July 30, 2008
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“P.F.1 (Public Farm One) is an urban farm concept that evokes the look of a flying carpet landing in the P.S.1 courtyard. Constructed from large cardboard tubes, its top surface will be a working farm, blooming with a variety of vegetables and plants. The structure will create a textured, colorful, and constantly changing surface in contrast with P.S.1’s angular concrete and gravel courtyard. P.F.1 will work as an interactive bridge between outside and inside, creating multiple zones of activity including swings, fans, sound effects, innovative seating areas, and a refreshing pool at its center. The installation will be a living structure made from inexpensive and sustainable materials recyclable after its use at P.S.1.”
stumbled across this and thought it sounded pretty rad, has anyone seen it? more here
-liz
July 25, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged food, veganism
there’s a mawrtyr (hannah upp ‘07) in the lead photo for this article about nyc freegans. represent!
-liz
July 15, 2008
· Filed under feminism
…which hopefully means “death to the patriarchy” in French. This photo is of a woman attaching a beard to a statue in Paris as a part of a demonstration by the feminist gropu La Barbe (the beard) to protest the dominance of male managers in the workforce (from The Washington Post’s express edition I got on the metro yesterday).
WOMYN LOVE,
steph
July 14, 2008
· Filed under animal rights · Tagged post by Jenny
July 10, 2008
· Filed under animal rights · Tagged post by Jenny
Interesting essay from friend of Batten, Lee Hall:
Animal rights activists. Everybody’s heard about them. They talk a lot about what they don’t want. But what do they want? What kind of rights, exactly, does an animal-rights activist have in mind?
Let’s start by thinking about why we use the term “rights” at all. Our law treats everything and everyone on Earth as a person or as a piece of property. To our law, there’s no meaningful category in between those two classifications — or beyond them. There’s property here, persons there. Things, and owners.
Not only are water and seeds and trees and beaches for sale, but conscious beings too are classified as property, available to be owned by persons. Persons may be those ubiquitous apes known as human beings, or, in certain circumstances, persons might be the businesses concocted by these same ubiquitous apes…
Read the rest here.
July 7, 2008
· Filed under environmentalism, human rights
Important article in the Times this morning about the ongoing effects of the industrial disaster in Bhopal, India:
Hundreds of tons of waste still languish inside a tin-roofed warehouse in a corner of the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory here, nearly a quarter-century after a poison gas leak killed thousands and turned this ancient city into a notorious symbol of industrial disaster.
Friends of Batten have visited and worked there — and, as the article points out, they still need help. Post-Bryn Mawr relief-work stories, anyone?
July 3, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged food, vegan
who’d a thunk the new york times would have some delish vegan recipes? as part of the 101 20-minute picnic dishes feature, numbers 9-19 feature raw veggies; i wanna try this one:
Process a cup or two of cashews, a chili or two, some garlic, a splash of soy sauce and enough water to get the food processor going; fold in chopped cilantro or chives. Fill celery sticks and chill.
55-60 are the fruit dishes; they’re not all vegan, but there are some interesting concoctions, like number 60 “Toss cornbread cubes with blueberries, lemon juice, olive oil and hazelnuts.”
Anyone have a summer vegan dish they’ve really been rockin?
- Liz
