I Thought the Earth Remembered Me

The forest is teeming with activity: fungi transform dead logs into nutrients, roots entangle themselves with the earth, and strong winds break resilient boughs. Like the forest, the human body functions according to a complex system of agents - from the micro bacteria in the gut to the pores of the skin. The built world has often been rendered in opposition to these processes of nature. As a vessel through which the world is experienced, the body is an intermediary between raw matter and fabricated things. The planet is suffused with human life, and there is a critical tension between human production and the well-being of the biosphere. Is there an ecological benefit to dissolving the division between the human-made and the organic? My exhibition, I Thought the Earth Remembered Me, integrates the ambiguous forms of the forest into mass-produced sheetrock walls in order to break down the boundary between the built and natural world. Through making, I hope the work unearths a way to be enchanted on a damaged planet

Country Report: United Kingdom: Energy, badgers and noise pollution

The full version of the report can be viewed at the link below.The United Kingdom (UK), like many other industrialised countries, faces a multitude of challenges balancing its consumptive needs, the management of its ecosystems and ecological footprint. This Country Report will focus on these challenges in the context of the Energy Act (2011), the Government’s proposed changes to Feed-in-Tariffs (FITS) for renewable energy and the National Ecosystem Assessment. This Report will also provide a brief update on the Welsh badger cull discussed in issue 2(1) of the eJournal