Two Degrees 12: No Way Back Part Two
First Broadcast: 9 January 2007
Featuring:
- Stewart Wallis
- Max Andrews
NO WAY BACK? Part Two
The second of two programmes comprising our coverage of the RSA's "No Way
Back?" conference on arts and ecology.
Featured guests:
Stewart Wallis, executive director, New Economics Foundation
Max Andrews, editor, "Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook" (published by
RSA, distributed by Cornerhouse)
When Nicholas Stern describes climate change as the biggest market failure
ever, he is effectively admitting that our current economic system - which
does not place a value on environmental or social costs - has been
responsible for our failure to act sufficiently to combat climate change.
The New Economics Foundation has been arguing for over 20 years that our
economic thinking is outdated. The strength of their arguments has grown as
our present economic system reaches its limits and leads us towards
collapse. NEF's arguments are now unavoidable. Stewart Wallis explains why
we need to replace GDP with Well Being as the goal of our economic system if
we are to make the transition to a sustainable society.
A major new book was launched at the "No Way Back?" conference. "Land, Art:
A Cultural Ecology Handbook" traces the often hidden set of diverse artistic
practices that, from Land Art in the 1970s onwards, have explored themes
relating to the land and the environment. We spoke to the editor of this
beautifully designed, thought-provoking anthology, Max Andrews, about some
of the issues it raises.
New Economics Links
New Economics Foundation
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen
Land, Art Links:
“Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook”
http://www.thersa.org/arts/publications/publications.asp
Robert Smithson
http://www.robertsmithson.com/index_.htm
Rirkrit Tiravanija "the land"
http://thelandnews.blogspot.com
http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?p=184
Architecture for Humanity
http://architectureforhumanity.org
Amy Balkin "Public Domain"
http://www.thisisthepublicdomain.org
Arts & Ecology Programme, (RSA)
http://www.artsandecology.org
Other art & ecology links:
Andy Goldsworthy
http://images.google.com/images?q=andy+goldsworthy&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&sa=N&t
ab=ii&oi=imagest
Kurt Jackson
http://www.kurtjackson.co.uk/index.htm
Cape Farwell
http://www.capefarewell.com
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