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Tory Stephens posted an update: This year's Imagine 2200 call for submissions will close […]

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:04:50 -0400

This year’s Imagine 2200 call for submissions will close on June 24 at 11:59 PM PST.

Review your story, make your final edits, and get it in.

Links in the comment section.

Susan Kaye Quinn posted an update in the group EDC Book Club: Just finished reading THE LIGHT EATERS, a book about […]

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 21:10:30 -0400

Just finished reading THE LIGHT EATERS, a book about the raging scientific controversy happening right now about plant intelligence, and I highly recommend it — would be a great Book Club book or just for your own reading. Super relevant to a novel I’m writing but also a perspective shift in renegotiating our relationship with nature, something…

Lynn Neuman posted an update: Sharing upcoming Immersive Performance Tours Along […]

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:44:01 -0400

Sharing upcoming Immersive Performance Tours Along the Gowanus Canal, an experience that brings audiences to various locations in Gowanus, Brooklyn for site performances and a walking tour providing perspectives on this rapidly changing area. Each tour date has its own theme and is led by experts in the respective area:

Saturday, June 29:…

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Immersive Performance Tours Along the Gowanus Canal — Artichoke Dance Company

Immersive performance tour of Gowanus on 6/29, 6/30, 7/13 and 7/14 combine site performances with a walking tour guided by experts in native plants, street art, water and environmental justice in Gowanus.

Richard Fadok posted a new post.

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:59:34 -0400

The Multispecies Metropolis: A Photo Archive of a Student Design Exhibition

Whether domesticated or wild, nonhuman animals visibly and invisibly inhabit spaces made by human architects, for human occupants, or at least to satisfy human needs.…

Inna Alesina posted an update: Our project Gifts of Time, Space, & Attention, […]

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:50:20 -0400

Our project Gifts of Time, Space, & Attention, received notable mention in speculative design category/ design awards 2024/core 77

https://designawards.core77.com/speculative-design/127174/Gifts-of-Time-Space-Attention

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Gifts of Time, Space, & Attention - by Inna Alesina | Carter Brigham / Core77 Design Awards

Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Green Building: “The cities of the future should experiment with […]

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:38:32 -0400

“The cities of the future should experiment with architecture, but in service of making spaces more livable and sustainable, not simply iconic.”

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Anand Pandian posted an update in the group EDC Book Club: Hi everyone, a reminder that our Book Club continues […]

Tue, 28 May 2024 13:37:06 -0400

Hi everyone, a reminder that our Book Club continues this month in a conversation with anthropologist Chloe Ahmann, author of the powerful and compelling new book Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. We’ll be chatting with Chloe about the book at 11am ET on Wednesday, May 29th. Details here, along with a link to…

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EDC Book Club: Futures After Progress by Chloe Ahmann

Please RSVP to join the EDC Book Club later this month for a discussion of Chloe Ahmann's new book, Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore. Cornell University anthropologist Chloe Ahmann will be joining us for the … Continue reading

Mark Cyzyk posted an update in the group EDC Book Club: https://www.salon.com/2024/05/03/why-climate-change-action-re […]

Fri, 03 May 2024 13:09:20 -0400

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/03/why-climate-change-action-requires-degrowth-to-make-our-planet-sustainable

Interview with Kohei Saito, author of Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto.

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Why climate change action requires "degrowth" to make our planet sustainable

Salon spoke with Japanese philosophy professor Kohei Saito about his new book, "Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto"

Anand Pandian posted an update in the group Climate Imaginarium: So good to have @Grey with us in the Climate […]

Wed, 01 May 2024 16:43:21 -0400

So good to have @Grey with us in the Climate Imaginarium! Here’s a recent feature on their climate music voyaging at sea for the last several years…

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/13/we-had-a-third-of-the-earth-to-ourselves-the-band-thats-spent-four-years-touring-the-world-by-sea

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‘We had a third of the Earth to ourselves’: the band that’s spent four years touring the world by sea

The husband-wife duo Filastine and Nova and their ragtag crew have circled the globe twice on a boat which doubles as a stage – and a call for climate action

Grey Filastine replied to the discussion Welcome to the Climate Imaginarium! in the forum Climate Imaginarium

Wed, 01 May 2024 14:56:13 -0400

Reply to Welcome to the Climate Imaginarium!

Hello, I’m Grey Filastine, I release ‘electronic’ music as Filastine ( easily found on all the platforms), make videos (also on the internet, in festivals, or mapped onto buildings or ships), and live performances. Most relevant to y’all might be Arka Kinari, a 60-ton sailing ship that transforms into a floating stage to raise the alarm…Read more

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ARKA KINARI

Anand Pandian posted a new post.

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 22:09:29 -0400

Degrowth Utopias in the 70s and Today: A Conversation with Anthony Galluzzo

The EDC Book Club met on Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 to talk with New York-based writer and academic Anthony Galluzzo about his new book, Against…

Kristin Brig-Ortiz posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities Working Group: We're taking a short break to recover from the semester […]

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:26:16 -0400

We’re taking a short break to recover from the semester and will be back on Monday, May 20th at 2pm EST! We’ll be kicking off our summer meeting schedule with selections from Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021). I’ll upload the PDFs to our folder when I have them.

We’ll see you next month!

jordan posted an update: Thursday May 2, 6:00pm at Ivy Bookshopclick below for […]

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:55:59 -0400

Thursday May 2, 6:00pm at Ivy Bookshop

click below for info and sign-up

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/turning-the-page-on-last-centurys-energy-system-to-address-climate-change-tickets-877970973817?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Turning the Page on Last Century’s Energy System to Address Climate Change

Representatives from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine discuss pathways to a clean energy future.

Inna Alesina posted a new event.

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:10:06 -0400

Inna Alesina posted an update: Plant Bullies / watercolor exchangeAs part of the “Gifts […]

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:01:25 -0400

Plant Bullies / watercolor exchange

As part of the “Gifts of Time, Space, & Attention” project, Inna Alesina is offering to paint an original watercolor commissioned by participants in exchange for their removal of a non-native invasive plant from their property.

Opening reception | May 2 from 6-9PM
Alchemy of Art Gallery,
1637 Eastern Ave,…

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Kristine Roome posted an update in the group ECO-ARTs: Dear Eco-Arts Group - Reminder - Tomorrow at […]

Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:55:43 -0400

Dear Eco-Arts Group –

Reminder – Tomorrow at 4pm (EST)

https://community.ecodesigncollective.org/event/a-conversation-with-mary-mattingly-online/

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A Conversation with Mary Mattingly [ONLINE]

Join the Ecological Design Collective for a discussion with this year's Guggenheim Fine Arts Fellowship recipient Mary Mattingly. Mattingly is known for merging art, environmental activism, and education. She tackles sustainability, climate change, and displacement through photography, performance, portable architecture, and … Continue reading

Anand Pandian posted an update: So grateful for the Fix It Fair community event hosted […]

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 18:12:13 -0400

So grateful for the Fix It Fair community event hosted today in Baltimore by the Station North Tool Library. Wonderfully diverse crowd and creative volunteer energy as broken things were tinkered with and the weight of what was spared a landfill fate recorded. Fixed the big bag we use to cart around the EDC pop-up dome, among other things!