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This code provides tools for filmmakers to measure whether their practices are as sustainable as they can be throughout the production process. Accompanying online checklists, trackers, and Web resources provide a summary of current approaches that implement that rationale.
Read the Code and download the tools at Sustainablefilmaking.org.
The Australian "Good Environmental Choice" program launched in November 2001 provides to the community an environmental mark of recognition for a wide range of products and services. The benefits of an independent environmental label is that all Australians can easily recognise products which are sensitive to environmental pressures.
Learn more about the program or check the green credentials of a product at the Geca website.
Designed to be simple and easy to use, the GreenGallery Guide, developed by the Australian Conservation Association and the Australian Commercial Galleries Association, assists gallery owners and managers to identify simple changes to make in galleries that will save energy and water, reduce waste, and help artists and clients to live more sustainable and healthy lives. The Guide contains ten top tips for greening a gallery, including such simple measures as remembering to turn off computers and appliances and installing low-energy lighting.
Learn more and download the free guide here
The IDC Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Calculator provides a simple way to assess the environmental impact of a product by calculating its energy input and carbon output from cradle to grave.
The LCA Calculator is a free, easy-to-use tool to estimate the carbon footprint and embodied energy of any product.
Developing a language around sustainability issues and communicating those ideas to a larger audience is a collaborative process between those working in the sector and those reporting the issues. By understanding each other's tools, that process becomes more transparent, efficient and effective.
Media as Partners in Education for Sustainable Development: A Training and Resource Kit is a recently published training kit that attempts to provide media professionals with basic information about some priority issues for sustainable development. It also provides practical exercises to inspire investigative reporting, and draws links to existing experience that may enrich the information resources of media professionals.
Media as Partners is edited by Venus Easwaran Jennings and Eleanor Bird. Paris: UNESCO, 2008. Download the full document here.
REPSA represents the manufacturers, distributors, raw material suppliers and recyclers of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) products.
Drop used batteries off at collection receptacles, which are placed in SonyCentral stores and Sony Offices around the country. For more information on what else can be dropped off, read the media release here or contact you local Sony store.
AJE is the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture – Australia and New Zealand. ASLEC–ANZ members seek to promote the creation, appreciation, understanding, and teaching of the human sciences from ecological perspectives.
Full access to the Journal is available at the National Library of Australia website
William McDonough's book, written with his colleague, the German chemist Michael Braungart, is a manifesto calling for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design. Through historical sketches on the roots of the industrial revolution; commentary on science, nature and society; descriptions of key design principles; and compelling examples of innovative products and business strategies already reshaping the marketplace, McDonough and Braungart make the case that an industrial system that "takes, makes and wastes" can become a creator of goods and services that generate ecological, social and economic value.
For a full description and stockist details head to McDonough's website.
Numerous tendencies in landscape architecture, science and theory have driven research and landscape transformation for over thirty years. Approaches as different as Ecological Aesthetics, Art in Nature, Ecoart and Reclamation Art are united by a search for dialogue with natural processes. This book describes the diverse aspects of ecological aesthetics from the point of view of artists, landscape architects, scientists, philosophers and politicians. Authored by Heike Strewlow, Herman Prigann and Vera David.
Learn more about Hildegard Kurt a cultural researcher and feature writer in Ecological Aesthetics.
Coined in 1999, the term ecovention (ecology + invention) describes an artist-initiated project that employs an inventive strategy to physically transform a local ecology. This catalog seeks to flesh out each artist's philosophical perspectives and methodologies in their approach of creating ecoventions.
Read an online version or buy the printed copy at Amazon.
At the 3rd UCLG Congress held in Mexico in September 2010, the Executive Bureau saw the adoption of three policy papers on three different policy areas: culture, strategic planning and human rights in the city.
The Policy Statement on Culture established culture as the "fourth pillar of sustainable development". This policy statement was the result of a longstanding work led by the UCLG Committee on Culture, on the basis of the UNESCO's Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity (2001) and the Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005). It allowed developing a fourth dimension to the three already existing pillars: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental balance.
