sustainability for artists and designers.

2012-01-08T06:44:00.000-08:00

The Apocalypse Cookbook

2008-05-04T20:27:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, here's my final:

"Apocalypse Cookbook".

Not sure if you can read it without logging into Scribd, so I'll email you all the pdf.

See you all on Wednesday

:D

Death to...

2008-04-24T21:56:00.001-07:00

This should have been posted a long long time ago.
but it wasn't.
so here it is now.
follow this link for one of the best PDF's to help describe what can change in the ideas and methods of "green" people everywhere!
Death to environmentalism!
http://www.thebreakthrough.org/images/Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf
hurray

Van Jones Lecture, Baltimore Green Wee

2008-04-22T18:45:00.000-07:00

Sup Guys,

I was wondering and found out heres the info:

Thursday, May 1st – Green Jobs, Green Economy
∞ Van Jones at Morgan State University 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Link to Baltimore Green Week
http://www.baltimorespokes.org/article.php?story=20080407125457677

pete

another reason why I love michael pollan.

2008-04-20T11:25:00.001-07:00

You know, the author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food."

He writes an eloquent, intelligent, and question-raising article called "The Way We Life: Why Bother?" ... Addressing issues that I think about constantly with all of this, y'know, global warming, like, stuff.

enjoy.

Lawrence Weiner statement 1969

2008-04-16T11:28:00.000-07:00

http://ubu.com/papers/weiner_statements.html

Statements (October 12, 1969)
Lawrence Weiner

I do not mind objects, but I do not care to make them.

The object – by virtue of being a unique commodity – becomes something that might make it impossible for people to see the art for the forest.

People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that’s fine too. They don’t have to buy it to have it – they can have it just by knowing it. Anyone making a reproduction of my art is making art just as valid as art as if I had made it.

Bad news from Annapolis

2008-04-07T20:01:00.000-07:00

The Global Warming Solutions Act was voted out by the House today. Heres the Sun article.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-warming0407,0,7043591.story

Future Farmers:

2008-04-01T18:57:00.000-07:00

To all who are interested in gardening locally,
the Forrest Street City Farm
(run by former MICA students)
is in operation for the season!

They are out at the garden sporadically,
but on Thursdays and Saturdays from 10am-5pm
they'll be collective members working(and lots of neighborhood kids!)

The Farm is located on the 1100 block of Forrest Street-
1 block West of Greenmount Ave between Chase and Biddle.

If you want to join the Email info list, Email Scott Berzofsky
@ scottberzofsky@yahoo.com

List of Groups for EcoFest

2008-03-26T15:32:00.000-07:00

This is a post cause I can't figure out how to make it end up on the classy stuff part
(Hugh maybe only you can put it there?)
any way, here it is and you guys can change things as you see fit

Food Group:
Jamie
Kitt
Pete
Margaret
Adeetje

Individual work to show
Jonathan
Annika
Jordan
Dan
Jen

Local Links
Kristan
Jonathan
Spencer
Adeetje
Dan
Jen

Subversive Acts or Arts?
Kitt
Pete
Spencer
Adeetje
Jordan
Jonathan

I'm sorry in advance if I spelled anybodies name wrong.

branding!

2008-03-16T20:58:00.000-07:00

here is an interesting chart that sums up which huge corporations (i.e., Coca-Cola) own all the organic food products (i.e., Odwalla). Yuck.

Recent water treatment feild trip

2008-03-10T08:11:00.000-07:00

Medicines in treated water

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/09/ST2008030901877.html?hpid=topnews

hey! check it out.

2008-03-04T14:58:00.001-08:00

I'm just gonna plug something really quickly:

adeetje and I have a food blog. you should look at it.

xoxo

jamie

Part of the Cradle to Cradle Discussion

2008-03-03T01:12:00.000-08:00

"... This devouring impulse in Western culture is comparable, they* maintain to a drug or alcohol addiction: 'Recycling is an aspirin, alleviating a rather large collective hangover... overconsumption.' Or again, 'The best way to reduce any environmental impact is not to recycle more, but to produce and dispose of less.'"
- pg.50, par.2, the last two sentences.
* in reference to Use Less Stuff: Environmental Solutions for who we Really are authors Robert Lilienfield and William Rathje

I was personally intrigued by this line of reasoning, for I too have been brainwashed by the reduce, reuse, recycle tri-force as a bandaid for environmental change. It shows the lack of invent-fulness in our current goals of becoming "green" as a whole. Most solutions simply attempt to add-on or amend products and processes to try and be less-bad. When at the root is really our ridiculous desire to consume anything and everything regardless of its harm to us and our environs.

