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Let's Talk About The Weather podcast explores creative approaches to global problems through ecoart, music, writing, and other media. In discussing the connections between humans and their environment through the eyes of artists, we find a fresh perspective on ecology and new ways to thrive on our favorite planet.
Regan Rosburg is an artist and naturalist. Recently, her work has been an investigation into society's collective grief, melancholia and mania which manifests as consumption and distraction. She has conducted biology-based research trips to the Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Thailand, The Pacific Northwest Coast, and the Smokey Mountains of Northeast Tennessee.
Rosburg works in a variety of materials. Her resin work contains precious artifacts: plant and animal relics, bones, insects, lace and painted imagery. These objects are suspended in incredibly laborious, three dimensional resin "paintings." The use of resin poignantly addresses her growing concern over plastic pollution in the environment, while presenting the beauty of plant and animal species.
Regan curated Axis Mundi - an exhibition of 21 artists from all over the USA and Canada that responded to the topics of Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia.
Links mentioned * Ecopsychology * The three terms expressed on Axis Mundi: Artists on Ecopsychology * + Freud's “Mourning, Melancholia, and Mania” PDF + Renee Lurtzman on Environmental Melancholia + E. O. Wilson and Biophilia / Forest Bathing in Japan * The 2017 Biennial of Americas in Denver, CO * Chris Jordan's film "Albatross" * The 21 artists and their work can be found at AXIS MUNDI Artists on EcoPsychology: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania, and Biophilia * Regan's "The Relentless Memorial" * Axis Mundi Brings The Work of Twenty-one Artists from the USA and Canada * Jennifer Jenal showing of Albatros * Summer 2018 showings at the William Havu Gallery in Denver
Guest Contact information * ReganRosburg.com * Regan Rosburg on InstaGram #reganrosburg * Regan Rosburg on Tumblr * Regan Rosburg on Vimeo
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ZACKERY RAGO is the Youth Outreach Manager for Exposure Labs' Chasing Coral Impact Campaign and is thrilled to engage youth around the globe through science, art, and passion.
Zack’s passion for coral reefs began in the Hawaiian Islands where he spent his childhood summers under the waves of the Pacific. His infatuation with coral led to a position in the marine aquarium industry for 4 years before bringing his passion to Teens4Oceans and View Into The Blue. He received a degree in Evolutionary Biology & Ecology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a talented reef aquarist and long-time scuba diver, he is dedicated to communicating the story of coral through science and art.
Links Mentioned * https://www.chasingcoral.com/ * http://www.exposurelabs.com/ * https://teens4oceans.org/ * https://www.viewintotheblue.com/
Contact Zack * Zack Rago * Zack on Twitter @coral_buff * Zack on Instagram @coral_buff * Zack and Resources on www.ChasingCoral.com
Contact us and let’s talk (about the weather) * Ashley Mazanec at EcoArtsFoundation.org * Britta Nancarrow on Instagram * Britta Nancarrow at the Climate Reality Project * EcoArtsFoundation.org * Let’s Talk About The Weather podcast page * Email the show
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Beverly Naidus is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. While developing an innovative studio arts curriculum, she has been creating interactive installations, digital projects, artist books and narrative and conceptual drawings for over three decades. Much of her work is audience-participatory, inviting people to tell their own stories in response to the theme being explored. Inspired by the lived experience, topics in her art focus on environmental and social issues, including how we are individually and collectively affected by racism, climate change and multiple forms of systemic oppression.
Her unique courses at UWT emerge from her own projects and include Art in a Time of War, Cultural Identity and Art, Body Image and Art, Eco-art, Labor, Globalization and Art and the Artist as Visionary and Dreamer. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, numerous essays on socially engaged art and pedagogy and some recent pieces of speculative fiction. She has taught at several NYC museums, Carleton College, Cal State Long Beach, Hampshire College, Goddard College and the Institute for Social Ecology. She has guest lectured and led workshops all over North America and in Europe.
She facilitated and designed the permaculture-inspired, eco-art project, Eden Reframed, on Vashon Island, WA, funded by the Royalty Research Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in mainstream museums, university galleries, alternative spaces, and city streets. It has been reviewed and discussed by many significant writers, including Lucy R. Lippard, Suzi Gablik, Paul Von Blum and Lisa Bloom.
As part of her new collective, ARTifACTs, she is collaborating on an interactive, multidisciplinary project about the future. “We Almost Didn’t Make It,” imagines the artifacts (and stories that emerge from them) found by our descendants that give them insights into the risks taken by activists (their ancestors) that allowed the descendants to exist. It’s an audience participatory and multi-media work that gives participants the opportunity to imagine the artifacts that their descendants might find.
Topics & Links Covered in this Episode * Joanna Macy - Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age * Beverly Naidus- Eden Reframed * Beverly Naidus - Soil Remediation * Pesticides originally developed as bio warfare during World War II * Beverly Naidus on Panic and Despair about Climate Change - We Almost Didn’t Make It * UW Tacoma YouTube - We Almost Didn't Make It - Beverly Naidus * Pete Seeger “Lots of teaspoons can fill a pail” (The teaspoon brigade) * Children & Nature Network - Nature Deficit Disorder * No More "Nature-Deficit Disorder" - The "No Child Left Inside" movement * Beverly Naidus Book: One Size Does Not Fit All * Beverly Naidus Book: Art in a Time of War * Book: Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame * Non violent communication * Beverly Naidus - Labor Globalization and Arts class * Beverly Naidus - So you want to be an eco-artist? Lessons in Grief and Gratitude * Beverly Naidus - Portable Altars for Grief and Gratitude * Beverly sits on the Puyallup Nation Land
Contact Beverly Naidus * BeverlyNaidus.net * On Facebook: Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame * Download: Naidus-Art CV 2018 * Eco-art Project’s Blog: Eden Reframed: Eco-art Meets Permaculture Design on Vashon Island * Beverly Naidus: Academia, University of Washington Tacoma, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Faculty Member * Beverly Naidus: Wikipedia
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Beginning in April 2016, environmental visual arts activist Noam Bedein began documenting the treasures of the Dead Sea, gathering evidence of new dramatic geological phenomena and measuring the constant and rapid receding water level.
