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  • Marbre d’Ici, Stefan Shankland

    Sustainable Culture | Coal

    Every year the COAL prize is awarded to an outstanding project exploring art and the environment – and with almost 400 submissions from over 40 different...

  • Still from Gasland

    Sustainable Culture | Under Pressure

    Imagine waking up to find that the water coming out of your kitchen tap is as flammable as petrol. You strike a match, turn the tap and find your sink full of...

  • Waste Land, UK/Brazil, 2009

    Sustainable Culture | Wasted Land

    Located on the Northern outskirts of Rio de Janiero, just over the shoulder of the city’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, lies Gramacho Gardens. Far from...

  • Ilkka Halso Museum of Nature, Work in progress, from 2000

    Sustainable Culture | Escape Capsule

    Opening tomorrow at Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, the Climate Capsules exhibition highlights twenty-five micro habitats “intended to make human life...

  • Still from Catalytic Clothing

    Sustainable Culture | Catalytic Clothing

    Imagine walking down a bustling city street, wearing a chic but very normal-looking white dress. As cars, buses and delivery trucks rush past and the exhaust...

  • Staines, After The Fall

    Sustainable Culture | Battlegrounds

    Driven by a fascination for strange spaces and guided by satellite mapping, Malaysia-born photographer Hin Chua has spent the past four years venturing out to...

  • The Long River, Nadav Kander

    Sustainable Culture | Before & After

    Two photography books from the German art publisher Hatje Cantz crossed our (sustainably sourced birch) desk recently, each showing two very different kinds of...

  • PARADISE 15, 1999

    Sustainable Culture | Overgrowth

    Now in its third year, the Prix Pictet is an annual photography competition based around a theme related to sustainability. Water in 2008 and Earth in 2009...

  • Sloy Dam Tailrace

    Sustainable Culture | Earth Energy

    A few months back, we caught up with photographer Toby Smith to chat about his photos of illegal logging in Madagascar. Now, following on from his...

  • Earthrise, Apollo 8

    Sustainable Culture | Greening space

    Massive rockets spewing flame. Spent fuel tanks falling back into the ocean. Orbiting debris clogging up the space beyond the sky. Think of outer space and the...

  • Masoala National Park, Madagascar, August 26, 2009

    Sustainable Culture | Bois de Rose

    Deep in the forests of Madagascar, the periodic but incessant sound of axes meeting wood echoes through the trees. A slow drip feed of rare rosewood timber...

  • Great Mud Mosque, Djenné

    Sustainable Culture | Earth Science

    Walking through the current exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London is like walking back to the future – a more natural, more...