Environmental Graffiti

When Beaches Become Giant Sand Art Canvases

Peter Donnelly is an artist who can truly claim to see the bigger picture while attending to the devil that's in the detail. He is also an artist who is far from precious about his work, since few mediums can be as transitory as the one he chooses to work in. While humankind has surely been creating artworks out of sand since long before we have been able to preserve any trace of their existence, few sand artists can have worked on such a scale as Pete Donnelly.

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Whoa! Big Fly Swatters Can Also Capture CO2

Like many people today, the race to solve the climate change problem is as challenging as they come. Klaus Lackner, a professor of Geophysics at Columbia University, is working on an interesting concept to solve this problem: “synthetic trees”.

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