Scientists are warning that if something is not done immediately, all that will remain of the Dead Sea will be a small pool of salt water.
His mission is to share the incredible beauty of this World Heritage Site using many forms of visual arts; such as a photo exhibition display and virtual reality demonstration, all for sounding the alarm of its imminent disappearance. Since founding Dead Sea Revival Project he has been recognized by National Geographic and CNN/VR.
Links mentioned * Dead Sea rapid receding water level * Dead Sea Revival Project * Noam Bedein on Instagram * National Geographic and CNN/VR.
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Guest Contact Info Noam Bedein * Dead Sea Revival Project * Noam Bedein on Instagram * noam@deadsearevival.org
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Aaron M. Ellison is the Senior Research Fellow in Ecology in Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Senior Ecologist & Deputy Director at the Harvard Forest, and a semi-professional photographer and writer. He studies the disintegration and reassembly of ecosystems following natural and anthropogenic disturbances; thinks about the relationship between the Dao and the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis; reflects on the critical and reactionary stance of Ecology relative to Modernism, blogs as The Unbalanced Ecologist, and tweets as @AMaxEll17. He is the author of A Primer of Ecological Statistics (2004/2012), A Field Guide to the Ants of New England (2012; recipient of the 2013 USA Book News International Book Award in General Science, and the 2013 award for Specialty Title in Science and Nature from The New England Society in New York City), Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research (2017), Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution (2018), and Vanishing Point (2017), a collection of photographs and poetry from the Pacific Northwest. On Wednesdays, he works wood.
David Buckley Borden is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. Using an accessible combination of art and design, David promotes a shared environmental awareness and heightened cultural value of ecology. David's projects highlight both pressing environmental issues and everyday phenomena. Driven by research and community outreach, his work manifests in a variety of forms, ranging from site-specific landscape installations in the woods to data-driven cartography in the gallery.
David's place-based projects have recently earned him residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Teton Artlab, Trifecta Hibernaculum, and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. David was a 2016/2017 Charles Bullard Fellow in Forest Research at Harvard University and continues to work with researchers as a Harvard Forest Associate Fellow to answer the question, “How can art and design foster cultural cohesion around environmental issues and help inform ecology-minded decision making?” David studied landscape architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and worked at Sasaki Associates and Ground before focusing his independent practice at the intersection of landscape, creativity, and cultural event.
Links mentioned The Suffocating Embrace of Landscape and the Picturesque Conditioning of Ecology
Guest Contact Info Aaron Ellison * Aaron’s Wikipedia page * Aaron’s Amazon Author page * Aaron at Harvard Forest (Harvard University's 4000 acre laboratory & classroom Long Term Ecological Research site since 1988) * Aaron The Unbalanced Ecologist * Aaron on Twitter @AMaxEll17 * Email Aaron Ellison
David Buckley Borden * David at DavidBuckleyBorden.com * Associate Fellow (Designer-In-Residence) at Harvard Forest * Hemlock Hospice Art/Science Installation & Exhibition by David Buckley Borden * David at the Santa Fe Art Institute
Contact us and let’s talk (about the weather) * Ashley Mazanec at EcoArtsFoundation.org * Britta Nancarrow on Instagram * Britta Nancarrow at the Climate Reality Project * EcoArtsFoundation.org * Let’s Talk About The Weather podcast page * Email the show
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Mario Benassi is a producer, director and cinematographer dedicated to the preservation of biodiversity. National Geographic, PBS and Discovery Channel are just a few of the many organizations Benassi has worked with.
Acclaimed for filming in rugged and remote jungles, Benassi has put himself in extreme situations to capture intimate moments with truly amazing wildlife. He now resides in Haines, Alaska where he continues to document the wonders of nature exposing how pollution and other environmental issues affect the ecosystems.
As founder of Wildside Productions, an organization that uses media, presentations and live animal encounters to create environmental awareness, Benassi’s goal is to inspire the preservation of the Earth’s beauty.
Links mentioned * Marty Stouffer's Wild America. * Ginger Kathrens and The Cloud Foundation protecting and preserving America's wild horses and burros. * Mario Benassi film Toxic Treasure (listed down the page) at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival.
Mario’s Contact Info Mario Benassi
Producer / Director / Cinematographer
HC 60 Box 2844
Haines, AK 99827
Wildside Productions LTD
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Sent on April 25, 2018 by Anonymous.
“to the future generation, Hello to whoever reads this letter in the future. Today is a beautiful sunny day without a single cloud in sight. The sun is warm with a slight breeze tingling down my face as I walk on the sidewalks. Over the next ten, twenty or even thirty years, these clear, sunny skies may not even exist. At the current rate of pollution and climate change that we are currently experiencing, cities may begin to fill up with smog and pollution. I fear the day that we may not ever see a sunny day in the future…”
Read the complete letter and Send Your Own Message Here.
Jill Kubit is the director and co-founder of DearTomorrow - a digital and archive project for people to personally connect with the issue of climate change, to commit to taking stronger action and to share these stories with friends, family and their social networks.
After spending a decade working with the U.S. labor movement on climate change, she has become fascinated with how to best engage the general public on this complex issue. Jill is deeply committed to building new ideas, projects and organizations to explore this question and brings many organizational development skills to her work, including: fundraising, building partnerships, developing strategy, teaching, writing, organizing events, and managing projects. She has a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. from Northwestern.
