Items created by ART 191: Eco Art and Design students this Fall 2015 semester. To create these works, students used found objects and materials, such as newspapers and magazines, safety pins, earphone rubber buds, paper clips, jewelry parts, discarded fabrics …
An Investigation by Joan Hoffman 11/2015 What is the potential impact of the Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty on sustainability? A review of some of the issues raised by critics and of the treaty itself reveals omissions, weaknesses and erosion …
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Students Take Part in Climate Change Theater Action project at John Jay College The new Sustainability and Environmental Justice program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, is proud to participate in ArtCop21 (http://www.artcop21.com), a worldwide arts festival leading up …
Students in SUS 200: Introduction to Sustainability Studies and their professor Milena Popov went this week to the South Bronx and took a tour with a community leader, Mychal Johnson. Mr. Johnson, South Bronx Unite community organization’s co-founder, showed and discussed …
ART 191: Eco Art and Design students have recently created ephemeral artworks (drawings, installations, and performances) with environmental messages in Central Park. By creating these artworks, students have engaged Central Park visitors in discussion and contemplation about various environmental issues …
Recently, ART 191: Eco Art and Design students visited few eco art exhibits in Chelsea galleries, before heading onto the High Line park. Students engaged with newspaper sculptures at the Kim Foster Gallery, found object assemblages at the Denise Bibro Fine …
These links are to an absolutely amazing project by JJ Prof Sandra Swenson. She received an NSF grant to teach NSF students to monitor Hudson River water quality. She created a lab that allows JJ students to do this testing. …
John Jay has a brand-new Environmental Club. Check out the events the club is sponsoring this Fall:
SEJ program member and John Jay Prof. Karen Malpede is blogging for the Kenyon Rewview in the run-up to COP21, the important UN Climate Conference in Paris this December. Her first post tackles the problem of mass-exctinction. It’s an important …