Let's Talk About The Weather

Regan Rosburg is an artist and naturalist. Recently, her work has been an investigation into society's collective grief, melancholia and mania which manifests as consumption and distraction. She has conducted biology-based research trips to the Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Thailand, The Pacific Northwest Coast, and the Smokey Mountains of Northeast Tennessee.

Rosburg works in a variety of materials. Her resin work contains precious artifacts: plant and animal relics, bones, insects, lace and painted imagery. These objects are suspended in incredibly laborious, three dimensional resin "paintings." The use of resin poignantly addresses her growing concern over plastic pollution in the environment, while presenting the beauty of plant and animal species.

Regan curated Axis Mundi - an exhibition of 21 artists from all over the USA and Canada that responded to the topics of Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia.

Links mentioned

• Ecopsychology
• The three terms expressed on Axis Mundi: Artists on Ecopsychology
• • Freud's “Mourning, Melancholia, and Mania” PDF
  • Renee Lurtzman on Environmental Melancholia
  • E. O. Wilson and Biophilia / Forest Bathing in Japan
• The 2017 Biennial of Americas in Denver, CO
• Chris Jordan's film "Albatross"
• The 21 artists and their work can be found at AXIS MUNDI Artists on EcoPsychology: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania, and Biophilia
• Regan's "The Relentless Memorial"
• Axis Mundi Brings The Work of Twenty-one Artists from the USA and Canada
• Jennifer Jenal showing of Albatros
• Summer 2018 showings at the William Havu Gallery in Denver

Guest Contact information

• ReganRosburg.com
• Regan Rosburg on InstaGram #reganrosburg
• Regan Rosburg on Tumblr
• Regan Rosburg on Vimeo

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ZACKERY RAGO is the Youth Outreach Manager for Exposure Labs' Chasing Coral Impact Campaign and is thrilled to engage youth around the globe through science, art, and passion.

Zack’s passion for coral reefs began in the Hawaiian Islands where he spent his childhood summers under the waves of the Pacific. His infatuation with coral led to a position in the marine aquarium industry for 4 years before bringing his passion to Teens4Oceans and View Into The Blue. He received a degree in Evolutionary Biology & Ecology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a talented reef aquarist and long-time scuba diver, he is dedicated to communicating the story of coral through science and art.

Links Mentioned

• https://www.chasingcoral.com/
• http://www.exposurelabs.com/
• https://teens4oceans.org/
• https://www.viewintotheblue.com/

Contact Zack

• Zack Rago
• Zack on Twitter @coral_buff
• Zack on Instagram @coral_buff
• Zack and Resources on www.ChasingCoral.com

Contact us and let’s talk (about the weather)

• Ashley Mazanec at EcoArtsFoundation.org
• Britta Nancarrow on Instagram
• Britta Nancarrow at the Climate Reality Project
• EcoArtsFoundation.org
• Let’s Talk About The Weather podcast page
• Email the show

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Beverly Naidus is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. While developing an innovative studio arts curriculum, she has been creating interactive installations, digital projects, artist books and narrative and conceptual drawings for over three decades. Much of her work is audience-participatory, inviting people to tell their own stories in response to the theme being explored. Inspired by the lived experience, topics in her art focus on environmental and social issues, including how we are individually and collectively affected by racism, climate change and multiple forms of systemic oppression.

Her unique courses at UWT emerge from her own projects and include Art in a Time of War, Cultural Identity and Art, Body Image and Art, Eco-art, Labor, Globalization and Art and the Artist as Visionary and Dreamer. She is the author of Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, numerous essays on socially engaged art and pedagogy and some recent pieces of speculative fiction. She has taught at several NYC museums, Carleton College, Cal State Long Beach, Hampshire College, Goddard College and the Institute for Social Ecology. She has guest lectured and led workshops all over North America and in Europe.

She facilitated and designed the permaculture-inspired, eco-art project, Eden Reframed, on Vashon Island, WA, funded by the Royalty Research Foundation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, in mainstream museums, university galleries, alternative spaces, and city streets. It has been reviewed and discussed by many significant writers, including Lucy R. Lippard, Suzi Gablik, Paul Von Blum and Lisa Bloom.