Her TED Talk discusses the founding of DearTomorrow - a project she started with Trisha Shrum when her son Gabriel was 18 months old - which she has been working to build ever since.
Guest Contact Info Jill Kubit
Website: www.deartomorrow.org
Send Your Own Message Here
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- Instagram: DearTomorrow https://www.instagram.com/deartomorrow/
- Twitter: @deartmrw https://twitter.com/DearTmrw
- TED talk: Climate change is personal | Jill Kubit
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Daniel Hudon, originally from Canada, is an adjunct lecturer in math, astronomy and physics. He is the author of two books of nonfiction: a humorous intro to the universe, called The Bluffer’s Guide to the Cosmos and a lyrical prose compendium designed to raise awareness about the biodiversity crisis, called Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader. He likes to go hiking and kayaking and to dance Argentine tango.
He can be found online at DanielHudon.com, @daniel_hudon, and in Boston, MA.
A quote read by Ashley from Tagore blazed onto a sign in a hillside stand of deodars in Simla, India: Be still, my heart, these great trees are prayers, and as I watch them swell above me I see the symmetry of hands pressed together tapering skyward and try to remember when I last loved a tree so much I wanted to get lost in its forest, or even its shadow.
Once in a Toronto park I saw a maple sing out as if it was the last tree on Earth; never had I seen such red for in Alberta, where I grew up, fall was brief and yellow, without maples. I remember telling my parents about it on the phone. On my block in Boston, every autumn a maple turns red in a slow burn from the top down over several weeks, as if refusing to let its fire out too quickly. But last fall it turned early, dropped its leaves before the end of August and now bark is peeling away from the trunk. All winter I wondered if it would bud in the spring and now I know. I fear it will be removed and don’t know what I will do then.
Last year scientists said our planet had three trillion trees, enough to give each person four hundred and twenty two, a small forest and really, I’d like to know where mine are because I want to climb one of them, or perhaps build a treehouse, string a hammock between a pair, or walk among them as if they are elders of the Earth, praying for all of us.
Guest Contact Info Daniel Hudon, Ph.D.
Twitter: @daniel_hudon
Web: DanielHudon.com
See my new book: Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader, available at http://penandanvil.com/brief-eulogies/
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Designer and environmental artist Doron Gazit‘s use of the natural elements - in particular wind - has provoked and fascinated onlookers from the Fly Guy of the Olympics to visual feasts across castles and deserts.
Since 2014, he has sounded a creative alarm of sorts through his Red Line Project, a series of red balloon tunnels highlighting humans’ misuse of the environment. Gazit’s temporary installations can be found documented across the globe from the Dead Sea sinkholes to Alaskan glaciers.
Topics and Links mentioned * VIDEO: Keeping the Dead Sea alive: Artist Doron Gazit creates eye-popping installations in Israel, i24news * 1984 Olympic games and the “Fly Guy” * Doron’s development of “vertical winds” * Doron’s Burning Man installations * The Redline Metaphor and the Projects * Valerie Kosheleff MSc, and the Save a Horney Friend Foundation * VIDEO: The Red Line Project at the Dead Sea Sinkholes - Doron Gazit * Glacier Melts * Doron’s Mission * Doron Gazit’s Art Materials * National Geographic - We Made Plastic. We depend on it. Now we're Drowning in it * National Geographic - Planet or Plastic? * Pesticides and Algae Blooms * VIDEO: Sculpting the Winds of Change | Doron Gazit | TEDxVail * BOOK: Doron Gazit: Art * Design * Spirit * Inspirational: Christo and Jeanne-Claude * Inspirational: Andy Goldsworthy * Inspirational: John Quigley * The Instructables Wind Tube
Doron’s closing words: “Don’t be passive.” Think how to change, improve. Be active. Break the frame!”
Guest Contact Info Doron Gazit
DoronGazit.com
Doron on Instagram
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Miss Violette is a budding duo that marries the unique style of singer/songwriter and activist Violette Larsen with the musical direction and insight of acclaimed producer and writer Angus Wilson. On and off stage they commit their lives to the musical embodiment of love and truth through lyrics and melody, on a mission together to bring heart centered, impact driven music back to the mainstream.
Their first EP Black Snake, inspired by the Dakota Access oil pipeline, will be released July 16, 2018, alongside a music video to accompany its namesake single.
Guest Contact Info Miss Violette
@GrooveOnViolette on InstaGram
Miss Violette on Facebook
MissViolette.com
Angus Wilson
muSIChouse.earth
muSIC house on Facebook
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Lara Segura has extensive experience as a professional dancer, teacher, producer and choreographer. In 2005 Lara graduated with a BFA Degree from San Diego State University and was later named the 2012 Dance Alumni of the Year for SDSU.
She has had the pleasure of performing with Malashock Dance, Mojalet Dance Collective, Jacksonville Dance Theater, Sound Dance Company, Wallpaper Performance Company and San Diego Dance Theater’s Trolley Dances. She has served as a faculty member at Douglas Anderson School for the Performing Arts and Jacksonville University.
In 2014 Lara received her MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University with an emphasis in engaging audiences via site-specific dance. She is a founding steering committee member for San Diego Dance Connect and serves on the advisory board for National Water Dance. Her Bee Conscious Summer Series is a lighthearted look at the buzzing world of pollinators.
Show Note Links * Dale Aundra Founder National Water Dance * National Water Dance Liquid Flux * Rebecca Brown H2O Dance Company * San Diego’s Museum of Man * LIVE Stream @ National Water Dance via YouTube or on Lara’s FB page * Xeriscaping * Ep. 4 Rob Greenfield: Food Waste Fiasco, Trash Me, and Creative Eco Adventures * Bees and the “waggle” dance * Ep. 7 Alicia Previn: Earthworms, Tortoises, and Bees in Song and Story * James McDonald Beekeeper
Guest Contact Info Lara Segura on Facebook
Lara Segura on Instagram
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Ruth Wallen is a multimedia artist and writer whose work is dedicated to encouraging dialogue about ecology and social justice. She creates web sites and outdoor installations and has participated in innumerable exhibitions. Solo exhibitions range from Franklin Furnace, CEPA, New Langton Arts, to many San Diego venues.
