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Tag Archives: art
Cultural traditions, environmental conservation and international development
Originally posted on Shonil Bhagwat:
Community mosaic, Edgbaston, Birmingham (Source: Jackie Nash Art) This mosaic is an example of living with difference in a multicultural society and forms a good analogy for the co-existence of cultural traditions, environmental conservation and…
Posted in food, knowledge transfer
Tagged art, conservation, development, farmer, gardener, religion, tradition
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Biocultural refugia
Originally posted on Shonil Bhagwat:
A modern-day sacred natural site: Sancheti organic farm near Pune, India, on mappingthesacred.org Pune, the small town where I grew up, is now a bustling metropolis of 6 million people. In my visit to the city…
Posted in agriculture, food
Tagged art, city, conservation, culture, development, family farm, farmer, food, food sovereignty, history, land use, map, organic, peasant, religion, research, smallholder
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What has art ever done for science?
argylesock says… This is a timely reminder. I’m starting to write for an online magazine where, I find, my scientist’s preference for words and graphs can be limiting. Like every biologist I know, I can sketch diagrams with ease – … Continue reading
It’s agricultural, but is it art?
Jeremy Cherfas at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog shows us two art projects about grains. I love the one about high fructose corn syrup. The one about printed landscapes is harder to understand, but as Jeremy says, art is supposed to make … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, knowledge transfer
Tagged art, biodiversity, biofuel, corn, crop, ecosystem, finance, food, food processing, grain, habitat fragmentation, knowledge, landscape, maize, oats, plant_monocot, technology, wild flower, wildlife
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Hedgehog is preferred UK natural emblem
Originally posted on LEARN FROM NATURE:
From the Guardian : It is a prickly character with a voracious appetite, a passion for gardens and a noisy sex life, and now the hedgehog has been chosen as the best natural emblem for…
Posted in ecology
Tagged art, breeding, conservation, education, garden, hedgehog, mammal, native species, nest, vertebrate, wildlife
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Sickle Cell Disease
argylesock says… Here’s a graphic image of what goes wrong when a person has sickle cell anaemia. It’s caused by a recessive allele, meaning that if you’re heterozygous you’re a carrier. You don’t get the disease but if you have … Continue reading
Posted in human health
Tagged art, disease, disease resistance, genetic disease, human, malaria, neglected disease, research, tropical disease
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A World Without Bees
Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
The world’s bee populations have been under stress in recent years, fueling concerns over the future of agriculture. The combination of colony collapse disorder—the cause of which remains disputed—and expanded use of certain classes…
Posted in agriculture, ecology, food, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, art, arthropod, clothianidin, colony collapse disorder, disease, food, grocery, honeybee, hymenopteran, imidacloprid, insect, insecticide, neonicotinoid, pesticide, politics, pollination, thiamethoxam, wild bee
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Bee killing isn’t only about neonics
A few weeks ago, great news! The European Union banned three ‘bee killers’ – neonicotinoid pesticides. Three neonics with the, er, catchy names clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. The ban will come into force on 1st December this year, and it … Continue reading
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Tagged art, arthropod, climate, clothianidin, conservation, corn, crop, dinotefuran, fipronil, flower, history, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, law, maize, nectar, neonicotinoid, pest, pesticide, phenylpyrazole, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, poison, politics, pollen, pollination, research, seed, sunflower, thiamethoxam, wild bee
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Wellcome Image of the Month: Malaria
argylesock says… Malaria continues to be one of the world’s great killers.
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Tagged apicomplexan, art, arthropod, dipteran, disease, human, insect, malaria, mosquito, parasite, tropical disease, vector
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First International Forest Day
Originally posted on The Hollywood Forest Story : An EcoSocial Art Practice | Co. Carlow Ireland:
Holly looking forward, Dec 2010. Photo Cathy Fitzgerald “Making films is the contemporary art form really, essentially you can put across a lot of facts about…
Posted in ecology
Tagged alien species, art, bluebell, ecosystem, forest, indicator species, landscape, native species, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, tree, woodland
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