As part of her new collective, ARTifACTs, she is collaborating on an interactive, multidisciplinary project about the future. “We Almost Didn’t Make It,” imagines the artifacts (and stories that emerge from them) found by our descendants that give them insights into the risks taken by activists (their ancestors) that allowed the descendants to exist. It’s an audience participatory and multi-media work that gives participants the opportunity to imagine the artifacts that their descendants might find.

Topics & Links Covered in this Episode

• Joanna Macy - Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
• Beverly Naidus- Eden Reframed
• Beverly Naidus - Soil Remediation
• Pesticides originally developed as bio warfare during World War II
• Beverly Naidus on Panic and Despair about Climate Change - We Almost Didn’t Make It
• UW Tacoma YouTube - We Almost Didn't Make It - Beverly Naidus
• Pete Seeger “Lots of teaspoons can fill a pail” (The teaspoon brigade)
• Children & Nature Network - Nature Deficit Disorder
• No More "Nature-Deficit Disorder" - The "No Child Left Inside" movement
• Beverly Naidus Book: One Size Does Not Fit All
• Beverly Naidus Book: Art in a Time of War
• Book: Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame
• Non violent communication
• Beverly Naidus - Labor Globalization and Arts class
• Beverly Naidus - So you want to be an eco-artist? Lessons in Grief and Gratitude
• Beverly Naidus - Portable Altars for Grief and Gratitude
• Beverly sits on the Puyallup Nation Land

Contact Beverly Naidus

• BeverlyNaidus.net
• On Facebook: Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame
• Download: Naidus-Art CV 2018
• Eco-art Project’s Blog: Eden Reframed: Eco-art Meets Permaculture Design on Vashon Island
• Beverly Naidus: Academia, University of Washington Tacoma, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Faculty Member
• Beverly Naidus: Wikipedia

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Beginning in April 2016, environmental visual arts activist Noam Bedein began documenting the treasures of the Dead Sea, gathering evidence of new dramatic geological phenomena and measuring the constant and rapid receding water level.

Scientists are warning that if something is not done immediately, all that will remain of the Dead Sea will be a small pool of salt water.

His mission is to share the incredible beauty of this World Heritage Site using many forms of visual arts; such as a photo exhibition display and virtual reality demonstration, all for sounding the alarm of its imminent disappearance. Since founding Dead Sea Revival Project he has been recognized by National Geographic and CNN/VR.

Links mentioned

• Dead Sea rapid receding water level
• Dead Sea Revival Project
• Noam Bedein on Instagram
• National Geographic and CNN/VR.

Follow #RestoreHistoricalFlow

Guest Contact Info

Noam Bedein

• Dead Sea Revival Project
• Noam Bedein on Instagram
• [email protected]

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Aaron M. Ellison is the Senior Research Fellow in Ecology in Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Senior Ecologist & Deputy Director at the Harvard Forest, and a semi-professional photographer and writer. He studies the disintegration and reassembly of ecosystems following natural and anthropogenic disturbances; thinks about the relationship between the Dao and the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis; reflects on the critical and reactionary stance of Ecology relative to Modernism, blogs as The Unbalanced Ecologist, and tweets as @AMaxEll17. He is the author of A Primer of Ecological Statistics (2004/2012), A Field Guide to the Ants of New England (2012; recipient of the 2013 USA Book News International Book Award in General Science, and the 2013 award for Specialty Title in Science and Nature from The New England Society in New York City), Stepping in the Same River Twice: Replication in Biological Research (2017), Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution (2018), and Vanishing Point (2017), a collection of photographs and poetry from the Pacific Northwest. On Wednesdays, he works wood.

David Buckley Borden is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based interdisciplinary artist and designer. Using an accessible combination of art and design, David promotes a shared environmental awareness and heightened cultural value of ecology. David's projects highlight both pressing environmental issues and everyday phenomena. Driven by research and community outreach, his work manifests in a variety of forms, ranging from site-specific landscape installations in the woods to data-driven cartography in the gallery.