Web site hosts include the California Museum of Photography and the Exploratorium, where her work is currently on view. She was part of Weather Report: Art and Climate Change at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Lucy Lippard, and recently has been addressing climate change in collaboration with scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Ruth writes critically about ecological art and race, gender and visual culture. She is on the faculty of the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Goddard College, a lecturer at UCSD, and was a Fulbright Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana.
Links to the Artwork of Ruth Wallen * Listen to the Trees * Las Comadres * Light Up the Border Again * View Points: Estuary * Intimate Details * Remember The Trees
Articles * Preserving Paradise * A Day Without Mexicans * Barrier or Bridge: Photojournalism of the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region * LEONaRDo vol 45 calls for “Visionary intervention in a time of crisis”
Other mentions * Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything * Ep. 24 Regan Rosburg: Breaching Grief, Melancholia and Mania with Biophilia * Helen Newton . . . @ about 46:30 * Public Address (public artists)
Guest Contact information RuthWallen.net
Ruth Wallen on Facebook
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Regan Rosburg is an artist and naturalist. Recently, her work has been an investigation into society's collective grief, melancholia and mania which manifests as consumption and distraction. She has conducted biology-based research trips to the Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Thailand, The Pacific Northwest Coast, and the Smokey Mountains of Northeast Tennessee.
Rosburg works in a variety of materials. Her resin work contains precious artifacts: plant and animal relics, bones, insects, lace and painted imagery. These objects are suspended in incredibly laborious, three dimensional resin "paintings." The use of resin poignantly addresses her growing concern over plastic pollution in the environment, while presenting the beauty of plant and animal species.
Regan curated Axis Mundi - an exhibition of 21 artists from all over the USA and Canada that responded to the topics of Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia.
Links mentioned * Ecopsychology * The three terms expressed on Axis Mundi: Artists on Ecopsychology * + Freud's “Mourning, Melancholia, and Mania” PDF + Renee Lurtzman on Environmental Melancholia + E. O. Wilson and Biophilia / Forest Bathing in Japan * The 2017 Biennial of Americas in Denver, CO * Chris Jordan's film "Albatross" * The 21 artists and their work can be found at AXIS MUNDI Artists on EcoPsychology: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania, and Biophilia * Regan's "The Relentless Memorial" * Axis Mundi Brings The Work of Twenty-one Artists from the USA and Canada * Jennifer Jeannelle showing of Albatros * Summer 2018 showings at the William Havu Gallery in Denver
Guest Contact information * ReganRosburg.com * Regan Rosburg on InstaGram #reganrosburg * Regan Rosburg on Tumblr * Regan Rosburg on Vimeo
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Dr. Katharine Wilkinson is Senior Writer at Project Drawdown, where she collaborated with Paul Hawken on the New York Times best-seller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.
Katharine’s interdisciplinary background cuts across research, strategy, and thought leadership, with a focus on exploring, amplifying, and invigorating action to address climate change. She is a Guest Lecturer in environmental leadership at Agnes Scott College. Previously, she was Director of Strategy at the purpose consultancy BrightHouse and worked for the Boston Consulting Group and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Based on her doctoral research at the University of Oxford, Katharine published Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change, called “a vitally important, even subversive, story” by The Boston Globe. Her recent fellowships include Aspen Ideas and Summit LA, and her voice has been featured by The Weather Channel, Talks @ Google, and on campuses including Columbia, Princeton, and Yale. Katharine holds a doctorate in Geography & Environment from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a B.A. in Religion from Sewanee - The University of the South. She is happiest on a mountain or a horse.
Links mentioned * Project: Drawdown - 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming * Book: Drawdown - The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming * Katharine: Speaking * Drawdown: Solutions * Katharine's book: Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change * Let's create a climate fit for life: Interface carpet manufacture * Paul Hawken’s Book: The Ecology of Commerce * Kick-off of the Eco Challenge
Contact Katharine Wilkinson A Path Forward on Climate Change. Writing. Speaking. Strategy. Facilitation.
KKWilkinson.com
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Marina Zurkow is a media artist focused on near-impossible nature and culture intersections, researching “wicked problems” like invasive species, superfund sites, and petroleum interdependence. She has used life science, bio materials, animation, dinners and software technologies to foster intimate connections between people and non-human agents. Her work spans gallery installations and unconventional public participatory projects. Currently, she is working on connecting toxic urban waterways to oceans, and researching the tensions between maritime ecology and the ocean’s primary human use as a capitalist Pangea.
Una Chaudhuri teaches English, Drama, and Environmental Studies at New York University. Her recent books include Animal Acts: Performing Species Today, co-edited with Holly Hughes, and Ecocide: Research Theatre and Climate Change, co-authored with Shonni Enelow. She collaborates with Fritz Ertl in a long-term project called Research Theatre. Her current projects include a book tentatively entitled The Stage Lives of Animals, another on oceans and performance, and a Research Theater exploration of Alexander Von Humboldt.
Links and Resources Mentioned * Website: Dear Climate * At NYU Campus Abu Dhabi * Book: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's The Collapse of Western Civilization * Book: Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement * Ecological artist, educator, activist, and writer Oliver Kellhammer * Meet climate, befriend climate, be climate: The Climoji Project Team * The Climoji App * Una’s interest in Pedagogy * Dear Climate Posters available for download * Dear Climate Podcast
Guest Contact information Una Chaudhuri & Marina Zurkow
Dear Climate
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CALL TO ACTION by March 9th, 2018 Text OCEAN to 52886 to leave a comment with the Federal Government regarding offshore drilling and/or visit Regulations.gov. Andy Myers is the Senior Campaign Coordinator for Working Films, he holds a B.A in film studies and a B.A in environmental studies from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. A longtime proponent of connecting film with activism, he has coordinated various national campaigns which leverage the narrative in social issue documentaries to advance the efforts of organizations with shared goals.