The book is available as a pdf for free download: Download the Fourth Pillar
After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Author of Relational Aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
Learn more about Relational Aesthetics and related works here.
Sweet Earth- Experimental Utopias in America by Joel Sternfeld looks at 60 representative historic or present American utopias. Neither a conventional history nor a conventional book of photography, Sweet Earth brings together what might otherwise seem disparate, individualized social phenomena and makes visible the community of communities.
For more information on where to find Sweet Earth, head to the artbook website.
What the World Needs Now is a Good Housekeeper, is a simple, step by step illustrated guide to restoring environmentally degraded sites as an ecological art practice. In ten clear steps, internationally renowned artist Aviva Rahmani describes her approach and techniques for working with scientists and engineers to address environmental degradation and global warming.
Learn more at Aviva's website
Australian research groups and networks
Carbon Arts
Carbon Arts generates and evaluates creative models for engaging society in imagining and shaping a more sustainable future. We work with forward-thinking governments, businesses, artists and designers to inject creative talent and thinking into decision-making and to reach broad audiences.
Climarte
CLIMARTE is an independent not for profit body that brings the arts community together to tackle climate change.
O2 Eco-Creatives Network
The O2 Eco-creatives network aims to raise the profile of Australian eco-design in Australia and throughout the world and to grow and nurture the eco-creative industry through sharing of knowledge and to gain recognition and awareness of the essential role of eco-design and designers.
Community Arts Network
The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information.
Symbiotica
Based in WA Australia, SymbioticA is the first research laboratory of its kind, enabling artists and researchers to engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department.
Tipping Point Australia
TippingPoint Australia facilitates creative conversations and interventions with the arts and cultural sector and others nationally and internationally that support an environmentally sustainable future. We promote and produce low carbon art projects nationally and internationally, charting the transition to a low carbon economy -The Climate Commissions
International research groups and opportunities
The Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is the nexus where art intersects science, architecture and activism- an incubator for thought and expermentation for artists and innovators who seek out and foster areas of collaboration to engage in the central issue of our time.
ASU Center for Science and the Imagination
In March, 2012 ASU hosted Emerge, an unparalleled campus-wide event uniting artists, engineers, scientists, storytellers and designers to build, draw, write and rethink the future of the human species and the environments that we share. The Center for Science and the Imagination will develop Emerge into an annual event that will engage changemakers from a variety of fields to respond to the question "what kind of future do we want to create?"
Ars Bioarctica
Ars Bioarctica is a long term art&science program by the Finnish
Society of Bioart together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. Since 2010 it is organizing an artist-in-residency program at the
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in
the sub-Arctic Lapland.
Cultura 21
The International network of Cultura21 aims to bring together organizations and individuals across the globe striving to advance social, economic and ecological justice. Cultura21 stands for Cultures of Sustainability, allowing human social systems to evolve in harmony with one another and with their environment.
Green Museum
Green museum is an online museum of environmental art, which emerged from seeing firsthand some of the challenges facing artists, community groups, nonprofit organizations and arts institutions when presenting and developing a dialogue around environmental art.
MIT's Art, Science & Technology
Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) is being established at MIT and will integrate the arts into the curriculum and research of institutions of higher learning.
Pixelache Helsinki
As part of Pixelache Helsinki Festival, Camp Pixelache 2012 is designed around one main unconference day on
Saturday 12.5, with an overarching theme of 'Do It With Others'. How can artists, makers, cultural producers, researchers and
activists work collaboratively with each other and audiences, to create
new co-production models for artefacts/events with sustainability as the
core goal
RSA Arts and Ecology Group
The Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts Arts and Ecology Centre is an organisation whose role is to catalyse, publicise, challenge and support artists who are responding to the unprecedented environmental challenges of our era. Using their inspirations, RSA Arts and Ecology aims to create a positive discussion about the causes and the human impact of climate change through commissioning, debate, interdisciplinary discourse and a high-profile website.
