EARTH 2050

 

Earth 2050: Create a better world

Celebrate Earth Day

This year our Making It Green, a photograph of plastic plants that we've collected from Kehoe Beach will be on display at the Mill Valley Community Center, Sunday, April 24, from 1-5 PM as part of a family friendly festival with amazing art, fun games, inspiring talks, good food and music. Learn more at www.greenchange.net 

Simulacraceae is the satirical taxon given to faux plants by botanists from Cornell and Yale. Plastic plants are new since the 1950’s but even ancient Egyptians manufactured plants of metal and stone and papyrus. Plastic fruit and flowers endure, never drawing fruit flies or bees. It’s plastic, it lasts forever, no watering, no refrigeration required. 

From the Journal of Ethnobotany Research and Applications a scholarly article that describes the taxonomy, ecology, and ethnobotany of Artificae Palantae Simulacraceae. HERE.

Mill Valley Recreation

180 Camino Alto 

Mill Valley, CA 94941

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On March 28, we arrived at the Cliff House for the closing party for Lands End feeling a bit sad, being at the end, the final moments, of such a grand enterprise. The conclusion of a show is always bittersweet, but after all it gave us a real uplift. 

We were so happy to be in the warm embrace of the for-site staff and docents who gave so much of their precious time to Lands End. They graced us with their stories about the people, the kids of all ages, who were amazed at the beauty of the luminous presentation and horrified at the reality of all that plastic. We heard about the kids who were full of good questions, "how did this ever end up on the beach?" Most of the stuff was familiar (straws, cutlery) but they were really curious about the plastic noodle extrusions and the shot-gun wads.

It was such a pleasure to be amongst such a fine group of kindred spirits who expressed their personal gratitude and on behalf of the thousands of attendees who were were deeply moved and changed by our kitchen and the entire Lands End experience. As artists one of the great rewards is to have a vision then be able to realize it and in this case, to have an entire kitchen to serve up our plastic.

In turn we want to express our gratitude to all who made for here or to go? possible.

It has never been more important for artists and activists to join together in combating the existential threat of climate change. Lands End did what you/we had envisioned - using art to activate the conversation.

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for here or to go? is gone.

Our motto at home is clean as you go.

Here's the before (top) and after (bottom).

July 1, 2021

 April 11, 2022

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IN RE:

What fun to be out and about for the ReImagine Gala at the Randall Musuem. After the long days of Covid sheltering and restrictions we were renewed and reenergized. We are at the ready for more. With old friends and new — such a grand opening.

We agree with curator Lady Bee when she said, it’s time to revamp our ideas of the commercial art world and repurpose the use of resources — making reuse the new norm…Plus, the artworks in ReImagine give us so many other re’s to add to the familiar Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. They are a testimony to the power of the imagination to envision and revision creative responses to the complex environmental challenges we face. 

We were delighted to find the restore, reset, reclaim hats in our swag bags giving us yet another reason to put on our sustainable thinking caps and keep the sounds of recreation reverberating.

We tip our hats in thanks, to recognize everyone who worked so very hard to make the afternoon a resounding success. 

We are revved with love and gratitude. 

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