Art
Love tribute made by shaping a heart with thousands of oak trees.
A devoted farmer created this touching heart-shaped meadow as a tribute to his late wife – by planting thousands of oak trees. Dedicated Winston Howes, 70, spent a week planting each oak sapling after his wife of 33 years Janet died suddenly 17 years ago. He laid out the fledgling trees in a six-acre field [...]
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Shocking Eco Art: Our Waste by the Numbers
On first glance, every piece in artist Chris Jordan’s collection, “Running the Numbers,” appears to be simply a beautiful work of modern art. But look more closely, and you’ll see that each piece depicts the enormous amount of natural resources we consume and throw away – represented by plastic bags, light bulbs or packing [...]
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The Big Fishes – Plastic Bottles Installation | Rio de Janeiro
A fish sculpture constructed from discarded plastic bottles rises out of the sand at Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 19, 2012. The city is host to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, which runs through June 22. Photo credit: Victor R. Caivano / AP, Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters
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La Ola, the scary plastic wave
La Ola, “The Wave”, is a public art installation project that stands 9 meters high in the center of San Jose, Costa Rica. To fill The Wave, 6,000 plastic bottles were braided to get a texture that simulates a colossal plastic wave suffocating the city with its toxic components. Each year, Costa Rica imports the [...]
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Abu Dhabi artist with a green motif
Suhail Jashanmal promotes local talent to foster community involvement. Abu Dhabi Suhail Jashanmal considers himself an active advocate for the environment who has chosen art as the medium to further the cause. Born in India, he considers the UAE home. A fire that ravaged a mangrove helped him make up his mind about what he [...]
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