The Apocalypse Cookbook

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...

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

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.

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

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

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:

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

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!

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

Medicines in treated water

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

hey! check it out.

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

"... 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

"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

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

"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.

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

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

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

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