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Environmental and Economic Benefits of Building Solar in California, IBEW-NECA Zero Net Energy Center, San Leandro
Multimediale Präsentation von Erfolgsgeschichten aus dem Umweltinnovationsprogramm des Umweltbundesamtes
Photo of a field with the technique of conservation farming in the village of Thiogo mossi commune Koudougou.
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On July 1, we were honored and grateful to have many interested parties over at our warehouse to learn more about the GRoW Home. Thank you all who came down, we hope you had a great time!
Find out more about the GRoW Home at:
Official Website: grow.buffalo.edu/
Twitter: twitter.com/grow2015
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCocv2tGStBAzR3rBkDMDKbw
Instagram: instagram.com/growbuffalo/
Photos by Zhi Ting Phua
At the Lancaster County Super Fair, 4-H Home Environment exhibits include several projects, including Design My Place, Sketchbook Crossroads, Portfolio Pathways, Design Decisions, Human Development and Heritage.
In Nebraska, the 4-H youth development program for ages 5-18 is part of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. Learn more about Lancaster County 4-H at lancaster.unl.edu/4h.
Børre Sæthre
Unicorn/My Private Sky, 2001
Børre Sæthre (born 1967 in Oslo, Norway) is known for his large scale, highly theatrical installations. Incorporating elements such as stuffed animals, furniture, stage lighting, sound and video, he creates surreal environments that are once seductive and disturbing. With their precision and meticulous attention to detail, these environments are conceived as immersive spaces into which the visitor becomes a participant. Sæthre often draws inspiration from film, especially from the filmmakers David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky and Alfred Hitchcock. Many of the stories that unfold in his work have a concrete starting point, but rather than present solutions, they tend to confront the viewer with questions. A work that attracted considerable attention when shown at Astrup Fearnley Museet in 2001, Unicorn/My Private Sky is now part of the museum’s collection.
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The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art is a privately owned contemporary art gallery in Oslo in Norway. It was founded and opened to the public in 1993.[1] The collection's main focus is the American appropriation artists from the 1980s, but it is currently developing towards the international contemporary art scene, with artists like Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Tom Sachs, Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson, and Cai Guo-Qiang. The museum gives 6-7 temporary exhibitions each year. Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art collaborates with international institutions and produces exhibitions that travel worldwide.[2] In 2012 the museum moved to two new buildings designed by Renzo Piano in Tjuvholmen.
The museum opened in 1993, and was funded by two philanthropic foundations established by descendants of the Fearnley shipping family, the Thomas Fearnley Foundation and the Heddy and Nils Astrup Foundation.
The two foundations merged in 1995 to become the Thomas Fearnley, Heddy and Nils Astrup Foundation. The Thomas Fearnley Foundation was established by shipping magnate Thomas Fearnley (1880–1961) in 1939; he was the son of shipping magnate Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927) and grandson of romantic painter Thomas Fearnley. The Heddy and Nils Astrup Foundation was named for Nils Ebbessøn Astrup, who was a maternal grandson of Thomas Fearnley (1841–1927).
The museum created a stir in the international art world in 2002 when it purchased the American artist Jeff Koons's monumental sculpture in gilt porcelain of the pop star Michael Jackson with Bubbles, his favourite chimpanzee, for US $5.1 million.
The permanent collection consists of works of Norwegian and International Contemporary Art. The museum collection was originally based on a private collection that goes back thirty years and has significantly developed with the many changes in modern/contemporary art. There has been an interest in German Abstract Expressionism, English modern painting, and the Young British Artists. Presently the collection is orientated towards the young American art scene. It also encompasses works pertaining to the steadily increasing global art community. The main areas of curatorial expertise in the museum are art from the 1960s to the present, including American and European pop-art, post-modern appropriation art of the 1980s and international contemporary art.
Astrup Fearnley Museet is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in 2023. To mark this significant milestone the museum presents an extensive exhibition featuring iconic works, hidden treasures and recent acquisitions to the Astrup Fearnley Collection, across the museums two buildings. The selected works represent various time periods and highlight a number of key directions that have come to define the identity of the collection and the museum more broadly. The collection includes significant works by Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Félix González-Torres, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Bjarne Melgaard, Julie Mehretu and Cindy Sherman.
The museum building is designed by renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, whose other notable museum buildings include Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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"The collection does not concentrate on specific eras, styles or groups, but reflects an in-depth attention to the work of a wide variety of artists. The museum maintains the vibrancy of the collection by regularly rehanging the exhibitions, placing the works in new constellations and contexts. The presentation on show focuses on a range of practices, often including several works by individual artists, in order to highlight the breadth and depth of the collection. Well-known artworks are juxtaposed with newly purchased pieces that have never been exhibited before. Not selected according to an overall theme, the different works generate a dialogue through their interplay with one other. This exhibition presents a multitude of topics and concepts that may inspire new directions of exploration. The artworks encourage us to examine complex issues and meditate on questions of aesthetics and politics, of identity, sexuality and violence, and of loss, faith and belonging."
