Hot Latin Calendar Draws Attention to Climate Change, Extinction, Conservation
Puerto Rican Alessandra Rampolla embodies global warming as the January image for the Ecological Footprint calendar. As reported by Treehugger, the Ecological Footprint calendar is a collaboration between the Azara Foundation and fashion photog Gaby Herbstein to raise awareness of global environmental issues. Super-creative and totally gorgeous shots, all! Very…
Eco Fashion Basics: An Ode to the Perfect Little Black Dress
Wearing my Carol Young LBD at the Mini Exhibit at the Go Green Expo in LA. It is only this year, my 32nd, that I have truly understood the value of the Little Black Dress. Of course I have heard the legend; what woman hasn’t? This mythical raiment could be…
Heart of Recycled Glass: Ellen Blakeley Studio Reuses Waste to Create Mosaic Art
Best In Show, Mosaic Art NOW, “Meredith” by Ellen Blakeley (shattered safety glass and various surface treatments on Live Oak tree bark) Ellen Blakeley is the creator of stunning handmade recycled glass mosaic tiles. Blakeley’s mosaic artistry, expressed in both her decorative tiles and fine arts projects, was recently recognized…
Copenhagen's (COP15) Amazing Green Art
No successful movement works without important art. Where would the hippies have been without their unique (ehm, hallucinogenic) posters, 2nd wave feminism without all those novels and creative nonfiction writings, the Vietnam protests without the music, or Civil Rights without heart-wrenching photography? Not only did these pieces of art change…
Green Spaces NY Launch: A Place for Ecopreneurs
Roberto Rhett, Partner, Green Spaces NY with Sentinel Lights (wire hangers and cardboard) by Susan Benarcik. Green Spaces New York has just launched its Manhattan clubhouse to grow a community of green entrepreneurs. The NYC initiative joins Denver’s Green Spaces Colorado in designing a green workspace and in founding a…
Behind the Scenes of the Project Green Search Model Competition Finals
Project Green Search, the first-ever green model competition, has a winner! Rachel Avalon hails from Los Angeles, California, and beat out over 130 other serious contenders for her new title as Green It Girl (read more about Rachel and her plans here). But before the winner was chosen, there were…
Eco Artist Claire Morgan: Ecological Order and Disorder
Fantastic Mr Fox, 2008. Torn black polythene bags, taxidermied fox, nylon, acrylic, rabbit meat 2.4m (h) x 2.4m (d) x 2m (w) Exhibited at the James Hockey Gallery, UCA, Farnham, UK Photo courtesy of Claire Morgan Visual artist Claire Morgan, who hails from Belfast and now lives in London, stages…
