For its upcoming public art series entitled 40�, 73�: Works at the Intersection of Art and Ecology, The Canary Project seeks 3 artists to create site-specific works in Brooklyn (40�N, 73�W), that engage the public in experiencing global ecology on a local level. The work should resonate with specific places throughout Brooklyn and the daily lives of the people that live there. The projects will be implemented during a one- to three-week period in late September to early October 2008 and will culminate in a presentation at the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn. Following the artists� presentations, a panel consisting of community leaders, arts practitioners, and local ecologists will respond to the work.� The 3 artists selected by the jury will receive a $800 stipend and staff support from The Canary Project to assist in the realization of their project. Read More.

In conjunction with next year’s UN Climate Conference to be held in Copenhagen, an initiative called Co2penhagen will host a carbon neutral festival, supposedly the first of its kind.
The festival will be comprised of events ranging from concerts, installations and exhibitions and the idea is not just to let festival goers have fun with a clear conscience but, more importantly, to use the festival as an experiential showcase of local know-how, imagination and innovation within the field of sustainable energy.
Danish based companies, organisations, inventors and researchers are thus invited to support the festival through active participation.
One of the plans already in mind, is to employ the energy created by competing teams of bike riders to power up the festival’s sound and lighting system. The team generating the most power will win.

The Solar Powered Tutus that Benoit Maubrey, director of the Solar Ballerinas project, has been recently developing is one of the most beautiful and clever examples of how to merge both  aesthetic, and ecological approach to electronic art. The Solar Ballerinas, is a group of dancers that wear solar-powered electronic dresses that create sounds by reacting to their environment. In the Maubrey’s website you will also able to find other fabulous art project proposal. In other words, a “MUST SEE” experience!

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) is currently showing an exhibit on the Miss Rockaway Armada — a junk-raft fleet of eco-art-maniacs who floadted up and down the Mississippi being awesomely weird.
The Miss Rockaway Armada is a collective of artists, musicians, and adventurers-of-all-stripes who spent the summers of 2006 and 2007 journeying down the Mississippi River on a fleet of “junk-rafts.” Hailing from all parts of the country and all walks of life, the Miss Rockaway Armada is united by the desire to create; to demonstrate different ways of living and moving that are friendlier to the environment and to each other; to indulge the urge to make something out of nothing. With this spirit and energy, The Miss Rockaway Armada comes to MASS MoCA for their first project in collaboration with a museum. Being Here is Better Than Wishing We’d Stayed, a site-specific, interactive installation in the Hunter Center Mezzanine, will open to the public on Saturday, April 19, 2008, and will remain on view through March 1, 2009. In addition to the exhibition on Saturday, April 12, 2008, at 2 PM the Miss Rockaway Armada will give a performance in the vein of the impromptu circus/theater performances they staged in towns along the Mississippi.

Apple just filed a patent to infuse their hand-helds and computers with a thin film of solar cells, paving the way for a new generation of gadgets with battery life boosted by the sun. The patent approaches the prospect from every angle, with schematics to stack photovoltaic cells beneath the entire surface of their portables - including the screen!
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The umbrella pot made of ceramic has a small plant pot at the bottom to use the rain water.
This umbrella allows rainwater from your umbrella to drain into the plant pot. Low-maintenance way to keep a small plant. The umbrella pot by KYOUEI DESIGN offers a beautiful solution to the soggy umbrella dilemma, and allows you to turn that excess, unwanted rain water into nourishment for a plant!

LessWatts.org is an organization dealing with matters as power consumption in computers. LessWatts.org is about how you can save real watts, however you use Linux* on your computer or computers and is creating a community around saving power on Linux, bringing developers, users, and sysadmins together to share software, optimizations, and tips and tricks.
You can get tips, software, and tuning from this site and its forums, but we also want your input and involvement! Share your best tricks, test the software under development, contribute code, report bugs or issues, or simply help out other people who have questions.

A Torino venerdì 23 e sabato 24 maggio 2008 si celebra un evento strutturato in molteplici azioni dedicate alla connessione - relazione tra musica elettronica, elettroacustica, il suono e il rispetto dell’ambiente, la natura, l’ecologia, il risparmio energetico. EVA focalizza l’attenzione su artisti di fama internazionale e nazionale, nuovi talenti e progetti speciali la cui creatività trova fondamento in percorsi strettamente personali e privati, lontani da definizioni obsolete di generi musicali e da cliché artistici. Gli artisti invitati alla rassegna affrontano attraverso la loro arte musicale e visuale l’idea di grottesco, fragile, paradossale, casuale, ermetico. Tutti termini che hanno invaso brutalmente negli ultimi anni la nostra quotidianità.

In February 2004 the EAF presented Art of the Biotech Era – an exhibition, symposium & workshop. Since 2004 the EAF has expanded the Art of the Biotech Era project through various undertakings such as Eduardo Kac’s Biotech Art workshop in 2005 involving leading national and international artists and theorists presenting works exploring biotechnology and genomics and discussing the influence of this techno-scientific change of society, the ethical implications of genetic engineering and the concept of aesthetics in biotech arts. As a part of the project, the EAF has commissioned texts from over 20 national and international writers, published here together with images from artists working in the field. Art in the Biotech Era is a comprehensive compilation of theories and practices surrounding issues of art and biotechnology. Published by the Experimental Art Foundation. February, 2008ISBN 0-949836-52-4210mm x 210mm234 pp/36pp colour images.

Grass-On Lamp è un lavoro di ITlab, tre architetti veneziani per la precisione, ed è un progetto che guarda al “verde”. La lampada è infatti realizzata utilizzando diversi materiali riciclati, compresa erba sintetica. Creata in occasione di un concorso per un’ associazione di beneficienza, resta un prodotto unico ed ecologico per arredare gli interni, grazie anche alla suo versatilità e la forma a cubo, può essere usata in modi diversi: per terra, su un tavolo o sospesa in aria.