“ in early 2008, data from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research showed a big increase in deforestation had occurred in the last five months of 2007, with about 7,000 sq km (2,702 sq miles) of rainforest destroyed. The three Brazilian states with the highest rate of deforestation were Mato Grosso, Para and Rondonia.
What sort of the place is the Amazon region?
More than 30 million people - two-thirds of them Brazilian - live in the Amazon region, a vast area which represents 40% of South America and includes parts of nine countries.
Eleanor Roosevelt started a victory garden on the White House lawn in 1943, which encouraged millions to do the same in their own front yards. When WWII ended, home gardeners were producing 40 percent of the United States’ produce. Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardens International (an organization that promotes kitchen gardening and home-cooking) hopes to convince the next US president to make a small vegetable garden on the 19 acres of grass surrounding the White House. (via Campaign to grow vegetable garden on White House lawn - Boing Boing )
The environmental group Greenpeace said it was the first time Brazil had accepted a link between global warming and preserving the rainforest (via BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil launches rainforest fund)
“ Officials will seek donations abroad and aim to raise $21bn (£11bn) by 2021.
Pamela Anderson now joins Brad Pitt who is designing a new eco-friendly five-star hotel in Dubai. The actor’s Graft architecture company has teamed with local developer Zabeel Properties for the new project. The high end resort will have 800 rooms, and Pitt promises it will be socially conscious and environmentally sustainable. (via Modern Eco Blog
)
4 Panel Weeping Willow” (2006), for example, included 50 pens suspended from the branches of a Weeping Willow tree over four panels placed horizontally beneath the tree. The drawing is accompanied by a looped video of its production. (via Inhabitat » TREE DRAWINGS! Tim Knowles Arbor Interpretations
)
Tree Drawings Unique Per Tree
Tree Drawings are produced using simple drawing tools attached as freehand extensions to the tips of tree branches. In collaboration with the wind and local weather conditions, calligraphic gestures and automatic drawing readings are recorded on paper. The amazing thing about Knowles’ Tree Drawings is the unmistakable signatures that each drawing reveals as an indication of the unique characteristics and even genus/species of a specific tree.
“ But the notion of ‘nature as artist’, or rather as an eco-agent of sorts in automatic drawing, is definitely a new take on environmental interpretation. British artist Tim Knowles has set the stage
Tree Drawings are pure magic using only the purest art ingredients. Move over abstract expressionists, post-modern arborism is casting a deep, all-knowing shadow on you. (via Inhabitat » TREE DRAWINGS! Tim Knowles Arbor Interpretations
)
