Superkilen Celebrates Diversity in Copenhagen
Superkilen is a kilometer-long park situated in the Nørrebro area just north of Copenhagen’s city center. Superkilen is home to more than 60 nationalities, and is considered to be one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the Danish capital. The hope is that Superkilen can help revitalize the area by giving it a global [...]
Working on Renewables
Europe is the world’s leading investor in renewable energies, representing together an annual turnover of more than €137 billion and providing over 1.1 million jobs in Europe. In collaboration with the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), Revolve launched an initiative to highlight the human dimension of renewables by showing workers on projects around Europe. Coming [...]
Soweto: Living with Mine Waste
In South Africa, mining has been a blessing and a curse, particularly for those who were drawn to work on gold mines since the late 1880’s and the uranium mines since the late 1940’s. Once the industry was established, gold and uranium fields were settled in Soweto (South Western Townships). Beyond basic health issues related [...]
Distant Paradise
Taking as their starting point images that depict the tangible reality of man-made wastelands, Wilmes & Mascaux probe the transience (or the pretension) of a civilization whose abuse of the natural world does not speak in its favor. As part of their project, they have “scanned” the memory of chaotic landscapes in Mexico, Europe, Quebec, the U.S.A. and Australia. In margin of the world, [...]
Sponges and the Source of Life
Sponges (Phylum Porifera) are the oldest metazoan group still existing on Earth. Apart from the commercially bath sponges well known since the Greek civilization, more than 7,000 species are currently described and new ones are regularly discovered. They have remarkably survived over Earth’s changing chemical history since the Late Cambrian (509 MYA) in all aquatic [...]
Barren Icelandic Beauty
When one says Iceland, one thinks nature. When Marjoesjka Lavigne went to Iceland for four months, she was enamored by the levels of brightness and vividness of the Nordic landscapes. The game in between the whites of the snow and the endless shadows of greens gives the scenery beautiful textures. Lavigne contemplated such landscapes during [...]
Scanning the Rainforests – CAO
Led by Dr. Greg Asner at the Carnegie Institution for Science, the Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) is mapping the rainforests around the world by measuring biodiversity density with laser scanners attached to a twin turboprop plane (Dornier 228). The CAO combines 3D spectroscopic and laser imaging with unique scientific approaches to study, explore and conserve [...]
“Dryland Farming” in Monegros, Spain
In 2010, Edward Burtynsky photographed agricultural areas in Spain including Monegros, a hilly,semi-desert area with extreme climatic conditions. Drawn by the organic expansion of farming areas created by successive divisions of land, Burtynsky became fascinated with the extraordinary level of visual complexity of Monegros he saw from a bird’s eye view. The resulting photographs here [...]
Oaxaca’s greener than green
Green tourism is gaining ground in Mexico. The National Agreement for Tourism focuses on sustainable tourism and encourages environmental protection projects. In 2011, more than 7.4 million visitors travelled to 174 protected natural areas, exceeding the expected total of 6 million, according to the Mexican english newspaper, The News. In the Sierra Norte mountain range [...]
The Coal Fires of Jharia
In Jharia, in the Jharkhand state of eastern India, coal mining, scavenging and picking plays an overwhelming role in the lives of 600,000 inhabitants. Once abundant woodlands, Jharia is now an apocalyptic landscape of contaminated soil, water and air. Coal seam fires spew around 1.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year into the atmosphere [...]
