Years – A Record Player That Can Read Tree Rings
Tree-rings can tell us stories about the lives of trees. Tree rings can be analyzed for strength, thickness and rate of growth. This information can give clues about the growth rate of the tree, and give information about droughts, fires, floods, or other natural events. German artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has created a record-player which is capable of digitally reading tree-slices [...]
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Environmentalism History: Rachel Carson’s Book Silent Spring 50 Years Later Podcast
2012 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. This book which was first published in 1962 is credited with sparking the beginning of the modern environmental movement, especially in the United States. Silent Spring addressed the effects of pesticides on the environment, focusing primarily on birds. Carson critiqued the chemical industry of spreading incorrect [...]
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Winner of the GOOD Bike Photo and Bike Story Contest
I haven’t been riding my bike here during the Winter in Cleveland, but I do think about when it is a little warmer and I pump up the tires and start to ride it again. Individuals who ride bikes usually have a strong bond to their bike, and lots of bike stories. Some of my memorable bike moments include almost [...]
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Green and Sustainability – What does the word green mean?
Where did the word green come from? The word’s earliest roots are with the Proto-Indo-Europeans, a loose collection of tribes that were the earliest agricultural communities. They used the word gro to mean grow. In Northern Europe, the West Germanic people used the word gronj for the color green. In the Dark Ages, when the Saxons (who were groups of [...]
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Recology San Francisco: Artists in Residents at the City Dump
Recoogy San Francisco is a unique Artist in Residence program in San Francisco, CA at the city’s waste management and transfer plant (also known as “the dump.) In this program, artists are given an opportunity to work with discarded materials at the site, receive a stipend, and get access to a studio space at the Recology Solid Waste Transfer and [...]
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