View source for Literature, Art, and the Environment

Art can also be found on [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Multimedia Multimedia] page.

Although we think of writing and thinking about the environment as mostly being done by scientists and scholars, important contributions have also been made by artists, writers, painters and photographers.

See also [http://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Writing Writing page]

Science fiction dealing with the environment can be found on the [http://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Ecological_and_Social_Utopias Ecological and Social Utopias page]

== Nonfiction: ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Environmental_non-fiction_books Wikipedia book list] ,<br / >

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_non-fiction_environmental_writers Wikipedia author list]

E. Abbey [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Solitaire ''Desert Solitaire''] 

W. Berry, ''Unsettling America'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqrHvvMNz0 video of him reading a poem]

Mike Davis [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Quartz City of Quartz] McHenry Stacks HN80.L7 D38 2006
[http://www.ludd.net/essays/davis.html summary] <br / > 
[http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~broglio/1101/davis.html excerpt on urban space]<br / > 
[http://www.salon.com/it/feature/1998/12/cov_07feature.html critique] 

Aldo Leopold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sand_County_Almanac A Sand County Almanac]  is a 1949 book by American ecologist and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. [http://www.naturenet.com/alnc/aldo.html Aldo Leopold's] "The Land Ethic" (from ''Sand County Almanac'')  [http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/landethic.html Link]. 


== Poetry ==


[http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/jeffers/jeffers.htm Robinson Jeffers]

[http://www.poetseers.org/contemporary_poets/jane_hirshfield/ Jane Hirschfield]

Mary Oliver [http://www.onearth.org/article/straight-talk-from-fox "Straight Talk from a Fox"]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Snyder Gary Snyder]  Beat poet ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac Kerouac] based a Dharma Bum character on him), now the subject of a film [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH-0WLiNLQM&feature=related (video intro)]. See also [http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Practice-of-the-Wild/328870046224?ref=ts The Practice of the Wild]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqrHvvMNz0 video of conversation including Wendell Berry]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SXDe9hnfI&feature=related extensive interview on poetry and ecology].


== Film ==

Many anime movies by Hayao Miyazaki carry a hidden environmentalist message. The best-known is Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but also well known is Pom Poko as well as Princess Mononoke, which is based on a conflict between technology and nature


== Photography ==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams Ansel Adams]. Jonathan H. Spaulding, Cowell '82 ''Ansel Adams and the American Landscape'', U. of California Press, 1995

The Roots of California Photography [videorecording] : The Monterey legacy  c2002 McHenry Library Film & Music VT8907 


[http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/ Edward Burtynsky]


== Art ==

[http://www.grist.org/cities/2011-11-03-can-the-arts-save-struggling-cities Can Art save cities?] For example, [http://www.grist.org/cities/2011-11-04-dr.-dirt-street-artist-scrubs-images-into-the-urban-landscape Dr. Dirt: Street artist] scrubs images into the urban landscape. 11/11.

[http://earth.350.org/ 350.org Art on climate]

[http://bekandnik.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/11/ 7 Days, 7 Artists, 7 Rings], is a living, responsive work of art created by Rebecca Campbell and Nicole Walker. Each week the painter and poet, respectively, alternate kicking off the current week’s collaborative artist project. Painters and poets, photographers and essayists, musicians and story writers will collaborate to create ongoing, live-made art. The responses will come daily, with artists having only twenty-four hours to respond to each others’ work.  Here, Rebecca Lindenberg responds to Rebecca Campbell 's "For Fever Babies."

Questions About Beauty

How wind finishes <br/>
wood into bone socket,<br/>
breath-only intoning over<br/>
and over it. How<br/>
summer's fevered mind<br/>
gathers spool and frond<br/>
into nests lovely as they are<br/>
curious - I have<br/>
so many questions<br/>
about beauty. How black<br/>
shimmers in a wing,<br/>
why crickets remember light<br/>
in their shrill purr,<br/>
how unstill is any given leaf,<br/>
how many words there aren't<br/>
for the idea of green. Why<br/>
does beauty elicit longing,<br/>
for what god? What if<br/>
splendor's not in things but<br/>
transformations? The same<br/>
wind tarnishing a trunk,<br/>
thin reeds can capture into song.<br/>
Chrysalis, snakeskin, bay<br/>
wreath, splendid remnants<br/>
of change not wrought,<br/>
just witnessed. Attention<br/>
into ecstasy, feather<br/>
into moonrise, stem<br/>
into instrument and branch<br/>
into artifact, itself, again.<br/>