David's place-based projects have recently earned him residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Teton Artlab, Trifecta Hibernaculum, and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. David was a 2016/2017 Charles Bullard Fellow in Forest Research at Harvard University and continues to work with researchers as a Harvard Forest Associate Fellow to answer the question, “How can art and design foster cultural cohesion around environmental issues and help inform ecology-minded decision making?” David studied landscape architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and worked at Sasaki Associates and Ground before focusing his independent practice at the intersection of landscape, creativity, and cultural event.

Links mentioned

The Suffocating Embrace of Landscape and the Picturesque Conditioning of Ecology

Guest Contact Info

Aaron Ellison

• Aaron’s Wikipedia page
• Aaron’s Amazon Author page
• Aaron at Harvard Forest (Harvard University's 4000 acre laboratory & classroom Long Term Ecological Research site since 1988)
• Aaron The Unbalanced Ecologist
• Aaron on Twitter @AMaxEll17
• Email Aaron Ellison

David Buckley Borden

• David at DavidBuckleyBorden.com
• Associate Fellow (Designer-In-Residence) at Harvard Forest
• Hemlock Hospice Art/Science Installation & Exhibition by David Buckley Borden
• David at the Santa Fe Art Institute

Contact us and let’s talk (about the weather)

• Ashley Mazanec at EcoArtsFoundation.org
• Britta Nancarrow on Instagram
• Britta Nancarrow at the Climate Reality Project
• EcoArtsFoundation.org
• Let’s Talk About The Weather podcast page
• Email the show

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Mario Benassi is a producer, director and cinematographer dedicated to the preservation of biodiversity. National Geographic, PBS and Discovery Channel are just a few of the many organizations Benassi has worked with.

Acclaimed for filming in rugged and remote jungles, Benassi has put himself in extreme situations to capture intimate moments with truly amazing wildlife. He now resides in Haines, Alaska where he continues to document the wonders of nature exposing how pollution and other environmental issues affect the ecosystems.

As founder of Wildside Productions, an organization that uses media, presentations and live animal encounters to create environmental awareness, Benassi’s goal is to inspire the preservation of the Earth’s beauty.

Links mentioned

• Marty Stouffer's Wild America.
• Ginger Kathrens and The Cloud Foundation protecting and preserving America's wild horses and burros.
• Mario Benassi film Toxic Treasure (listed down the page) at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival.

Mario’s Contact Info

Mario Benassi
Producer / Director / Cinematographer
HC 60 Box 2844
Haines, AK 99827
Wildside Productions LTD
Mario Benassi films on Vimeo
Mario on Facebook
Mario Julian Benassi on Facebook

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Sent on April 25, 2018 by Anonymous.

“to the future generation,

Hello to whoever reads this letter in the future. Today is a beautiful sunny day without a single cloud in sight. The sun is warm with a slight breeze tingling down my face as I walk on the sidewalks. Over the next ten, twenty or even thirty years, these clear, sunny skies may not even exist. At the current rate of pollution and climate change that we are currently experiencing, cities may begin to fill up with smog and pollution. I fear the day that we may not ever see a sunny day in the future…”

Read the complete letter and Send Your Own Message Here.

Jill Kubit is the director and co-founder of DearTomorrow - a digital and archive project for people to personally connect with the issue of climate change, to commit to taking stronger action and to share these stories with friends, family and their social networks.

After spending a decade working with the U.S. labor movement on climate change, she has become fascinated with how to best engage the general public on this complex issue. Jill is deeply committed to building new ideas, projects and organizations to explore this question and brings many organizational development skills to her work, including: fundraising, building partnerships, developing strategy, teaching, writing, organizing events, and managing projects. She has a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. from Northwestern.

Her TED Talk discusses the founding of DearTomorrow - a project she started with Trisha Shrum when her son Gabriel was 18 months old - which she has been working to build ever since.

Guest Contact Info

Jill Kubit

Website: www.deartomorrow.org

Send Your Own Message Here

Also

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-kubit-65a10396/
  
• #DearTomorrow
  
• Facebook: DearTomorrowhttps://www.facebook.com/DearTomorrow/
  
• Instagram: DearTomorrow https://www.instagram.com/deartomorrow/
  
• Twitter: @deartmrw https://twitter.com/DearTmrw
  
• TED talk: Climate change is personal | Jill Kubit

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Daniel Hudon, originally from Canada, is an adjunct lecturer in math, astronomy and physics. He is the author of two books of nonfiction: a humorous intro to the universe, called The Bluffer’s Guide to the Cosmos and a lyrical prose compendium designed to raise awareness about the biodiversity crisis, called Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader. He likes to go hiking and kayaking and to dance Argentine tango.

