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    Alicia Lubowski-Jahn is an art history Ph.D. student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her dissertation explores the relationship between nineteenth-century landscape art, travel, and ecology in the work of the Prussian scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. She has worked for several museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Frick Collection. Of Venezuelan and Uruguayan family origin, she is married to an Austrian and is always struggling to learn German. In addition to being an art historian, she likes to go with the flow and has practiced yoga and Gyrotonic® for over a decade. Her interest in eco art and sustainable design fuses her passion for creativity and beauty with a desire to live mindfully and connected to spirit. She lives in New York.

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    An Emporium of Green: Sustainable NYC

    One of the best things about Sustainable NYC is that it is a little bit of everything.
    This eclectic shop in the equally eclectic East Village (139 Avenue A/ 9th Street ) of Manhattan is self-described as an emporium of “local, organic, recycled, fair-trade, re-purposed, biodegradable products and gifts.”  Yeah!  And if that weren’t enough greening going on, [...]

    Brainforest: How Does Community Sustain Us?

    Brainforest is a Chicago-based creative agency that has integrated an ethos of social service (people) and sustainability (planet) into the workplace (profit).  The Triple Bottom Line  seems to come effortlessly to a company that volunteers at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, dedicates pro bono service per annum to a specially selected client, including the Gilda’s Club [...]

    Overlooked By the Golden Globes

    The team at  Free Range Studios  is responsible for some amazing creative projects that put across the sustainability message.  Their Story of Stuff  with Annie Leonard has reached millions around the world raising awareness about the flow of objects as they move through the materials economy (breaking down the stages of stuff into extraction, production, distribution, consumption, [...]

    Nomad Two Worlds: Aboriginal Australian Art in NYC

    January 22-29, 2009
    DONNA KARAN Stephan Weiss Studio 711 Greenwich Street (Corner of Charles Street) NYC

    Urban Zen (founded by fashion designer Donna Karan) is hosting at the Stephan Weiss Studio a presentation of Australian aboriginal art and culture inspired by the Australian government’s reconciliation movement.  The week-long G’Day USA Australia Week is offered in the spirit of [...]

    Human/Nature: Artists Respond To A Changing Planet

     
    If San Diego’s sunny disposition isn’t enough reason to migrate there this winter, then the city’s Human/Nature: Artists Respond To A Changing Planet  exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art is certainly a special, added draw. 
    The show gathers the work of eight international artists, each commissioned to respond to one of eight UNESCO World Heritage Natural [...]