A very elegant and informative new online magazine Ensia, featuring articles on fact-based environmental action to fix real problems. Long-form reportage, and beautiful photography…
“Ensia is a magazine showcasing environmental solutions in action. … Ensia is powered by the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota with support from major foundations and private individuals.”
Excellent all-round, in presentation, writing, and focus.
Track down and chuckle at all those old pessimisms about the future, via the new 1956-1989 archive of New Scientist, freely searchable at Google Books.
“the more sophisticated the delegates were, the deeper was their pessimism — even to the extent of believing a “climatic flip” to have taken place within the past three years implying the imminent approach of a new Ice Age to be at hand …” (1974)
Or how about this, from 1970…
News of a beautiful ambitious large-scale art project, that also connects to the Long Now: “Artists complete replica of Lascaux cave paintings”…
Three years of work has gone into creating a true-to-life replica of renowned Stone Age cave paintings in southwestern France, and the 46 segments are ready to be transported and installed in a hillside near the original site in Montignac, in the Dordogne, about 500 kilometres south-southwest of Paris. The International Centre of Parital Art, 150 metres long and 9 metres high, will open by the end of the year [2016].
The original cave, discovered in 1940 and closed to the public since 1963, contains nearly 2,000 Upper Palaeolithic wall paintings depicting rhinos, horses, bison, deer and panthers – Europe’s most important collection of prehistoric art, by the oldest known modern humans, who came to Europe from Africa via Asia.
The website for the project is www.projet-lascaux.com.
New website links added to the growing sidebar list on this blog:—
Gapminder : a fact-based worldview.
HumanProgress.org : the state of humanity in data, charts and maps.
Our World in Data : visualising the empirical evidence on how the world is changing.
Terra Populus : Integrated Data on Population and Environment.
Guess which is the world’s fastest-growing region… and why…
20/20 : Tracking Optimism 