EcoArt

http://growingplantsindoors.com/indoor-gardens/
Here is a cool site about indoor gardens. One of the features is a PC case made into a hydroponic set up!

http://gatortimes.ufl.edu/2010/03/29/thirst-a-forum-on-water-quality-and-management-issues/ on campus talk about water purity issues

ecofeminism

I was reading an article about teaching environmental art, and I came across the term "ecofeminism". When I had heard this term before, I assumed that ecofeminists were just feminists who cared about the environment. The more I read up on it, however, I realized that being an ecofeminist meant disaproving the hierarchal structure which exists between humans, nature, and other organisms. It also links the subordination of women and other minorities to the subordination of nature. I didn't know there was a term for seeking equality between humans and nature, and I'd just thought I'd share this in case anyone else didn't know, either. Here is the Wiki page on ecofeminism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofeminism

From gainesvillecreeks.org

I thought of Rachel's project when I saw this

Superfund 365 and Baile Oakes

Here is the site I was talking about although I was wrong about them wanting you to send in photos, it was a one year project that started in 2008 where they visited 365 Superfund sites all over the U.S., Koppers was one of them. It is a great site to look at because there is a lot of information on each of the sites and on Superfund in general (there is even a list of the top 25 responsible parties, Chevron is #1 with 63 sites across the U.S.). I really like the way they present the information and anyone interested in web design should check it out:
http://turbulence.org/Works/superfund/index.php?offset=167
Also here is the artist Baile Oakes to get an idea of interactive educational art that we may want to pursue for the collaborative project:
http://greenmuseum.org/artist_index.php?artist_id=13

http://a.parsons.edu/~joseph/k2/gameoflife/

this is a weird little thing I stumbled on

Help the enviroment and get free swag

Did you know that the majority of plastic bottle caps do not get recycled? Instead, often these caps become trash or litter, ending-up in landfills and on beaches, or washing into our rivers and oceans. Birds and marine life mistake caps for food with tragic results. The magnitude of this pollution problem is devastating to our oceans and wildlife. During the recycling process, caps are sorted from the bottles and discarded as garbage. In some circumstances, if a cap does not come off a bottle during compression, the entire bottle is discarded.
Please send us the minimum of 50 caps and we will send you a gift. Make a difference.

Caps accepted for recycling are rigid polypropylene plastic, sometimes noted with a 5 in the chasing arrows recycling symbol. This includes caps that twist on with a threaded neck such as caps on shampoo, water, soda, milk and other beverage bottles, flip top caps on tubes and food product bottles (such as ketchup and mayonnaise), laundry detergents and some jar lids such as peanut butter. Excluded from collection are pharmaceutical lids and non rigid lids such as yogurt lids, tub lids (margarine, cottage cheese), and screw on lids that are not rigid. If you can bend or break the lid with your bare hands, then it does not meet the rigid plastic definition. Please do not include any metal lids or plastic pumps or sprayers.

You will flip your lid gift
17822-B Gillette Ave
Irvine, Ca. 92614

http://www.ezekielusa.com/#dearDiary-You_will_flip_your_lid-625

Bee College

On March 12-13^th, the UF Honey Bee Research and Extension lab will be offering the 3^rd annual Bee College at UF Whitney Marine labs in St. Augustine, FL. The Bee College is Florida’s largest educational honey bee/pollinator event, and is open to everyone. We have beginner and advanced tracks, as well as classes for those who don’t even keep bees (gardening for bees, bumble bee biology, native pollinators of Fl, etc!).

We have over 20 speakers from around the country, several hands-on workshops, and of course our annual honey show. A complete schedule, speaker bios, general info, and honey show rules can be found at www.UFhoneybee.com (click Bee College on the left). There is a discount for County Agents, Master Gardeners, Master Beekeeper program participants, Students, Kids, and Master Naturalists.

