Tag Archives: conservation

Graphic Designers Warn About Endangered Species

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Katherine

Can art help save endangered species? Last month, Italian e-zine Designboom held an international competition asking designers to come up with a graphic message about species extinction.

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‘A Cool Dip’ Flooded With Ideas

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Shelley DuBois

William Jackson Harper and Myra Lucretia Taylor in A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick. If you were to rank the oldest, most powerful motifs in storytelling, God and water would be right up there with love and death. … Continue reading →

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CITES Species Slideshow

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Shelley DuBois

The 2010 meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ended this week. Here’s a look at some of the species that international delegates at the meeting did or didn’t agree to protect.

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Amphibious Architecture- The Life of the Urban Aquatic

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Laura Pelcher

Rivers are frequently used as natural boundaries for cities, states, countries, etc. So it’s natural in a city like New York, shaped by the Hudson and the East River, to think of it’s borders at the waterfront. The rivers are … Continue reading →

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Ken Burns’ National Parks: from Scenery to Science

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Karen A. Frenkel

Part One Ken Burns’ new series, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea premiered on Public Television stations nationwide during the last week of September. By the end of the first episode, I immediately recognized that this opus differed from past … Continue reading →

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Things That Crawl In the Night

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Laura Pelcher

In a tribute to David Bowie and his album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), a newly discovered spider, decidedly from Earth, has been named Heteropoda davidbowie. The spider, as reported in The … Continue reading →

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