In this day and age, blogging has taken over the world. Personal blogs, religious blogs, political blogs, and blogs related to everything else under the sun exist. They come in all shapes and sizes and are efficient ways to spread opinions and information. A unique breed of blog addresses what happens when environmental issues and art are fused together.
The Eco Art Blog (http://ecoartblog.blogspot.com/) focuses on the cross section of art and ecology. Recent posts have discussed the use of wildflowers for public landscaping and temporary public installations of mini gardens in sidewalks. As a source of information, the Eco Art Blog provides international examples of ecological works of art.
EcoViz (http://ecoviz.org/) is an art review site. It reviews pro-environmental art and design projects. Recently reviewed is a campaign by the group Tappening. Tappening fights against the use of plastic water bottles. Modeled after the smear campaign by bottled water companies against tap water, one poster proclaimes "Bottled water causes blindness in puppies."
Most importantly, these blogs act to connect like minded people and similar blogs to one another. Each blog includes links to other blogs and links to websites of activism groups and artists. The blogs emphasize the recent re-articulation of enviornmental activists and serve as interesting places on the internet peruse. I suggest looking through both of these and clicking on some of their many links and seeing where it takes you.
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This is a really cool idea. It's awesome to see how environmentalism can be paired with really any hobby or interest--from art (like you mentioned) to clothing to food to transportation to resources, to exercise... really ANYTHING! The social networking aspect of this is even more exciting to really spread the word and make turn local acts into macro movements. I'm interested to see if environmental blogging in the other sectors is popular and research the effects of these!
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