In addition, we will be offering a restricted use pesticide certification class, African bee training for First Responders and Pest Control Operators, and USDA-ID/FABIS African bee identification training, with anticipated CEU credits offered.

For a complete brochure, please see www.UFhoneybee.com!

Here is a cool little experiment in urban gardening, http://www.windowfarms.org/.

Plastic Bags!

While perusing Instructables.com (a DIY site I highly recommend) I found that they have a whole section on re-purposing plastic bags: http://www.instructables.com/id/Plastic_Bags/
Though it makes me sad that my method is hardly original and much more labor-intensive, these methods are incredibly exciting! Expect to see a lot more recycled woven baggage!

Earth Hour March 27 8:30-9:30 local time

Here is the site for Earth Hour 2010:
https://www.myearthhour.org/home
Aside from individuals, cities around the world sign up to turn off all non-essential lighting in government buildings. You can lobby your city to become one of those. Universities, schools, organizations and businesses can also sign up for it. UF is currently not listed to participate.

Ideas For Collaboration ! ! ! ! !

river cleanup and make individual work inspired by the process, maybe use debris? group show. something else local to this area, the prairie, creeks, gainesvillecreeks.org

gainesville coop community involvement, sustainability, make something(food) to sell with coop/kitchen

in the mode of Baile Oakes, interactive work , visualization tool, audience controlled outcome, ability to make choices and see how it affects something

       Subcategories to be smaller part of above ideas:

       catalina's stamp project make showcard

       Make a documentary (diversity of Gainesville, multiple viewpoints)

       Must have a finite goal

Make a difference!

Greenpeace Semester Internships

The Greenpeace Organizing Term (http://www.greenpeace.org/got) is currently accepting applications for semester internships. The GOT will give you the skills and experience you need to tackle some of the biggest environmental issues on the globe.

The Organizing Term is a hands-on training program designed to give you hands on experience to learn how to be a leader in the environmental movement in your community.

During the semester, you’ll learn about current environmental issues and solutions while being trained by experts in grassroots organizing, leadership, media and campaign strategy.

You’ll have the opportunity to travel during the Greenpeace Expedition, learn how to engage in peaceful direct action, and plan on work on real Greenpeace campaigns.

On top of all of that, many students are able to receive class credit for the semester.

Apply today! Spaces in the are filling up quickly, and early applications for Summer and Fall 2010 are due March 1.

Apply at http://www.greenpeace.org/got.

The semester is offered in the Washington D.C. and San Francisco Greenpeace offices.

If you have any questions about the program, contact got@wdc.greenpeace.org or (415) 255-9194.

The Self-Sufficient Life

To those who were wondering, The Self-Sufficient Life is at http://brineandpine.com/selfsufficient/

Commenting is enabled so feel free to make suggestions :]

La Casa De Botellas

check out this article about a house made from plastic bottles. It's a creative construction!

Post to Blogs

We mentioned some blogs for DIY stuff today, and I've mentioned suggesting pages to be re-posted on popular blogs; these are a few to check out:

http://makezine.com/

http://www.instructables.com/

http://boingboing.net/

http://www.designboom.com/eng/

http://www.planet-mag.com/blog

Woo!

http://www.artistsrespond.org/about

look under exhibitions at the online gallery

Free University of Gainesville

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=41918838648

http://www.myspace.com/fugainesville

These are the links to the Facebook and Myspace pages of Free University. This is the organization I was talking about during Paul's crit as a possible way for Paul to teach his bag making. Anyone can teach a class and anyone can take a class. No one pays or gets paid. I thought maybe others might be interested in teaching or taking classes.

Harvest by Asif Khan

Hey Lisa...

I ran across this on Dezeen magazine website: http://www.dezeen.com/2010/02/11/harvest-by-asif-khan/

Asif Khan is a London designer, and he produced this installation of chairs and tables made of freeze-dried flowers. Made me think of your project one proposal...you should check it out, hope it helps :)