New Eco-designs in NYC!!!!

Mayor Bloomberg unveils $20B plan to build new NYC defenses against climate change

Construction begins now, but will fall to his successor to finish

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/11/4420408/mayor-bloomberg-20b-plan-nyc-defenses-climate-change

City seeks green filtration to purify polluted waters of Westchester Creek  

The East River tributary, which runs from Ferry Point Park in the southeast Bronx to Westchester Village, is contaminated with untreated sewage — good old human waste — during heavy rains, and the problem has gone unchecked for more than 60 years.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/green-fix-fetid-waterway-article-1.1432244#ixzz2inG8Y1ex

On my way to school this morning on Church Ave, Brooklyn .... :(

 

SONGS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT, GLOBAL WARMING

http://audio.tutsplus.com/articles/general/top-8-songs-about-climate-change/


NY MAP

http://www.nycgo.com/maps

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has a great site for more information about climate change.  Check it out and think about questions you may have for next week's class. :)

Week 1

Hello everyone!

Thanks for a great first day!  I've included some of the images from our first class along with links to various websites.  Feel free to browse through them at your leisure.

A lot of students were interested in Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty.  His website:
http://www.robertsmithson.com/ has more information on the Jetty, as well as other environmental artworks.  I recommend scanning through his drawings, sculptures, and earthworks!

http://www.animalnewyork.com/tag/hurricane-sandy/
ANIMAL has a lot of interesting articles on/images from Hurricane Sandy.  Definitely take a look and keep ANIMAL in mind as daily news source on local art, culture, news, politics, and activities in NYC.

Photographers!  This is a cool collection of iphone photos from the hurricane sandy disaster:
http://www.animalnewyork.com/2013/striking-iphone-photos-of-sandy-collected-in-new-book/

RIVERS AND TIDES - Andy Goldsworthy Documentary 2003.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGFOLChNOak
We briefly mentioned Andy Goldsworthy's work in class.  I found his full documentary on youtube, if anyone is interested in learning more about his work.  It's a gorgeous movie.  Highly recommend you check it out.

http://www.heidelberg.org/
The Heidelberg Project recreates a series of housing complexes on Heidelberg Street in Detroit, MI using found, recycled, and upcycled materials.  Their website provides more information for you-- I recommend checking out the photo gallery for more images of their houses.

CLIMATE CHANGE

for adults
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO46sPwm4xk

for children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko6GNA58YOA




SHORT STOP MOTION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA9pq6cqyZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMd8IXGrAQ0


PHOTOGRAPHS ON GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE

http://ecoble.com/2009/02/14/20-amazing-images-attributed-to-global-warming/

Project Ideas!

Dutch artist Henk Hofstra is back with a new environmental art project called ‘Art Eggcident’ in Leeuwarden, a city in the north of the Netherlands.
Several large eggs (each 100 feet wide) were spread on th Zaailand, one of the largest city squares in the Netherlands.

Nele Azevedo “Melting Men” project

He is an award winning Brazilian sculptor, artist and researcher.

He created 1000 tiny figures out of ice and placed them on the steps of the concert hall in Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt Square. His Melting Men ice sculpture installations are meant to bring awareness  to warn that melting ice could cause sea levels to rise more than 3.3 feet by 2100. The sculptures are intended to highlight the direct effect of climate change in the Arctic and the future of humanity and nature on the planet as a whole.  In Berlin where the temperature was about 23 celsius the figures started melting within about a half hour.

AWARENESS POSTER INSPIRATION

NYC IN 2063 PROJECT INSPIRATION

Inspirations
Projects

http://www.pinterest.com/msjoni56/global-warming/

http://climatechangeeducation.org/art/visual_arts/artists/index.html

Hurricane/Tornado Damage

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-after-landfall/100396/

A dead deer lies among driftwood and debris left by a combination of storm surge from Hurricane Sandy and high tide in Southampton, New York, on October 30, 2012.

The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic tropical system on record, brought strong winds and dangerous flooding to the East Coast from the mid-Atlantic states to New England.(Reuters/Keith Bedford) 

Yellow cabs line a flooded street in Queens, New York in hurricane Sandy's wake. 

    Seaside Heights, NJ; Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy [Photo credit: MICHAEL REYNOLDS / EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Hurricane Katrina caused widespread damage and killed over 1,800 people (Reuters)

In Katrina's wake. Flooding in south New Orleans in 2005. Scientists say that evidence is mounting that humans are contributing to climate change, and thus, stronger storms like Hurricane Katrina.

A storm rolls across a Montana prairie at sunset - photo by Sean Heavey

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