Topics and Links Mentioned * Asheville, NC * Film: Shore Stories * Seismic testing * Seismic testing effects on marine life * Film: Sonic Sea * Want to host a short story screening? Contact Andy via email * Oceania.org Protecting the World’s Oceans * Surfrider Foundation.org * Book: This Changes Everything ~ Naomi Klein * Tips for the Eco Artist? Think about the art, not the impact. * “Just Transition” ~ Andy Myers, climate change to renewable energy . . .
CALL TO ACTION by March 9th, 2018 - Post-screening update & action: text OCEAN to 52886 to leave a comment with the Federal Government regarding offshore drilling and/or visit Regulations.gov.
Guest Contact information Andy Myers
Working Films
624 1/2 South 7th Street
Wilmington NC 28401
www.WorkingFilms.org
@workingfilms
amyers@workingfilms.org
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Mario Escobar is the Digital Media Producer for the Story of Stuff Project, a non-profit which utilizes the power of animated video and picture to raise awareness of the impact our take-make-waste economy has on the environment. As he manages the creation of short, educational videos - his position entails him to identify, create and share impactful stories that highlight problems and solutions relating to various environmental issues. Mario has spent more than 15 years producing, editing and directing projects in the field of social justice.
Links and Mentions * The Story of Stuff * The Free Range Studio * Privatized Water Awareness * We Tap * The Story of Stuff: Tell Nestle to Unbottle California! * Episode 16: Kirsi Jansa: Pioneering Sustainability with Documentary Film * The Story of Stuff Microban * Monica Rosquillas on Instagram: Girl For A Clean World * SumOfUs palm oil commercial * SanDiego350 * The Story of Stuff: The Growing Solutions Campaign * Eco Artists Tips
Guest Contact information Mario Escobar
The Story of Stuff
Mario on Facebook
The Story of Stuff on Twitter
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The Story of Stuff on Instagram
The Story of Stuff on YouTube
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Kyle Calian is the founder the Regeneration Magazine, a biannual print and digital publication, that seeks to address the lack of informative and inspiring content on the environment by highlighting the people who have chosen to make addressing these problems their life’s work.
By showcasing the personal stories of these creatives, artists, writers, and entrepreneurs, the hope is that by changing the conversation on climate change, their social enterprises will not only give the movement a voice, but also inspire its readers to join as well. Kyle is also a graphic designer, photographer, and social innovator focused finding solutions using human-centered design, cradle to cradle, regenerative design and zero waste principles. From permaculture to graphic design, Kyle is passionate about all things environment and social innovation, hunting down solutions that make better communities and regenerate our soil.
He also has two earth tattoos and a recycling tattoo and hopes to one day go skiing with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Links or mentions * Paul Hawken’s Drawdown * Daniel Pinchback’s How Soon Is Now? * The Film RiverBlue * Zero Waste Lifestyle * Kyle’s #1 Eco Hot Button: Food * Solare Creative * Ecological Design
Guest Contact information Kyle Calian
kyle@theregenerationmag.com
www.TheRegenerationMag.com
Instagram: @theregenerationmag
Twitter: @theregenmag
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You probably know Justin Hofman as the mastermind behind the viral photo of an innocent seahorse carrying a Q-tip through the ocean. This captivating photo alerted millions of viewers to the toxic impact we have on other creatures and environments. As a distinguished photographer, videographer and scientific illustrator, Justin is a member of the SeaLegacy Collective, a group of prominent photographers and videographers who use the power of media and art to inspire people to take action to save our oceans. Additionally, Justin is an expedition leader with EYOS Expeditions, a certified UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) pilot and a rebreather diver.
Mentions * UC Santa Cruz * Diane Burko: Polar Expeditions in Photo and Paint * The Centre for Bhutan Studies & GNH (Gross National Happiness) * A Short Guide to Gross National Happiness Index * Wildlife Conservation Society (Chile) * The garbage patches of the Atlantic * Starving Polar Bear VIDEO @NatGeo * SeaLegacy * David Doubilet @NatGeo Photographer and speaker * Cynthia Matzke: Filming a way to Ocean Health * SpiralPacific.org * The Great White Shark @NatGeo * SeafoodWatch.org * The Seafood Watch APP
Contact Justin Hofman Justin on Instagram
Justin’s website
SeaLegacy Collective
EYOS Expeditions
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www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Marina Qutab, better known as the Eco Goddess, is a zero waste vegan influencer. As an activist since the age of 10, she latched on to art and music in particular to spread her message.
Apart from being an eco-musician herself, she founded Ecostrings, an organization which uses music to educate people worldwide about pressing social issues and encourages them to take action. Among her many talents, Marina is about to release her first ever E-book called "Zero Waste Vegan Travel." Marina uses the power of film, photo, recipes, music, and compassion to enrich the environmental movement.
Links mentioned * ProjectGreenChallenge.com * CoralTreeFarm.com * How I traveled across the country . . . * Zero Waste Vegan Travel eBook * Prince Ea’s YouTube Dear Future Generations: Sorry * Recycling: What Goes Where
Guest Contact information Marina Qutab
- EcoGoddess.com
- EcoStringsMusic.org
- Marina Qutab on Instagram
- Marina on Facebook
- EcoGoddess on Facebook
- Ecostrings on Facebook
- EcoGoddess on YouTube
Mona Thomas
- SunHorseEnergy.com
- monat@sunhorseenergy.com
Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Kirsi Jansa is a documentary filmmaker and journalist, she uses the power of authentic human stories to educate the people, especially on issues relating to environment, health and sustainability. She is best known for her two short documentary series, Gas Rush Stories and Sustainability Pioneers. Kirsi is currently an organizer for Creatives 4 Climate, an organization that brings together artists, architects, climate communicators and scientists to inspire others to use creativity and art to spread the word about climate change and action.
