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Adapting to Rising Tides (ART) - Is a project of Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) The ART Bay Shoreline Flood Explorer is a website designed to help Bay Area communities, local governments, and the general public understand current and future flooding risks due to sea level rise and storms. The website will help users learn flood concepts, explore interactive flood maps, and download GIS data. These maps show what could be at risk without adaptation and identify specific areas that face the greatest risk, helping Bay communities, governments, and businesses to drive strategic action.

Unfolding Practice, Accordion Book Project - Todd Elkin and Arzu Mistry (we) began making accordion books to document, reflect, plan, and think expansively about our practice as artists and teachers. The act of making these books, and the ways of structured and unstructured thinking that drive and are driven by their making has become deeply woven, not only into our teaching and artistic practice but into the ways that we think, feel and act in the world. We made them together and separately and exchanged them. We started to share them with teachers and students all over the world and they in turn started to make and share them.

City of Alameda Climate Action Plan - Adapted in 2019, Alameda's Climate Action and Resiliency Plan has set an ambitious goal of reducing emissions by 50% below 2005 levels by 2030 and becoming carbon neutral as soon as possible. The CARP charts a course to achieve this goal through equitable improvements to transportation, buildings, energy use, and waste management.

Land Aknowledgements

Learning about Land Acknowledgment here!

Artist Resources

Cecilia Vicuña

In this short film, multidisciplinary artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña, a Hugo Boss Prize 2020 nominee, discusses the myriad of ways that form, language, displacement, and ritual play a dynamic role in her creative process. Exploring a range of diverse works that include everything from painting and installation to performance, poetry, and textile, this video reveals some of Vicuna’s methods that make it all come together.

“My process is not thinking,” says Vicuña. “My process is sensing, attending to that that is around us.”

Celia Vasquez Yui

THE COUNCIL OF THE MOTHER SPIRITS OF THE ANIMALS

Hand-formed ceramic vessels and zoomorphic sculptures that allude to a spiritual understanding of ecology, according to which a feature of all beings includes a mother spirit. Therefore, the compilation of a bestiary is not just a compendium of endangered species or a cry against their vanishing, but rather an invocation of their spirits, a call for them to come and hold space and perhaps confront the human gaze.

Alvin Ailey

WADE IN THE WATER

Using African-American spirituals, song-sermons, gospel songs and holy blues, Alvin Ailey’s Revelations fervently explores the places of deepest grief and holiest joy in the soul. Ailey said that one of America’s richest treasures was the African-American cultural heritage—“sometimes sorrowful, sometimes jubilant, but always hopeful.” This enduring classic is a tribute to that tradition, born out of the choreographer’s “blood memories” of his childhood in rural Texas and the Baptist Church.

Matt Harvey (Poet)

PRAISE OF WHALES

Poetry Power: Art & Science working together to imagine better possible futures.

Poem Focus: The Green Whale and Whale Poo

Hot Poets is an Arts Council England-funded project run by Tongue Fu, Chris Redmond and Liv Torc for COP26, placing 12 of our most exciting spoken word artists within organisations in the UK, Africa and the Netherlands working at ground zero of climate change, including the Met Office, the RSPB and the London School of Economics. Learning from global experts, the Hot Poets have researched, written and filmed 12 special poetry commissions, exploring beyond the climate crisis to the science and imagination needed to save our world. The poems are being released one a day throughout COP26.

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner + Aka Niviâna

Rise: From One Island to Another

Watch this poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), connecting their realities of melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna use their poetry to showcase the linkages between their homelands in the face of climate change. Through this video we get a glimpse at how large, and yet so small and interdependent our world is.

Josie Iselin

Art and Algae

Josie Iselin is the photographer, author, and designer of many books, Her books focus on those forms in nature we find at hand and in particular, at the beach. Her newest book, The Curious World of Seaweed features sixteen visually rich narratives of our iconic West Coast seaweeds and kelps. Josie’s mission is to produce enticing, well-researched and well-designed books that combine art and science, leaving the reader with new information about, and an appreciation for, the world around them. Her writing and art focusing on seaweed, kelp, and sea otter puts her at the forefront of ocean activism, presenting and working with scientists and environmental groups working to preserve the kelp forests of our Pacific Coast.

JOSIE ISELIN_ART & ALGAE, June 14, 2022.pptx

See more of Josie's work here.

Trisha Hersey

The Nap Minstry

The Nap Ministry was founded in 2016 by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps. Our “REST IS RESISTANCE” framework and practice engages with the power of performance art, site-specific installations, and community organizing to install sacred and safe spaces for the community to rest together. We facilitate immersive workshops and curate performance art that examines rest as a radical tool for community healing. We believe rest is a form of resistance and name sleep deprivation as a racial and social justice issue.

climate action & intersectional organizations

Intersectional Environmentalists - The earth and its ecosystems thrive on diversity and so does climate action.

360.ORG - an international movement of ordinary people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all.

Regeneration - A project of environmental activist Paul Hawken, Regeneration puts life at the center of every action and decision. It applies to all of life—grasslands, farms, insects, forests, fish, wetlands, coastlands, and oceans—and it applies equally to family, communities, cities, schools, religion, commerce, and governments. And most spectacularly to climate.

Youth Vs. Apocalypse is a diverse group of young climate justice activists working together to lift the voices of youth, in particular youth of color and working class youth. Their collective action aims to fight for a livable climate and an equitable, sustainable, and just world.

Celebrate black Environmental Leaders

Check out the Black Environmental Leaders page!

Birding resources

Check out birding resouces here!

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