Open Engagement | Art + Social Practice
If you are in Portland from May 17 - 19 ome join TSES artist Allison Rowe at this great conference about art and social engagement.
400 PPM: Are we even going to try to deal with this?
On May 9 it was announced that the Carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere has passed the 400 parts per million (ppm) mark. The last time our planetary atmosphere was this carbonic, the world was a radically different place absent of arctic sea ice, covered in massive deserts with sea levels 40 meters higher than they are today. There were even camels in the Arctic. When I imagine this time I picture a mash-up of tank girl’s sand shower, at the edge of a monsoon, inside an oven wrapped in hangover dry mouth.
For us at the TSES 400 ppm is a loaded number. Unlike a high test mark, this elevated number indicates that the citizens of the planet have not responded to the ever frantic calls of the science community to get our shit together and lower our carbon emissions. In 1992, we were at 350 ppm and in 2005 when the Kyoto Protocol came into effect we were already up to somewhere around 380 ppm. Things are getting worse, not better and the catastrophic weather events this kind of C02 causes have arguably already begun.
Though we at the TSES are highly disturbed by this ever elevating number, what is perhaps more upsetting is the fact that it seems although we are simply giving up.
Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Oil Sands Information Portal
The Oil Sands Information Portal is a searchable data repository, providing maps, reports, graphs, tables and downloads of current and historical trends and details.
What BP Doesn't Want You to Know About the 2010 Gulf Spill
The 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was even worse than BP wanted us to know.
Oil Spill Spotlights Keystone XL Issue: Is Canadian Crude Worse?
Photograph by Jacob Slaton, Reuters
Life After Oil and Gas?
Interesting article from the NY Times about a future without oil and gas.
Onsite Review: Oil
not the greatest format but there are a lot of interesting strategic propositions about the future of Canadian oil