Mentions * Carnegie Museum of Natural History Educators * Land Art Generator Initiative * We Are Nature: Living in the Anthropocene * Joanna Macy: Active Hope * Dear Tomorrow * Bill Gentile: Backpack Journalism Workshop * Kirsi Jansa: Gas Rush Stories * Miranda C. Spencer: Don’t do it, Scotland - fracking warnings from Pennsylvania * The Freedom of Press Index and the Sunshine Laws * Fracking: Terry Greenwood’s Fight * Sustainability Pioneers * Gasland the movie * The Carbon Tax * Naomi Oreskes: the numbers we put on subsidies * CitizensClimateLobby.org
Guest Contact information Kirsi Jansa
- GasRushStories.com
- SustainabilityPioneers.com
- Sustainability Pioneers on Facebook
- Creatives4Climate.wordpress.com
- Creatives 4 Climate on Facebook
Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Through his one-person comedies and lively lectures, Peterson Toscano has delighted audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Africa as he takes on social justice concerns. His plays and talks humorously explore the serious topics of LGBTQ issues, sexism, racism, privilege, gender, and climate change. Concerned about climate change as a human rights and LGBTQ issue, Peterson shares his gifts on his YouTube videos and on stage. A Quaker and obsessive gardener, he leads the Sunbury chapter of the Citizens' Climate Lobby with his husband and organizes trips to South Africa for the Susquehanna University Global Opportunities’ program. A recognized scholar who has highlighted gender variance in the Bible, Peterson’s personal journey to accept himself as gay had been long and complicated. Through performances, media appearances, and community organizing, he has raised public awareness about the harm that comes from seeking to suppress and change one’s sexuality and gender differences.
Links mentioned * Peterson’s YouTube Channel * Citizens’ Climate Lobby * Glen Retief * Peterson’s website * Beyond ExGay
Guest Contact information Peterson Toscano
- Peterson’s website
- YouTube
- Climate Stew podcast
Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org and www.EcoArtsFoundation.org
Julia Levine is a playwright, creative collaborator and vegetarian. Planted in the New York City downtown theatre realm, she is on the Marketing team at HERE, the Producing team for the International Human Rights Art Festival, the organizing team for Climate Change Theatre Action, and writes for the blog series Artists & Climate Change. Julia creates new performance pieces as part of The Food Plays, an initiative she founded to raise questions about food, climate, and justice through theatre.
Links mentioned * The Food Plays on Facebook * Book: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer * Play: UPROOT at "Here" by Julia Levine * Climate Change Theatre Action website * Climate Change Theatre Action on Facebook * International Human Rights Art Festival * Artists in Climate Change blog * The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies by artist James Leonard * The Red Line Project by environmental artists Daron Gazetz * Capitalism vs. the Environment
Guest Contact information Julia Levine * www.JuliaSLevine.com * The Food Plays on Facebook * Instagram * Twitter
Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Rae Irelan graduated from The Boston Conservatory with BFA in contemporary dance performance and has since worn many hats from event producer, dancer, teacher and yogini, to alternative healer.
Her San Diego award winning band The Moves Collective is a driving force in the US music scene, supporting ideologies, companies and nonprofits that propel sustainability, inspire audiences to positively impact their local communities, and build positive change globally.
She blends international cultural influences, sacred instruments, healing modalities, improvised contemporary movement and dance, and original songs into unique performance experiences. Rae aims to inspire people to live at their highest potential, dream big, and achieve a sustainable and connected world. In fact, this year’s theme for her annual event Goddess Fest is Gaia, AKA Mother Earth. A self-identified eco musician committed to raising awareness of holistic healing, sustainable practices, and social justice, we couldn’t be more excited to have her with us today!
Links mentioned * TheGoddessFest.com * TheMovesCollective.com
Guest Contact information Rae Irelan
raejirelan@gmail.com
TheGoddessFest.com
TheMovesCollective.com
Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Joanna Engelberg is Sustainability Director at The New Denim Project, a third-generation family business that creates high-end eco-textiles made purposefully and ethically.
After five years in Israel with her sister Arianne -- Creative Director of The New Denim Project -- she came home to Guatemala passionate about environmental & social impact. They created a fully-closed loop system with 100% sustainable, conscious and patient textiles at its core. Their yarns, fabrics and products are made from upcycled pre-consumer textile waste from vast denim mills, reducing consumption of new products, minimizing the waste of raw virgin material and reusing discarded textiles and fibres to elongate their life span. Final cotton waste that cannot be spun is donated to farmers and coffee-growers to use as compost and serves as an organic fertilizer. As true eco innovators, the New Denim Project is fashioning zero waste, transparent style for people and the planet.
“The goal of the upcycle is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world with clean air, water, soil, and power—economically, equitably, ecologically, and elegantly enjoyed. Upcycling is the most exciting project of all. It’s going to take all of us. It’s going to take forever. And that’s the point.” - The Upcycle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart.
Links mentioned * The Upcycle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart * Good Guide * Better World Shopper
Guest Contact information Joanna Engelberg
The New Denim Project
joanna@iristextiles.com
www.TheNewDenimProject.com
@thenewdenimproject
Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Kira Carrillo Corser is a photojournalist, artist, and community leader with over 15 years of experience, publishing and exhibiting in 19 states across the US in venues such as the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. She taught "Arts and Community” for 8 years in Service Learning and taught as a Visual Art Consultant in Human Communications at CSU - Monterey Bay.
