Juxtaposing beauty and destruction, the realistic and the uncanny, artist Jessica Bellamy crafts portraits inspired by her Southern California roots. In “Ambivalent Sunrise,” the artist highlights a burning palm tree amidst a dreamy sky to capture the critical state of the environment from a local, focused perspective. The 16 by 20 inch print, issued in a limited edition run of 10, is dated and signed …
Glasgow’s SWG3—a nightclub meets arts and performance space—has launched an initiative with geothermal energy consultancy TownRock Energy wherein the latter’s technology converts heat generated by dancers’ bodies at SWG3 into renewable energy. The energy will be used to heat and cool the venue, and promises to save up to 70 tonnes of CO2 each year. TownRock Energy founder David Townsend tells the BBC that a pump …
The way we eat undoubtedly needs to be transformed in order to curb climate change, but one area of the food system that’s often overlooked pertains to the “carbon pawprint”—aka pet food. A 2020 study by researchers based in the UK and Germany discovered that the pet food industry emits “as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as the total emissions of the Philippines or …