See [http://www.greenmuze.com/ Greenmuze] for  [http://www.greenmuze.com/art.html Art], and [http://www.greenmuze.com/waste.html Waste] and [http://www.greenmuze.com/green-your/space/2736-recycled-banner-lights-.html Space]

[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/haiku-reviews-from-books-_n_791400.html#s197862 Vik Muniz], Atlanta and Hippomenes after Guido Reni (Pictures of Junk)

[http://www.ted.com/talks/dianna_cohen_tough_truths_about_plastic_pollution.html Artist Dianna Cohen] shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives. [http://www.ted.com/ TEDtalk video]


'''Music'''

[http://www.greenmuze.com/waste/recycling/2610-the-junk-symphony-.htmlJunk Symphony]

UCSC's Elliot Anderson and Jennifer Parker are
featured artists in [http://www.kala.org/exhibitions/current.html Groundswell]. Parker and Barney Haynes present a new media installation that interactively engages gallery viewers with solar wind data. Anderson examines the technological landscape with a hydroponic garden that phytoremediates water polluted with mercury and other heavy metals left from 19th century mining operations.

Local singer-songwriter Vienna Teng, whose songs are hauntingly beautiful, has raised money for green efforts and walked her talk on merchandising; she's going back to school to study green business but performing 5/17 in Santa Cruz [http://news.santacruz.com/2010/05/13/vienna_tengs_musical_progression Link]

[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121631222 Laura Veirs] often writes about the joy of being in nature, inspired by farmers' market peaches and canoe river trips.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM6fDpWdkyY Cuyahoga] On June 22, 1969, an oil slick and debris in the Cuyahoga River caught fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to environmental problems in Ohio and elsewhere in the United States and led to the Clean Water Act.  Recently, the reclamation of the river was celebrated.


'''Sculpture'''


[http://www.greenmuseum.org/ Environmental art]

[http://www.greenmuze.com/art/artists/3148-pet-bottle-jellyfish-art.html Jellyfish made out of plastic bottles]

[http://www.greenmuze.com/art/artists/2880-recycled-robotic-elephant-.html Giant robot elephant] from recycled materials (from [http://www.greenmuze.com Greenmuze])

[http://www.greenmuze.com/nature/garden/3172-amazing-stick-sculptures-.html elegant sculpture with sticks]

"Without a doubt, with no hyperbole: [http://www.strandbeest.com/ Theo Jansen ] is an absolute genius. Listen to his talk about the new creatures he builds from 'plastic tubes and lemonade bottles'"...[http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/05/mesmerizing-kinetic-sculptures.html Link]

[http://www.greenmuze.com/art/artists/2651-polar-bear-suicide-art-.html Polar Bear suicides]

UCSC Digital Arts bio-art [http://danm.ucsc.edu/research/methodologies-bio-art-spring-2008-winter-2009]


'''Images'''

[http://www.greenmuze.com/art/artists/2821-haunting-oil-spill-art-.html Oil Spill portraits]

A [http://themannahattaproject.org/science/recreating-mannahatta/ Muir Web] is a complex mapping of an ecosystem.  The term was coined by the [http://themannahattaproject.org/ Mannahatta Project], which has an amazing recreation of New York City. (here are some [http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/05/15/ba-manhattan_aer_0500137540.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article%3Ff%3D/c/a/2009/05/17/RV2M17E5HJ.DTL%26o%3D2&usg=__aDJa0WeAFsfgOy40cMzZ08rZ-WI=&h=512&w=375&sz=22&hl=en&start=21&um=1&tbnid=m_-YEqweIUSPtM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=96&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmannahatta%2Bimages%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1 images]). Here's an [http://slowmotionrevelations.blogspot.com/2009/09/muir-web-3version-f.html artist's interpretation] of its symmetry, beauty and complexity.

UCSC has produced at least three world class nature photographers:  [http://review.ucsc.edu/winter-02/alumni_profile.html Gordon Wiltsie] (NPR [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6181441 audio interview)], 
[http://www.lanting.com/worldview.html[http://www.lanting.com/worldview.html Frans Lanting] (a [http://www.lanting.com/worldview.html TEDtalk video]), and [http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1139 Kennan Ward].  

