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Spotlight on Theaster Gates…
More about the intersection between environment, social, racial, economic and cultural structures. Theatre Gates is a potter, city planner and social activist…
Spotlight on Enrique Penlarosa…
Excerpt from Project to Public Spaces article. Enrique Penalosa public official, economist, and administrator, Enrique Peñalosa completed his three-year term as Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia on December 31, 2000. While mayor, Peñalosa was responsible for numerous and radical improvements to the city and its citizens. He promoted a city model giving priority to children and […]
Spotlight on John Francis – The Planet Walker…
John Francis is the founder of PlanetWalker and he walked for 22 years and was silent for 17 years. He is an environmentalist of colour, leader of Planet Walker…
Spotlight on Carolyn Finney
Im a person first before anything… Read her book – Black Faces, Whites Spaces. Its brilliant. “180 years of middle passage, 246 years of slavery, rape and abuse, 100 years of losery freedom: black codes, convict leasing, Jim Crow…all codified by our national institutions. Lynching, medical experimentation, red lining, disenfranchisement, grossly unequal treatment in almost […]
Cowspiracy
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today – and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, water consumption and pollution, is responsible […]
On the Second Day there were Giant Turtles…
Ah yes no turtle doves in this post but instead Giant Turtles. An estimated 110 million years is how long sea turtles have existed on Earth, which means they once shared the planet with T-Rex and other dinosaurs. They can also hold their breath for 5 hours. To accomplish this mighty feat they slow their […]