In 2007, fashion designer Beth Doane and graphic designer Bethany Armstrong merged their interests in human rights, biodiversity, and sustainable economic development to create the Rain Tee Collection for Andira, Doane’s fashion-import company. Andira donates art supplies to schools in Central and South America and invites children to create works reflecting their own experiences with deforestation and individual perceptions of the environment. The signed illustrations become the basis for tee shirts, dresses, and tops, with profits funding the outreach program to schools as well as other local nonprofit groups and providing support for a project in which children in Costa Rica plant a tree for each item sold. The clothing itself is made from a blend of bamboo ...
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ice cream lottery
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digital sweat
I recently watched Stephanie Rothenberg speak about her project doublehappinessjeans, a Second Life sweatshop that produces designer denim by the underpaid labor of virtual avatars; producing the ...
The Zone
The vision of the nonprofit group Zones of Peace International Foundation (ZOPIF) merges conflict-resolution, community-building, and preservation of cultural and historic sites. ZOPIF grew from a recognition of the ...
black tin 2
Tin Mining In Bangka Island - Click here for this week’s top video clips
I’ve talked about the devastation that illegal tin mining has wrought on ...
monolithic shoes
Site-Specific Art
A collaborative effort of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Rare, and the University of California, Human/Nature pairs environmental artists ...
Indigenous Knowledge
Working in conjunction with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative, the educational and cultural resources collective the Alaskan Native Knowledge Network (ANKN) helps the ...
The Art and Science of Land
Inspired in part by the work or activist and geographer Trevor Paglen, the art and curatorial collective Independent Curators International (iCI) invited visual artists, writers, installation artists, and geographers ...
In Transition
The Transition Towns WIKI provides an intellectual commons where communities can explore and share plans for responding to energy availability (particularly oil) and climate change. The site allows localities ...
Conservation RAVE
The International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) uses images to coordinate environmental education, cultural preservation, and political and social activism. To these ends, the group works to support a ...
phone guide
I’m not generally a fan of audio guides, especially when they cost money. They are free at the MoMA, on the other hand, but they won’t let you take them ...