You are invited to participate in @WhatsNextForEarth’s art call “Pollution (created by greenhouse gases)” open until May 31st, 2021. What’s Next for Earth is a participative art project based on Instagram that invites the community to respond to a monthly topic, reflecting on the human predicament. A selection of the contributions is published on the MAHB Arts Community Page
The Art Call
In 2021, What’s Next for Earth proposes to go through The Post Carbon Institute’s FREE online course THINK RESILIENCE, one lesson at a time. Please sign up at education.resilience.org (it’s easy!).
– Please watch the introductory video (lesson 1)
– Energy, (lesson 2)
– Population and Consumption (lesson 3).
– Depletion (lesson 4)
– Pollution (Lesson 5) – Excerpt:
[…] There is controversy as well about how we might capture carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it for a long time. As the threats of the climate crisis become increasingly clear, our remaining “carbon budget” shrinks. More and more attention is being paid to what are called negative emissions technologies. But many of these technologies—with the exception of natural ways to sequester carbon in soils and trees—are theoretical, unproven, or unscalable. Altogether, climate change poses a series of enormous challenges, including:
● How can we rapidly reduce the use of fossil fuels without risking unacceptable economic contraction?
● How can we reduce the use of fossil fuels fairly?
● How can we protect nations and communities that are most vulnerable to climate change?
● How can we take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it so as to reduce the severity of climate change? The stakes could hardly be higher. Climate change threatens not just our own species, but millions of others as well. If we don’t solve this single pollution problem, the fate not just of civilization, but of most of the planet’s species may hang in the balance.
PLEASE READ THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE VIDEO HERE if you do not get the chance to watch the video.
Think Resilience Course
"Acting without this understanding is like putting a bandage on a life-threatening injury."
Think Resilience is hosted by Richard Heinberg, one of the world’s leading experts on the urgency and challenges of moving society away from fossil fuels.
We live in a time of tremendous political, environmental, and economic upheaval. What should we do?
Think Resilience is an online course offered by Post Carbon Institute to help you get started on doing something. It features twenty-two video lectures—about four hours total—by Richard Heinberg, one of the world’s foremost experts on the urgency and challenges of transitioning society away from fossil fuels. Think Resilience is rooted in Post Carbon Institute’s years of work in energy literacy and community resilience. It packs a lot of information into four hours, and by the end of the course you’ll have good start on two important skills:
1. How to make sense of the complex challenges society now faces. What are the underlying, systemic forces at play? What brought us to this place? Acting without this understanding is like putting a bandage on a life-threatening injury.
2. How to build community resilience. While we must also act in our individual lives and as national and global citizens, building the resilience of our communities is an essential response to the 21st century’s multiple sustainability crises.
How to participate in the Art Call
1. Create your piece using any format/technique you wish.
2. Post it on your Instagram page. Include a description of your piece in your photo’s caption: title, technique, and size, the relationship with the theme.
Copy and paste all these tags at the end of your description:
#AirPollution #artcall
@WhatsNextForEarth
@mahbglobal
@postcarboninstitute
#extractionart
#mahbstanfordarts
#WhatsNextForEarth
#ecoart
#artactivism
#humanpredicament
#mahbartscommunity
#anthropocene
#climateemergency
#climatechange
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What’s Next for Earth is a project created in April 2020 by Michele Guieu, ecoartist, art educator, and MAHB Arts Community Coordinator. If you have any questions about the project or this art call, please send a message to michele@mahbonline.org