Sea Change (Tionndadh na Mara)
Sea Change is a four-year Cape Farewell programme of research and making across Scotland’s western and northern isles
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Land, language, life on the Lewis moor
Alice Starmore, Donald S. Murray
Lewis artist, designer, photographer and author Alice Starmore writes in Earthlines of the cultural and ecological values of peatlands, and the threats they face not only as a result of climate change, but from the installation of large-scale windfarms. http://www.earthlines.org.uk/Assets/Text,%20pdfs/AliceStarmore.pdf SPHAGNUM MOSS Sphagnum moss remembers. It recalls the touchdown of each lark that tumbles... Read More ›
Sea Change in Green World
Arts & Ecology Issue, edited by James Brady: http://www.greenworld.org.uk/
See the article by Ruth Little on the Sea Change programme, along with pieces by Clive Adams, Dave Pritchard, Peter Gingold and Wallace Heim, and Jai Redman: www.greenworld.org.uk Read More ›
Scientists ask blunt question on everyone’s mind
Science, society, ethics: the new advocacy. Read about it here: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/12/is_earth_f_ked_at_2012_agu_meeting_scientists_consider_advocacy_activism.single.html Read More ›
Robert Macfarlane’s journey to the Shiant Isles
On Lewis community owned boat Broad Bay
See Robert Macfarlane’s account of a journey to the Shiant Isles with Ian Stephen on Lewis community-owned sgoth Broad Bay: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443524904577649524150261342.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Read More ›
Hear Stephen Hurrel on Radio 4
Listen on BBC iPlayer
Listen to Stephen Hurrel discussing his artist residency at the University of Aberdeen Lighthouse Field Station, Cromarty. Part of BBC Radio 4′s Saving Species series. Read More ›
Dùthchas na Mara – Belonging to the Sea
Downloadable publication by Iain MacKinnon, Ruth Brennan, Stephen Hurrel
New research on island fishermens’ relationship to the sea suggests cultural roots to Sound Of Barra dispute A new book investigating the cultural background to the ongoing maritime conflict in the Sound of Barra in the Western Isles is being published this week. The book, called ‘Dùthchas na Mara’ (‘Belonging to the Sea’), highlights... Read More ›
Kittiwake Faces Extinction in UK
Population Halves
Kittiwake sea bird could become extinct as population halves since the 1980s | Mail Online. Read More ›
Landscape Scar
Jennifer Wilcox
Landscape Scar by Jennifer Wilcox, from the ‘Hiort’ St Kilda series. Read More ›
Ten Proposals for the Ocean
From UNESCO at Rio+20
‘The changes that will be required to transition to a Blue-Green Economy will be a mix of physical, behavioural and institutional. The objectives below summarise the nature of changes that will be required. Each of the proposals presented in this section are compared against the objectives in the matrix; the purpose being to understand how... Read More ›
IPCC Report on Extreme Weather Events
Special Report
Special Report: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). This is the latest IPCC report and it looks at how climate change might create more extreme weather events. Read the IPCC’s latest report here http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/ With thanks to Diana Liverman, Co-Director, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona Read More ›
WAVE/ING at Aberdeen Maritime Museum. Jini Rawlings
26 May -1 September 2012
Aberdeen Maritime Museum 26 May – 1 September 2012 Jini Rawlings has produced new work based on the log of Aberdeen trawl skipper Alfred Craig and a 19th century journal by Elizabeth Jane Oswald. ‘Bound for Iceland’ combines Craig’s personal testimony from his posting to wartime Iceland with film footage from the artist’s voyage... Read More ›
Arctic Terns
Kenny Taylor
We call them ‘Arctic’ terns. But they could be ‘Antarctic’ terns, or ‘All-the-Ocean-in-Between’ terns. For during one twelve-month period, these beautiful seabirds breed in the northern world, fly down across the Equator and winter far beyond. Arctic terns are the commonest kind of tern breeding in Britain and Ireland. You can see them around Mull and many other parts... Read More ›
Scots Pine and Juniper, Knoydart
Steve McQueen
Glasgow artist/maker Steve McQueen uses drawing, paint, photography and film to communicate the complexity of environmental ‘edges’ – borders between ecological zones in a constant process of change/exchange. http://www.facebook.com/SteveJMcQueen http://www.stevejohnmcqueen.blogspot.co.uk/ Read More ›
Culture, Climate, Young People
Thoughts on speaking about climate change
Bill McKibben, Founder of 350.org, author and environmental activist, shares his thoughts on speaking with young children about global warming and climate change. Read More ›
Bird Species & Climate Change
The Global Status Report
The Global Status Report: A synthesis of current scientific understanding of anthropogenic climate change impacts on global bird species now, and projected future effects. Read More ›
Abundance
Community Investment in Renewable Energy
Pioneering individual and community investment in renewable energy projects Abundance Generation is a new platform that lets small investors put their money directly into tangible, productive and sustainable assets – earning an attractive return from investing in UK renewable energy projects. Hundreds of communities and tens of thousands of individuals across the UK will be... Read More ›
St Kilda / Hiort
Jennifer Wilcox/Ian McNee
A view from the edge Walking around the seabird colonies of St Kilda today is a very different experience from what it would have been 100 years ago. There has been a drastic decline in seabird numbers during the 20th century and through to the new millennium. At the time of the evacuation of St... Read More ›
Archive Letter
Jennifer Wilcox
Archive Letter by Jennifer Wilcox, from the ‘Hiort’ St Kilda series. Read More ›
Plane Crash
Jennifer Wilcox
Plane Crash by Jennifer Wilcox, from the ‘Hiort’ St Kilda series. Read More ›
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- Jon and NoraLee Sedmak
