Our recent exhibition at Flatbed Press with Annette Lawrence reached far and wide! People are interested and concerned about junk mail’s impact on the environment and excited about “free paper” as a creative material. The reach of the show extended nationally to San Francisco and Boston and internationally to Dublin, Ireland. Hundreds signed ForestEthics’ Do Not Mail Registry petition.
The show has created a partnership with 41pounds.org, a non-profit that takes the dozens of steps for you to stop junk mail to your home for five years. The added bonus is that your action also supports Austin Green Art!
$15 of the $41 to “un-mail” goes to AGA! Just select Austin Green Art from the pull-down menu when you Sign Up.
• By stopping your junk mail, you’ll conserve approximately 20 trees and 7,000 gallons of water, and prevent global warming emissions – and you’ll gain about 3,000 hours of free time!
Can you forward this info to your friends and encourage them to take action?
During the spring AGA will be shaping a longterm strategy to mobilize national action to un-mail as many people as we can through our creative, community-building and FUN brand of activism. If you’re interested to get involved as an Un-mailer, let me know. <randy@austingreenart.org>
Celebrate the Harvest & Collect produce/canned goods for Capital Area Food Bank!!!
5th and Waller, Sunday, October 31, 11 am – 3pm
Bring family, friends, canned goods, non-perishable food items (and produce from local farmers!) to contribute to the mandala installation. Wear colorful costumes for the parade and contest! Purchase a seedling to grow at home!
Community Partners: HOPE Farmers Market, Austin Green Art, The Sustainable Food Center, Theatre Action Project
Join us at the HOPE Market site on Saturday the 30th to help build the Mandala Food Donation Art Installation from 2 to 5pm.
We had a blast Sunday setting out the flags for the 15 acre art project to help raise awareness about climate change during the next round of international talks in Cancun. Make a micro DONATION to help buy 1000 lbs of rye seeds and run the tractors to seed the project. Johnson’s Backyard Garden
Thanks a million parts per million to for supporting our project:
Anne Robertson and Growing Grace
Kathy Zarsky and Heather Carter
Tom Roli, Anita Mennucci, Ben Bufkin and Steve Rutledge
An inspirational, truly diverse gathering at Growing Power Urban Agriculture Conference.
Will Allen was a generous host to 500+ farmers, NGOs, city planners and activists for a weekend of great info and great local food. Winona La Duke made a fabulous keynote featuring the quotation from her father: “You’re pretty smart and formally educated, but I don’t want to hear your philosophy until you can grow some corn!” Also Fritz Haeg made a great presentation closing with his newest focus on compost as artmaking. He revealed a recent op-ed that he wrote suggesting that the White House establish the “national compost pile” — to be placed at the FRONT DOOR of the White House!
Austin Green Art’s art projects were well received and we met some great kids from Added Value in Brooklyn, and Leo from Grown in Omaha, and Leah Gauthier, a green art professor from Butler University.
Join us Saturday, September 18 at 11am for Pancakes and the Low-down!
Quenton, Ashley and Chuck helped hang the steel sign at Eastside Memorial Green Tech High. We had to do some innovative positioning of the old gantry and truck to make it happen.
AGA submitted a Cultural Contracts application to the City of Austin for support of our 2010 thru 2011 Programming Season. You can download the overview and choose a program committee to get involved with.
Join Hill Country Conservancy and Austin Green Art to celebrate Earth Week this April – culminating in the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day on Thursday, April 22nd.
EARTH WEEK
Saturday, April 17 – Eat = Earth at Republic Square Park from 9am to 1pm (Join Austin Green Art and local food advocates – both for- and non-profit groups to an event focusing on how our eating affects our ecosystem) Download Event Info
Wednesday, April 21 – Earth Day Festival at The Triangle from 4 to 10pm Join thousands of your neighbors, local green businesses and environmental groups and the cultural community in a manifestation of the Sustainability Revolution! Products, services, food, kids activities, music, art, a movie, and more celebrating life in balance and restoration. Sponsored by Wheatsville Food Co-op. Download Earth Day Exhibitor Info. Download Earth Day Sponsor Info.
Wednesday, April 21 — Slow Money Austin Conference – 1 to 5pm — City Hall This April, Slow Money Austin brings the Slow Money movement home, spotlighting the exciting evolution of the Central Texas regional food economy. A vital relationship between people and the land is being rediscovered, and in that rediscovery lie opportunities — opportunities to support fertile soil, healthy agricultural ecosystems and related cultural pursuits, all of which will encourage the regional economy to thrive.
Thursday, April 22 – 40th Earth Day!! Slow Money Austin Fundraising Dinner at Barr Mansion
If your group is planning an Earth Day activity, please let us know so we can include it in EARTH WEEK promotions.