This is really more or less the thesis the rest of the book is built on, however, it leads me to believe that behavior modification, or "good," "ethical" brain-washing is the key to changing the direction we as a culture are currently headed in. It is no different than branding and sales-pitches in any other sector, we just need to dissemenate the word, get the public in the right heading and business will have to follow.

Of course, getting people to buy and use less of whatever they want is important too.

Cradle to Cradle

2008-03-01T09:46:00.000-08:00

"Design a system of industry that will:

-Release fewer pounds of toxic wastes into the air, soil, and water every year
-Measure prosperity by less activity

-Meet the stipulations of thousands of complex regulations to keep people and natural systems from being poisoned too quickly

-Produce fewer materials that are so dangerous that they will require generations to maintain constant vigilance while living in terror

-Result in smaller amounts of waste

-Put smaller amounts of valuable materials in holes all over the planet, where they can never be retrieved." p 62

"The marriage between vision, values, and policy has proved elusive for environmentalists. Most environmental leaders, even the most vision-oriented, are struggling to articulate proposals that have coherence. This is a crisis because environmentalism will never be able to muster the strength it needs to deal with the global warming problem as long as it is seen as a “special interest.” And it will continue to be seen as a special interest as long as it narrowly identiﬁes the problem as “environmental” and the solutions as technical."(from The Death of Environmentalism)

Here are two quotes I collected from the texts that present the Global Warming topic very differently. I can't decide whats more important and useful with my time--to understand the politics or the science. Though somehow I feel powerless to fix the problems we are presented, unless I become more informed. What's most effective, to be an informed artist or citizen?

Please comment

Your Personal Solar System

2008-02-28T19:35:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow (Friday) I'll be giving my talk for the WE DONT KNOW WHAT WE DONT KNOW exhibition. Please stop by for a discussion on small-scale solar and veggie burgers cooked by car battery.

Adeetje Bouma will teach how to make
SUNNY SIDE UP
on February 29 1PM-2PM
Main Building Basement Gallery

Or you can try Instructables for some zany solar array ideas:

Enemy Kitchen

2008-02-25T16:57:00.000-08:00

"Enemy Kitchen is an ongoing project begun by Michael Rakowitz in 2004. Collaborating with his Iraqi-Jewish mother, he compiles Baghdadi recipes and teaches them to different public audiences."
Read review in San Francisco Chronicle

Iraqi food and Turkish coffee will be made in-house (using artist's emailed instructions) and served to attendees. Tuesday, Feb 26th 10pm in Main Building's basement gallery.

2008-02-25T11:45:00.000-08:00

Just as organic food swept into grocery stores in the 1990s, Godsall is planning to line the lumber aisles of Home Depot and Lowe’s with underwater-harvested timber. He’s also talking to Ikea about an exclusive deal to provide wood for tables and chairs. And the Triton logo is becoming an “Intel Inside”-type seal that retailers can slap on products to attract green-minded buyers.

Click here for article...

Parkingday.org

2008-02-24T14:06:00.000-08:00

Conceived by REBAR, a San Francisco-based art collective, PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco where artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks.

Lunchtime Lecture Series

2008-02-24T11:39:00.000-08:00

This Monday at 12, Paul Foer will be this weeks guest at the lecture series. Paul will talk about city planning,public transportation and the question of "what exactly is sustainability anyway?"

spread the word

Sustainability Film Series

2008-02-24T10:13:00.001-08:00

This Tuesday is the last night of the Sustainability Film Series. We'll screen Everything's Cool. It is a documentary that is specifically focused on the public and political perceptions of climate change. The director, Judith Helfand will be there to take questions after the film.

