The World’s First Commercially Available Bioplastic 12-Inch Record

This split-single album features music by Michael Stipe and Beatie Wolfe

The world’s first commercially available sustainable bioplastic record will be a split single, featuring songs by Michael Stipe and Beatie Wolfe. Limited to 500 copies, and made by Evolution Music in collaboration with climate emergency organization EARTH/PERCENT, the album (available for pre-order today) comprises Stipe’s debut solo track “Future, If Future” and Wolfe’s “Oh My Heart.” Founded by Brian Eno, EARTH/PERCENT focuses on five key …

Data Journalist Mona Chalabi’s Uplifting Art Prints for Earth Day

Three limited edition works, produced in collaboration with Absolut Art, celebrate beautiful facts from the natural world

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Absolut Art tapped artist Mona Chalabi—an acclaimed data journalist, writer and TV producer—to translate optimistic, unchanging data into a series of limited edition prints. Drawn from statistics that celebrate the quiet beauty of the natural world, Chalabi’s visualizations bring numbers to life. She harnesses the joy in data and soothes the soul. “In the time it takes you …

24 Covers for the Washington Post’s Climate Change Issue

For 21 April’s issue of the Washington Post Magazine, their staff took a look back at the past year’s most important climate change-related stories and republished them with well-designed, poignant covers. Counting 24 in total, the full collection of covers and cover stories can be scrolled through online. Even though an entirely new issue full of current stories was possible, the Post felt that “the …