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Our earlier visit to Oslo in September, 2022:
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Aker Brygge and Tjuvholmen
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A bridge connects Aker Brygge to Tjuvholmen ('the thief islet'). Tjuvholmen is not only one of Oslo’s newest quarters, it is also a must-see for all design and architecture aficionados. The area is known for its rich, architectural diversity and the many art installations in between the houses. There are also a lot of galleries on Tjuvholmen, as well as the AstrupFearnley Museum, which situated at the outermost tip of the island, between its sculpture park and a small beach.
The annual Chesapeake Executive Council meeting is held at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md., on Dec. 10, 2024. Gov. Wes Moore was re-elected to a one-year term as chair of the council during the meeting, which was also attended by Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, remotely by Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, and representatives from West Virginia, Delaware, New York, the District of Columbia, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Chesapeake Bay Commission. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Sunday, 15 August 2010
The Great Suburban Walk
There’s a federal election on its way, yet our political leaders continue to backflip, delay and deny on climate change. With so much at stake, it’s time for the community to put climate action back on the election agenda.
The 2010 Walk Against Warming demand that our political leaders face up to their responsibility on climate change. We’ll remind them that to secure our votes, they must ‘Walk with the People, Not the Big Polluters’.
This year we took our message for a safe climate straight to the people that matter most – the voters.
We coordinated hundreds of Victorians in three key electorates (Melbourne, Deakin and La Trobe) to come together and letterbox. To make sure that voters in those areas know exactly what actions our leaders need to take on climate change.
So that means that less than one week before the federal election, up to 300,000 of the most influential voters in Victoria will receive our safe climate message. How good!
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Rain gardens line a street in Rock Creek Park on Oregon Avenue in Northwest Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2024. The rain gardens form a buffer between Oregon Avenue and the sidewalk leading to Knollwood Life Plan Community. (Photo by Rhiannon Johnston/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Images from the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2) in Geneva, Switzerland.
CREDIT: © Florian Fussstetter/ UNEP
Background information:
In March 2022, at the resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), a historic resolution was adopted to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.
The resolution (5/14) requested the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to convene an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop "the instrument," which is to be based on a comprehensive approach that addresses the full life cycle of plastic, including its production, design and disposal.
The INC began its work during the second half of 2022. The first session of the INC (INC-1) took place in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from 28 November to 2 December 2022, followed by a second session (INC-2) from 29 May to 2 June 2023 in Paris, France. The third session (INC-3) marked the process' midway point from 13 to 19 November 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya, followed by the fourth session (INC-4) from 23 to 29 April 2024 in Ottawa, Canada. The first part of the fifth session (INC-5.1) took place from 25 November to 1 December 2024 in Busan, Republic of Korea, and the second part of the fifth session (INC-5.2) will take place from 5 to 14 August 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland.
These Youth brought together a collaborative discussion on how youth can take impactful action to bring about positive change for the environment.
Read more about the project on our Tumblr:
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Volunteers from all walks of life are participating in Al-Hassakeh campaign "Let's change it" which aims to raise awareness about the importance of keeping a clean environment and removing accumulated garbage from the streets.
ENVIRONMENT-ICELAND: Living With Volcanic Eruptions.
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REYKJAVIK, Apr 20, 2010 (IPS) - Incredible as it may seem, daily life for the vast majority of Icelanders is completely unaffected by the volcanic eruption under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier, that has left thousands of air passengers around the world stranded due to flight cancellations..
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Evan shows off the by-product of hard work, a snapped in half bucket, that can now be used to move rice husks into the mud to create a stronger brick.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT NETWORKING - HELD THE FIRST LONDON EVENT AT THE CENTRAL HALL IN WESTMINSTER.©RUSSELL SACH - 0771 882 6138
Images from the opening of the Global Environment Outlook 7 meeting being held at conference room 2 of the UNON campus.
© Ahmed Nayim Yussuf/ UNEP
Background info: Following a very successful UN Environment Assembly, the resolution on the future of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) was approved by Member States on 2 March, 2022. The seventh edition of GEO (GEO-7) preparations began with the inaugural meetings of GEO-7, which are the ad hoc open-ended meeting of the Assessment Procedures and Supporting Functions of the GEO meeting and the second ad hoc open-ended meeting of GEO-7. This procedures meeting was held on 19-22 September 2022. Experts nominated by Member States and UNEP-accredited stakeholders attended the ad hoc open-ended meetings of the seventh Global Environment Outlook. The second ad hoc open-ended meeting of the seventh Global Environment Outlook was held on 17-20 October 2022 in a hybrid format. This meeting reviewed and adopted the draft scoping document of GEO-7. The meeting also convened expert dialogues on food, energy and waste systems identified in GEO-6 as requiring transformation. The outcomes of these two meetings were presented at a side event titled "Progress and Outcomes of Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) Inaugural Meetings," hosted by the 9th Annual Subcommittee Meeting of UNEP's Committee of Permanent Representatives.
GEO-7 will also continue to assess the state and trends of the global environment, the implications for human well-being, and the achievement of the SDGs, as well as provide an outlook that provides useful guidance on the possible environmental and socio-economic consequences of the transformational changes needed. This will ensure continuity with previous GEOs and allow GEO-7 to provide some updates on the environmental impact of the global pandemic and recent disasters and conflicts. For the outlook, GEO-7 may be able to provide modelling and scenario analysis of the socio-economic effects (both positive and negative) of different solution pathways. This analysis will provide additional rationale for Member States to implement the proposed solutions pathways.