[http://www.extremeicesurvey.org/ Jim Balog] won the Rowell Award.  Here he documents global warming.  Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.[http://www.ted.com/talks/james_balog_time_lapse_proof_of_extreme_ice_loss.html Link]

[http://5gyres.org/ Five Gyres] project is sailing to all major subtropical oceanic gyres (North and South Pacific, North and South Atlantic, and Indian Ocean) in order to study the every growing problem of marine plastic pollution. See [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stiv-j-wilson/atlantic-garbage-patch-ne_b_539468.html?show_slideshow_ads=1&slidenumber=OgSn%2Bgcf%2F0w%3D&slideshow#slide_image slideshow]

In this image-filled talk, [http://www.yannarthusbertrand.org/v2/yab_us.htm Yann Arthus-Bertrand] displays his three most recent projects on humanity and our habitat -- stunning aerial photographs in his series "The Earth From Above," [http://www.ted.com/talks/yann_arthus_bertrand_captures_fragile_earth_in_wide_angle.html TEDtalk] video.  Download his amazing new movie [http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html Home].

[http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/ Andy Goldsworthy] uses natural materials for his sculptures/photographs [http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1610464,00.html Interview] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TWBSMc47bw Rivers and Tides] (video)

[http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/povray,spiral More nature inspired art], but groovier

[http://goddessontheloose.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/e20080808milkhill02.jpg Crop circles] another [http://goddessontheloose.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/e20080808milkhill01.jpg one]

[http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/40 Frans Lanting] presents The [http://www.lifethroughtime.com/experience.html LIFE Project], a collection that tells the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity. Hoping for a glimpse of the world the way it was in the age of photosynthesizing stromatolites, "back before the sky turned blue," Lanting journeyed to a remote lagoon in Australia, the only place in the world where stromatolites still exist. The story moves forward from there, via a lyrical collection of photographs set to a soundtrack from Philip Glass. TEDtalk video

[http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/10/poptech2007-chris-jordan.php Stunning images] of accumulated consumer goods and resources by Chris Jordan.  [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/279 TEDtalk video] [http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09212007/watch3.html PBS episode].  Chris Jordan's heart-rending [http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11 images of Albatross chicks] who starved to death with their stomachs full of plastic.

[http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/ Photographer Edward Burtynsky] documents how humans alter the world, and to a lesser degree the people engaged in doing the work [http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/Ships/Shipbreaking/Shipbreaking_11.jpg (example)].  [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/edward_burtynsky_on_manufactured_landscapes.html Video of TEDtalk accepting his award].  A video, ''Manufactured Landscapes'', [http://www.mongrelmedia.com/press/Manufactured_Landscapes/Man_Land.mov (trailer)] was made about his trip to China and its factories and the Three Gorges Dam.  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67j7JlEZzpQ Excerpt].

[http://photo.newsweek.com/content/photo/2009/7/photos--the-worst-man-made-environmental-disasters.html Eco-disaster slideshow ]

Jesus Bubu Negron, a Puerto Rican artist, made this [http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/9684/jesus-bubu-negron-cigarette-butt-street-rug.html rug out of cigarette butts] found on the streets. [http://www.universes-in-universe.de/car/sharjah/eng/2007/tour/img-23.htm link]

[http://emptyla.com/ "Empty Los Angeles"] pictures remind me of best-selling book [http://books.google.com/books?id=bOBB-veGda8C&dq=a+world+without+us&source=gbs_navlinks_s The World Without Us] [http://www.worldwithoutus.com/multimedia.html  multimedia]

[http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/08/60-stunning-satellite-photos-of-earth/ 60 Stunning satellite images] of Earth

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ucumari/sets/72157594343511011/ Valerie Ucumari's photos of animals]

[http://www.sophiegerrard.com/SophieStoriesEwaste19.html Sophie Gerrard's images of e-waste in India]


'''Other Media'''


[http://www.chelseagreen.com/2005/items/nobodyparticular Graphic Novel] on [http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/58/18695 Diane Wilson] [http://www.chelseagreen.com/2006/items/unreasonablewomanpa Wilson's book, ''An Unreasonable Woman'']

Webcomic by [http://xkcd.com/556/ XKCD]


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