He can be found online at DanielHudon.com, @daniel_hudon, and in Boston, MA.

A quote read by Ashley from Tagore blazed onto a sign in a hillside stand of deodars in Simla, India:

Be still, my heart, these great trees are prayers, and as I watch them swell above me I see the symmetry of hands pressed together tapering skyward and try to remember when I last loved a tree so much I wanted to get lost in its forest, or even its shadow.

Once in a Toronto park I saw a maple sing out as if it was the last tree on Earth; never had I seen such red for in Alberta, where I grew up, fall was brief and yellow, without maples. I remember telling my parents about it on the phone. On my block in Boston, every autumn a maple turns red in a slow burn from the top down over several weeks, as if refusing to let its fire out too quickly. But last fall it turned early, dropped its leaves before the end of August and now bark is peeling away from the trunk. All winter I wondered if it would bud in the spring and now I know. I fear it will be removed and don’t know what I will do then.

Last year scientists said our planet had three trillion trees, enough to give each person four hundred and twenty two, a small forest and really, I’d like to know where mine are because I want to climb one of them, or perhaps build a treehouse, string a hammock between a pair, or walk among them as if they are elders of the Earth, praying for all of us.

Guest Contact Info

Daniel Hudon, Ph.D.
Twitter: @daniel_hudon
Web: DanielHudon.com

See my new book: Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader, available at http://penandanvil.com/brief-eulogies/

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Designer and environmental artist Doron Gazit‘s use of the natural elements - in particular wind - has provoked and fascinated onlookers from the Fly Guy of the Olympics to visual feasts across castles and deserts.

Since 2014, he has sounded a creative alarm of sorts through his Red Line Project, a series of red balloon tunnels highlighting humans’ misuse of the environment. Gazit’s temporary installations can be found documented across the globe from the Dead Sea sinkholes to Alaskan glaciers.

Topics and Links mentioned

• VIDEO: Keeping the Dead Sea alive: Artist Doron Gazit creates eye-popping installations in Israel, i24news
• 1984 Olympic games and the “Fly Guy”
• Doron’s development of “vertical winds”
• Doron’s Burning Man installations
• The Redline Metaphor and the Projects
• Valerie Kosheleff MSc, and the Save a Horney Friend Foundation
• VIDEO: The Red Line Project at the Dead Sea Sinkholes - Doron Gazit
• Glacier Melts
• Doron’s Mission
• Doron Gazit’s Art Materials
• National Geographic - We Made Plastic. We depend on it. Now we're Drowning in it
• National Geographic - Planet or Plastic?
• Pesticides and Algae Blooms
• VIDEO: Sculpting the Winds of Change | Doron Gazit | TEDxVail
• BOOK: Doron Gazit: Art * Design * Spirit
• Inspirational: Christo and Jeanne-Claude
• Inspirational: Andy Goldsworthy
• Inspirational: John Quigley
• The Instructables Wind Tube

Doron’s closing words: “Don’t be passive.” Think how to change, improve. Be active. Break the frame!”

Guest Contact Info

Doron Gazit
DoronGazit.com
Doron on Instagram

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Miss Violette is a budding duo that marries the unique style of singer/songwriter and activist Violette Larsen with the musical direction and insight of acclaimed producer and writer Angus Wilson. On and off stage they commit their lives to the musical embodiment of love and truth through lyrics and melody, on a mission together to bring heart centered, impact driven music back to the mainstream.

Their first EP Black Snake, inspired by the Dakota Access oil pipeline, will be released July 16, 2018, alongside a music video to accompany its namesake single.

Guest Contact Info

Miss Violette
@GrooveOnViolette on InstaGram
Miss Violette on Facebook
MissViolette.com

Angus Wilson
muSIChouse.earth
muSIC house on Facebook

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