resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @grescoe: China's largest cities where the action is—but China Daily reports air, water quality make them barely liveable. http://t.co/G… May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: Resilience and Recovery of Overexploited Marine Populations http://t.co/vZ58gqG6ZQ Fish resilient but too much fishing erodes resilience May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: Changes in leading causes of death, years of life lost, & DALYs from 1990->2010 http://t.co/SKR2FTgtpa #GBD #visualization May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @rhizomia: Guatemalan Rios Montt's conviction of genocide annulled - 'technical reasons. Una vergüenza http://t.co/Vwd7LO6dNW May 23, 2013
- resilienceSci: Instability & surprising synchrony of ecosystem services in #urban planning http://t.co/Toygu75g93 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @Revkin: I chat with @MarkTercek on range of approaches needed for a thriving #Anthropocene: http://t.co/lp6Ov501L3 (video) @aspeninstit… May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @macroresilience: believe it or not, best book on immigration & problems of integration I've read: Zlatan Ibrahimovic's autobiography ht… May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: For Swedish speakers- Swedish EPA interviews Carl Folke about ecosystem services. Podcast from @Miljodep: http://t.co/vPzNAlolN6 May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Rate of zoonotic disease emergence is closely tied to ag-environmental interactions, but limited ability to predict http://t.co/3eagecRaGH May 22, 2013
- resilienceSci: Impact of 2008 crisis on inequality across OECD: Income inequality rose but taxes & transfers mitigated impact http://t.co/RQBOEurjQT May 22, 2013
Tag Archives: art
Green art – from collapse to resilience?
In the Economist, Robert Butler writes that GOING GREEN is about artistic change as much as technological change, and that green art is moving away from themes of doom and collapse and towards themes of resilience, survival, adaptation and improvisation. … Continue reading
Links: ECloud, wikipedia, housing bubble, Vaclav Smil, CO2, and ice
Recent links that I liked. 1) Video of ECloud sculpture at San Jose airport. 2) Academics working with wikipedia from Chronicle of Higher Education. 3) Interactive graph of Case-Schiller house price index for 20 cities in USA, showing the continued … Continue reading
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Tagged art, carbon dioxide, Case-Schiller, Ecloud, groundwater, housing bubble, land ice, Vaclav Smil, video
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Carl Folke On Resilience
In Seed Magazine my colleague Carl Folke writes On Resilience: In the 1930s the American art collector Albert Barnes commissioned Henri Matisse to produce a major painting for his private gallery in Merion, outside Philadelphia. Matisse was ecstatic: He rented … Continue reading
Wilderness Downtown
Google Creative Lab has collaborated with the Montreal band, Arcade Fire to create a interactive web movie “The Wilderness Downtown” using Google earth. Director Chris Milk combines the nostalgia of the new Arcade Fire song “We Used to Wait” with … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, General, Visualization
Tagged arcade fire, art, Chris Milk, GIS, google, google earth, music, video
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Reflecting the Niger Delta: Tolu Ogunlesi on Tings Dey Happen
On 3 Quarks Daily Tolu Ogunlesi writes about American Dan Hoyle’s Tings Dey Happen. Dan Hoyle was inspired to write a one man play about Nigeria and the oil industry after being a Fulbright scholar in at the University of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Dan Hoyle, Nigeria, oil, theatre, Tings Dey Happen, Tolu Ogunlesi, video
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Edward Burtynsky’s Oil
Edward Burtynsky’s Oil Alberta Oil Sands #6, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007. From Foreign Policy magazine’s website A decade of photographs exploring the impact of oil from the acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. The collection will be on display at … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Edward Burtynsky, oil, photography, Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery
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Ian McEwan’s climate change novel
Bestselling, and Booker prize winning novelist, Ian McEwan talks about his forthcoming novel on climate change in McEwan’s novel take on climate change: “It took me a long time to find a way into this subject – I’ve been thinking … Continue reading
Vienna Zoo: Wildlife and Humanity
Sculptor Christoph Steinbrener and photographer Reiner Dempf have modified the animal enclosures of the Vienaa Zoo for summer 2009 (June 10 – October 18) for their show Trouble in Paradise. Their show transforms the idealized wild setting in which animals … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Christoph Steinbrener, conservation, Reiner Dempf, Trouble in Paradise, Vienna Zoo
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Neo-biological art
Artists whose work captures some of the complexity of nature. Canadian artist and architect Philip Beesley‘s Hylozoic Soil, an sculpture whose shape memory alloy arms move in response to the movement of people. Here is a video. Reuben Margolin, dynamic … Continue reading
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Tagged Add new tag, art, dynamic wave sculptures., Hylozoic Soil, Jen Stark, paper, Philip Beesley, Reuben Margolin
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Bike rack art
Musician and artist David Byrne is a judge for the bike rack design contest in New York City. The entries were asked to be as creative as possible while recognizing the requirements of “security, ease of installation and maintenance, and … Continue reading