The Last Tree is a transdisciplinary studio based in Australia working with businesses, communities and festival throwers to create sustainable systems.
Steve McPherson is an artist and lecturer based on the South East Kent coast, who uses marine plastic to create works that question the ambiguous histories of the polluting lost objects he finds.
The website of Fran Crowe, an artist involved in wildlife, ecology, landscape and conservation
My art& ecology notebook documents a real SLOW ART project taking place in our small 2 acre woodland in Ireland! It's an ongoing diary in images, short films& conversations between myself, foresters, our local community& beyond, detailing an example of how we are turning our small monoculture spruce plantation into an ecologically& economically sustainable real FOREST.
Spanish conceptual artist and curator who works within themes of society, nature and ecology.
Furtherfield.org: The Zero Dollar Laptop
Nice to see Bruce Sterling picking up on the excellent media arts collective furtherfield.org’s Zero Dollar Laptop project.
Working with clients from St Mungo’s homeless charity, they’re helping people break up old laptops and build new ones, adding free opensource software to help them build new computers for themselves entirely free of charge.
It’s a great project. [...]
On houses that fall into the sea
Earlier this week the papers were full of stories of Ridgemont House in Devon – a house bought for £150,000 by auction, only to see its garden plummet down towards Oddicombe Beach.
The story brought together the national obsession with house prices with the fact of increasing coastal erosion due to climate change. Artist Kane Cunningham is jealous [...]
Pothole gardens; opportunity from decay
This via Thriving Too:
“An ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain’s roads by Pete Dungey, a Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton.”
On Dungey’s web page the photos are accompanied by the quote: ”If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the [...]
Arts
Monkey Chews Gallery: How very curious
Pangolin London: William Tucker
Somerset House: A Positive View
Sartorial Contemporary Art: LIZ NEAL: Solo Show
Wallspace: Envisage: a sculptural journey
Stanley Picker Gallery: Signature Series by Trong G Nguyen
Son Gallery: Eye Saw: Aesthetics and Ethics
Environment
50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta
What the Sami people can teach us
African land grabs, solar bets and extinction
Guardian's sustainability vision
What's the carbon footprint of advertising?
Half of all food sent to Somalia is stolen, says UN report
Feed-in tariff 'killing off' burgeoning UK small turbine industry
Green light: Extinction overtakes evolution, solar panels and polar photos