Artist I am digging

This is just one example of  artwork by Mara Adamtz Scrupe, this is a solar powered sculpture made from resin tree, it also has a solar powered irrigation system built into it. Why you would need to water it I have no idea, but this and the others projects  on here website where beautiful, formal and conceptually.

This particular piece is located in Savannah Georgia at the College of Art and Design. 

PLATFORM- Oil & Poverty

This is a link to an article by the group PLATFORM. There goal is reducing the impact of oil corporation. As has been mentioned in class in the past several weeks the impoverished are the ones that suffer the brunt of others profit. This site explains clearly the local,national,regional, and global impact of mining for fossil fuels

http://www.carbonweb.org/showitem.asp?article=64&parent=61

"World Climate Bank" could manage CO2 emissions

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4616955,00.html

A "world climate bank," the WBGU suggested, could help manage "accounts" and emissions reduction targets. The scientists hope the German government will take the proposal to the international climate summit in Copenhagen in December.

Bill to Pass

THE SUMMARY OF THE BILL

http://kerry.senate.gov/cleanenergyjobsandamericanpower/pdf/Summary.pdf

THE BILL
http://kerry.senate.gov/cleanenergyjobsandamericanpower/pdf/Overview.pdf

You Be the Judge 

This is a link to the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. This is the full bill that senator John Kerry is proposing.

Link to website Itself

http://kerry.senate.gov/cleanenergyjobsandamericanpower/intro.cfm

Kentuckiana Green Website

http://www.courier-journal.com/kentuckiana-green

Another web-site blog.

This is a nice one because it gives links to other blog sites and interesting dinner table conversation topics.

Terri Blanton: website link social justice activist

 I heard a moving speech from social/enviromental activist Terry Blanton. She has fought long and hard for those who have suffered at the hand of big business and coal mining companies.

Her big cause is moving away from the use of fossil fuels 

The artwork at the LVAA show Americans Who Tell The Truth. She was an individual who was painted by artist Robert Shetterly.

http://teriblanton.org/Teri_Blantons_Web_Site/Welcome.html

Mountain Top Removal: In your backyard.

Artist  Cynthia Ryan Kelly that I saw in 2006 at the Louisville Visual Art Association show at the water tower.

This artwork falls more along the style of folk-art. It was a very moving show.

Under each of the painting where captions which describe the kind of things that happen to those who live around these destruction sight. 

http://www.louisvillevisualart.org/mountaintop.html