The Batik Paintings of Mary Edna Fraser, retrospective of a renowned environmental artist By Cecelia Dailey An internationally renowned artist, Mary Edna Fraser’s architectural installations in silk have graced galleries, museums, and public buildings all via the USA―creating marvel, awe, and an consciousness of the environment. Using materials, wax, and dye, Fraser has reworked the […]
Excerpt:A model new e e-book from Duke Faculty Press, “Vanishing Sands: Dropping Seashores to Mining,” casts gentle on the shadowy world of sand mining by means of case analysis that illuminate its disastrous impacts and a concluding chapter that proposes widespread sense choices. Because of the customized of viewing seashores as public land, people have […]
Excerpt:In his sweeping new e-book, Peter Frankopan seems at how the native climate has modified human society—and the best way we have modified the native climate. Does native climate change straight have an effect on the local weather we experience? Until currently—for the earlier 40 years or so—that question has adopted virtually every major hurricane […]