left to view it at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. That exhibition closes in early January.
If you are in Washington DC, please visit the temporary exhibit on the the First Floor of the Sant Ocean Hall, OCean Focus Gallery at the National Museum of Natural History. It is on display through April 24th of next year 2011.
Margaret Wetheim’s TED Talk
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGEDHMF4rLI
At The Science Gallery in Dublin
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsKhi0x4Ni41
A recent interview with Margaret Wertheim
View the video at Smithsonian.com