From art galleries, museums, universities, and national conferences to U.S. Congress in Washington D.C., Kira’s art knows no limits. Her goal remains: to produce works with artists and nonprofit organizations that aid and promote social justice or wellness and to consult for or teach individual and collaborative projects using art as a force for social action and visual literacy.
A special thank you to: Lisa Parsons, Co-Director of the Posts for Peace and Justice Project; Felecia (Fe Love) Lenee Williams and Sherretha Jackson, Youth Program Directors; and partners One Billion Rising, Compassionate CA, Compassionate ARTS in Action and First Night Monterey.
Rich Information and Resources Links * The many awards, accolades and grants of Kira Corser * Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego * Smithsonian * Cal State Monterey Bay * International CharterForCompassion.org * B Corp Movement * Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World * PostsForPeaceAndJustice.org * Cal State University San Marcos * San Diego Visual Arts Network and The DNA of Creativity * Diane Burko Photography and Diane Burko: Polar Expeditions in Photo and Paint podcast * SeaChanges.org * Endaranged: Exploring California’s Changing Ecosystems Sept 5 - 28th, 2017 at Mesa College * The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger * Compassionate California * Visual Voices: The Threat of the Dam * The CarterCenter.org * The National CivilAndHumanRights.org * OneBillionRising.org
Guest Contact information Kira Corser
Visual Arts Director
Art Connecting Communities
Fallbrook, CA
PostsForPeaceAndJustice.org
SeaChanges.org
KiraCorser.com
Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Bethany Kolody was introduced to biology during her time at NYU’s “world honors college,” in the Middle East, where she had the opportunity to study in Sri Lanka, Ghana, and China. There, she worked in Fabio Piano’s lab studying mRNA localization in C. elegans. It soon became apparent that she was more interested in the nematodes themselves than their mRNA, and for her capstone thesis she orchestrated the first molecular phylogenetic survey of marine nematodes across the Arabian Gulf.
Today a Ph.D. student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Bethany has decided to shift her focus to smaller, even more obscure organisms - marine microbes. Her cartoon comics, often printed on T-shirts, are at once scientifically accurate and gleefully unusual. The network of Squidtoons contributors of which she is a part dedicates itself to translating scientific research into engaging infographics to educate the public about science, provide educators with teaching tools, and support scientists with illustrations. Squidtoons takes pride in “illustrating science with farts, burps, and giggles.”
“And the plankton that spawned every tree,
They call me,
But no one knows, what makes them grow.
And they give us all the oxygen we need, so mankind breathes
And life can grow, but it could all change, what with climate change.”
~ Bethany Kolody, Moana parody on the importance of microbes.
Links mentioned WillDoodleForScience.com
SquidToons.com and Garfield Kwan
Will Doodle for Science on Etsy
TheOatmeal.com
Guest Contact information Bethany Kolody
bck243@gmail.com
WillDoodleForScience.com
Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Cherie Sampson is an artist working in environmental installation, performance and video art, creating projects in wilderness and rural settings in the U.S. and abroad, including woodland, mire and boreal landscapes. Historical, cultural and elemental layers of the site are integral to the working concepts and materials, where she often integrates her body in the landscape in performances for the camera and live audiences.
She has exhibited in live performances, art-in-nature symposia, video screenings and installations including in Finland, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, Cuba, Greece, France, and Hong Kong, and in U.S. galleries and festivals. A member of Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN) and two time winner of Fulbright Awards (1998, 2011), Cherie shares her experiences with Ag Arts, farm workers, found natural materials, ethnographic research, and arboreal forests.
Links Mentioned * CherieSampson.net * AgArts - imagine a healthy food system * Futurefarmers * Strive for Change Foundation - creating opportunities for the working poor * Cherie Sampson’s Videos on Vimeo
Guest Contact Information Cherie Sampson
sampsonch@missouri.edu
Cherie Sampson at the Art Department at the University of Missouri
Blue Heron Orchard - Certified Organic Apples and Products
Cherie on Faceboook
Purchase the podcast’s namesake Eco Music album "Let’s Talk About The Weather" on iTunes or Bandcamp.
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
A Wildlife Ranger turned ecological surveyor turned zero waste furniture artist, Jen Gardner started Forget Me Knot as a way to explore her creativity while producing low impact, long-lasting items for others. Destined to end up in landfill, be burnt or, at the very best, turned to wood pulp, Jen repaints and re-purposes wood into one-of-a-kind pieces, prolonging the life of lumber and sending custom pieces home with happy campers.
Above and beyond her craft, she uses Good Energy (a 100% sustainable energy supplier), gives monthly donations to The Woodland Trust and Soil Association, banks with ethical groups, limits the need to use chemicals on items and uses Ecosia (www.ecosia.org) search engine, where every search helps pay to plant a tree.
Guest Contact information Jen Gardner
ForgetMeKnot on the Etsy
ForgetMeKnot on Facebook
ForgetMeKnot on Instagram
The album that led to this podcast -- “Let’s Talk About The Weather” -- can be purchased HERE.
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Violinist and songwriter Alicia Previn has enjoyed many successful years recording, performing and touring with a variety of artists such as The Cages, The Young Dubliners, and Folding Mr. Lincoln on platforms from MTV to Jay Leno's Tonight Show. Today she illustrates the importance of sometimes-forgotten animals through songs and children’s books featuring her personal illustrations. A fan of bio-dynamic farming, her Earthworm Book includes instructions on how to start a small worm farm as well as a complementary tune. Give Bees a Chance and The Strange Disappearance of Walter Tortoise make Alicia’s point unmissable: these animals each play a pivotal role in addressing our ecological future.
