On the web I ran across the magazine, Resurgence which has an article called Burning Ice by Dave Buckland. The magazine focuses on positive ideas about the theory and practice of good living (we're talking about politics with principles and science with a soul). Among a list of things they write about one is 'permaculture'.
Permaculture? Wikipedia states that the word was coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgreen during the 1970s and is a portmanteau of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture. It started predominantly being about the design of agricultural systems but has moved towards being a more fully holistic design process for creating sustainable human habitats. Today it is both a design system as well as a loosely defined philosophy or lifestyle ethic.
The article Burning Ice describes the charitable organisation Cape Farewell. They want to engage the public in the subject of climate change; they see themselves as pioneers in the cultural response to climate change.
It is felt that the window of opportunity for dealing with climate change is very short, less than 10 years. Working internationally, they bring together artists (that include musicians, ceramicists, composers, architects, engineers), scientists and communicators to communicate the urgency of the global climate challenge. Artists are invited to join the expeditions to the Arctic and to work with scientists on programmes of exhibitions and events. This way they hope to bring about changes of behaviour in an area where governments have perhaps failed.
In September 2008, the Cape Farewell project returns to Disko Bay (Greenland, -69°N/52°W) where big chunks of ice are coming off glaciers. (Lots of photos by Lynn Davis here.) Others from a Flikr site are here.
Gretel Ehrlich 2001 / 78°N 11.2°E stated in a journal* -
"It also occurs to me that the real and the imagined have long since fused here. Truths are relative to the imagination that invents them. It's not the content of experience that we end up with, but the structure of how we know something."
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* Source: http://www.capefarewell.com/art/exhibitions.html
Ice berg photos are from DG. I don't know the original source or geographic location.
Permaculture? Wikipedia states that the word was coined by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgreen during the 1970s and is a portmanteau of permanent agriculture as well as permanent culture. It started predominantly being about the design of agricultural systems but has moved towards being a more fully holistic design process for creating sustainable human habitats. Today it is both a design system as well as a loosely defined philosophy or lifestyle ethic.
The article Burning Ice describes the charitable organisation Cape Farewell. They want to engage the public in the subject of climate change; they see themselves as pioneers in the cultural response to climate change.
It is felt that the window of opportunity for dealing with climate change is very short, less than 10 years. Working internationally, they bring together artists (that include musicians, ceramicists, composers, architects, engineers), scientists and communicators to communicate the urgency of the global climate challenge. Artists are invited to join the expeditions to the Arctic and to work with scientists on programmes of exhibitions and events. This way they hope to bring about changes of behaviour in an area where governments have perhaps failed.
In September 2008, the Cape Farewell project returns to Disko Bay (Greenland, -69°N/52°W) where big chunks of ice are coming off glaciers. (Lots of photos by Lynn Davis here.) Others from a Flikr site are here.
Gretel Ehrlich 2001 / 78°N 11.2°E stated in a journal* -
"It also occurs to me that the real and the imagined have long since fused here. Truths are relative to the imagination that invents them. It's not the content of experience that we end up with, but the structure of how we know something."
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* Source: http://www.capefarewell.com/art/exhibitions.html
Ice berg photos are from DG. I don't know the original source or geographic location.
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