Heres a link to the films site for more information.

http://everythingscool.org/article.php?list=type&type=10

First flight with bio fuels...

2008-02-24T08:56:00.000-08:00

it's just a gimmick...

texas, of all places.

2008-02-23T16:55:00.000-08:00

here is an article about wind turbines taking over texas.

sometimes, I think we're making progress...

Stop Junk Mail. Save Trees.

2008-02-22T15:26:00.001-08:00

Put a stop to junk mail...I thought this was an interesting green business idea...

http://greendimes.com

eNutrition Facts

2008-02-22T14:08:00.000-08:00

An idea for electronics to carry nutrition fact like labels...

Greener Gadgets Design Competition

Eating Green

2008-02-21T11:08:00.000-08:00

I found this group to be really interesting...

Started in 1999 by the artist/chef Jim Denevan, Outstanding in the Field is an organization whose chief goal is to reconnect eaters with producers, “between the soil and the sky,” at a single dining table. Communal feasts for an era in which fast food reigns supreme, the series holds locality as one of the chief ingredients to a successful meal. Diners who are able to score a place at the routinely sold-out meals can count amongst their company local farmers, artisans, and vintners—the repast generally prepared by a renowned regional chef.

http://www.outstandinginthefield.com

Harvesting from the grounds around you

2008-02-20T16:31:00.000-08:00

This is an article related to my art talk.

Its about foraging and the the writer's experience growing up in Baltimore.

http://www.citypaper.com/eat/story.asp?id=14760

Oh also, if you are interested in coming on a gathering walk for ginkgo nuts this weekend, please send me a note. It will be Sunday from 3:30 to 4:30.

something nice, for a change.

2008-02-20T14:13:00.000-08:00

This is to continue with the theme that is, apparently, cows. An article about small dairy farms that are, essentially, starting to make it work! Reading this makes me hungry for some yogurt.

[five minutes later]: OK -- I just looked up Maryland Creameries, and I found this one: South Mountain Creamery. It's based in Middletown, MD, and I think that it might deliver to Bmore! I just placed an order to see if it will work. They are not certified organic but their cows are all pasture (grass) fed and they encourage people to visit the farm: always a good sign. They also don't use hormones or pesticides -- organic enough, in my book. My delivery status hasn't been confirmed yet, but once it is, I'll let you all know. Don't fall off the edge of your seats or anything.

If it works, would anyone be interested in sharing a delivery spot (and the $3.50 delivery fee)? Also: possible field trip? Yeah? They milk the cows from 1:30 - 5:00 p.m. ...!

One More reason to not eat meat...

2008-02-18T11:46:00.000-08:00

This is from yahoo, its on the main yahoo page when you check in to "my yahoo"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080218/ap_on_bi_ge/slaughterhouse_abuse

big scare and recall on some beef from a giant feed-lot and slaughterhouse operation in california. not looking good.

KB

Sustainability Lecture Series - Tilt Studio

2008-02-17T16:56:00.000-08:00

This Monday the 18th is the first of the Sustainability Lecture Series, 12pm Art Tech, next door to the Mt Royal Tavern.

Tilt Studio is a Baltimore green design firm made up of former MICA GD graduate students. They are currently working on a large city wide banner event called the Urban Forest Project. This event is tied to TreeBaltimore which is a city reforestation campaign.

Here is a link to their website

http://www.tiltstudio.biz/innovation/retail.php

Easy Peasy

2008-02-13T22:07:00.000-08:00

Well, this was easy to get hooked up on, and here's a link to a Wall Street Journal article about cities attempting to add carbon-neutral and sustainable concepts to their energy portfolios... read on

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120248655589254033.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today

this

2008-02-13T14:28:00.000-08:00

looks good, thanks Jamie,

lets see if this site is easier to post on, I will try a few things tomorrow,

one concern is that on

on my computer the title at the top of the page is cut off

Hugh

novelty.

2008-02-13T12:25:00.000-08:00

hey guys.

so, I made this new blog, as our old one kind of became defunct. I hope everyone enjoys it.

in true fashion, I'm posting a link to "dotearth," a nytimes blog all about climate change and sustainability. there's a ton of information -- I'm a sucker for the pictures.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com