Links mentioned * VIDEO: Give Bees A Chance Song from the Children's multimedia Ebook * The Earthworm Book and CD
Guest Contact information Alicia Previn
Lovely Previn Publications
www.AliciaPrevin.com
Alicia on WikiPedia
760-213-3722
lovelyprevinmusic@gmail.com
Twitter & Periscope: @lovelyprevin
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Diane Burko’s visual documentation through paint and photographs provide an outlet for her to respond and share her personal observations of climate change. Working along the intersection of art and science, she showcases expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic Circle with thousands of photographs from the air, sea and ground. Sharing the Earth’s astounding beauty, she also reveals the consequences of record breaking rapid ice melt at either end of our globe. After years of study and international collaboration with glacial geologists, her new book Diane Burko: Glacial Shifts, Changing Perspectives is finally complete. “It was no longer just about painting beautiful landscapes, but it was about figuring out a way to talk through my language of paint about this most urgent issue for our time, and for the future.” -- Diane Burko interview with Benjamin Orlove, Columbia University
Links mentioned Book: Glacial Shifts, Changing Perspectives
Guest Contact information Diane Burko
310 South Juniper Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
www.DianeBurko.com
www.DianeBurkoPhotography.com
burko@dianeburko.com
215-880-8466
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Chantal Bilodeau is a playwright and translator whose work focuses on the intersection of science, policy, culture, and climate change. She is the Artistic Director of The Arctic Cycle - an organization created to support the writing, development and production of eight plays that look at the social and environmental changes taking place in the eight countries of the Arctic - and the founder of the blog and international network Artists & Climate Change.
She is a co-organizer of the biennial Climate Change Theatre Action, a worldwide series of readings and performances of short climate change plays presented in support of the United Nations COP meetings.
Links mentioned * The Arctic Cycle * The Arctic Cycle on Facebook * Artists and Climate Change * Artists and Climate Change on Facebook
Chantal's Contact information * Chantal's website * Chantal on Facebook * Other Social Profiles: @cbilodeau1402, @TheArcticCycle, @ArtistsAndClimateChange
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
When documentaries turned this “normal” dude into a renowned professional adventurer, Rob Greenfield the creative activist was born. From biking across America with a minimal environmental footprint to staging public Food Waste Fiasco mandalas to tackling consumerism and accompanying garbage, Rob’s creative drive to protect this planet has taken him across the world. Keep track of his minimalist journeys and activism on www.RobGreenfield.tv.
Links mentioned * KitchensforGood.org * http://robgreenfield.tv/tedxfoodwastefiasco/ * NRDC.org * FeedingAmerica.org * RobGreenfield.tv/foodwasteguide * http://www.discoveryuk.com/shows/free-ride/ * RobGreenfield.tv/DIYactivism * RobGreenfield.tv/facebook * RobGreenfield.tv/nonprofits * RobGreenfield.tv/books * RobGreenfield.tv/films
Guest Contact information * Facebook: Rob Greenfield * Twitter: @RobJGreenfield * Instagram: @robjgreenfield * YouTube: Rob Greenfield
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
www.SpiralPacific.org
Oceanographer-journalist Cynthia Matzke divulges the making of her documentary film exploring ocean ecosystem connectivity. Spiral Pacific explores nine Northern Pacific Rim locations to document the intertwined ecosystems around this vast ocean basin and common human-caused stressors that contribute to the downward spiral: overfishing, ocean acidification, and the plastic pollution problem that chokes the sea with synthetic debris.
Topics with links mentioned * www.SpiralPacific.org * Kristen Victor Sustainability Matters * Scripps Institute for Oceanography * The video story of Spiral Pacific * The Water Brothers * Pangaea Explorations * The 5 Gyres Institute * Algalita Marine Research Foundation * Mission Bay High works to reduce plastic, increase fresh water * SIO for Sustainability * Sally Ride Science Academy * Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point * The IUCN World Conservation Congress * The Blue Revolution * Spiral Pacific: Exploring Ocean Ecosystem Connectivity
Guest Contact information Cynthia Matzke
Spiral Pacific
2110 Artesia Blvd, B249
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
www.SpiralPacific.org
Facebook: Spiral Pacific: Exploring Ocean Ecosystem Connectivity
Cynthia@SpiralPacific.org
(808) 357-0453
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
From drawing friends’ pets as a seven-year-old to “Re-Wilding” herself along the West coast of the U.S., Marissa Quinn’s journey in pen and ink tells many of nature’s stories. Documenting endangered species, colony collapse, and surfing with dolphins and pelicans, Marissa shares her perspective on endearing humans beyond typical apex predators and drawing a deeper connection to land and sea.
Links mentioned * Marisa Quinn Art - http://www.marissaquinn-art.com * Sea and Wander - https://sea-and-wander.com/pages/about * Copa Vida - http://www.copa-vida.com * Patagonia - http://www.patagonia.com/home/
Guest Contact information Marissa Quinn
760-518-3062
Email - marissaquinnart@gmail.com
Skype: marissa_quinn
Website - http://www.marissaquinn-art.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/marissaquinn/
www.LetsTalkAboutTheWeather.org
Professor Andrea Polli recounts how revolutions in weather computing and statements made by NASA scientists ignited her urgency to create eco-themed art. From lighting a Pittsburgh bridge with elegant wind turbines, to artistic display of air particulate matter, to transforming weather station information, Andrea is a bold model for eco artists everywhere.
Links mentioned
- Eco Art Project
- Mona Bismark CenterArtCOP21
- 90 Degrees South Project, Sonic Antarctica
- Clean Air Carolina
- A Song of our Warming Planet
- Leonardo
- Environmental artist Andrea Polli brings energy use to light with workshops
- Biolcultura
- William McDonough
- Paul Hawkins
Guest's Contact information
Andrea Polli, PhD
www.AndreaPolli.com
Mesa Del Sol Endowed Chair of Digital Media
Professor, Art & Ecology
Fine Arts and Engineering
University of New Mexico
Department of Art and Art History
MSC04 2560
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001