3 Rivers 2nd Nature
Five-year eco-art project addressing the meaning, form and function of three rivers and 53 streams of Allegheny County in Western Pennsylvania. Directed by artists Tim Collins and Reiko Goto.

7000 Oaks
Joseph Beuys' environmental arts project to plant 7,000 oak trees throughout Kassel, Germany, the first stage in a global scheme of tree planting to effect environmental and social change. Being continued after Beuys' death by Dia Center for the Arts.

AMD&Art
Uses the arts and community engagement to address abandoned mine drainage in Pennsylvania. Directed by T. Allan Comp.

American Artist and Water Reclamation
U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation program to present its accomplishments to the public through the medium of art.

Art & Community Landscapes
Partnership of the National Park Service the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and NEA supporting residency projects to inspire greater involvement in protecting and enhancing rivers, trails, and greenways in collaboration with local communities.

Art Culture Nature
Membership organization dedicated to exploration of connections between environmental and artistic practice. Bi-annual conferences, occasional retreats, local watershed meeting groups. Newsletter, listserv.

Art That Works: T. Allan Comp and the Reclamation of a Toxic Legacy
Profile of T. Allan Comp, founder of AMD&Art (Acid Mine Drainage and Art), a project to reclaim toxic former coalmines using science, design, sculpture and history. Discusses community involvement in a reclamation project in Vintondale, Pa. By Eric Reece, author of "Lost Mountain: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia" (Riverhead, 2006). Published online in DemocraticVistasProfiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy by the Center for Arts Policy, Columbia College Chicago, 2006. 12 pp.

Art for the Environment
Initiative of the New World Museum and the U.N. Environment Programme. Creation and installation of visual-art exhibits worldwide in conjunction with major events such as World Environment Day (5 June) and UNEP Champions of the Earth awards. Unlearning Intolerance Seminars, performance festivals, international symposiums, competitions.

Arts & Ecology
Program supporting work of the arts in examining and addressing environmental concerns in an international arena. Conferences, publications, competitions and projects that look at arts efforts to challenge and propose solutions to pollution, waste and loss of natural habitats. Exchanges between artists and politicians, scientists, journalists. Commissions. Blog. Based in U.K.

Bird Brain
"Navigational project" by Jennifer Monson and dance company: five-year investigation of migratory pathways of whales and birds across northern and southern hemispheres.

Bringing Nature to Life
Guide to "The Use of Performance Art for Environmental Restoration" by community performance artist Nanda Currant, who works in home school and charter school education programs.

COPIA
The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts. Nonprofit "discovery center" in California's Napa Valley with artists' exhibitions, concerts, films, lectures, performances and special gardens, including Forks in the Road and Edible Gardens (children).

Caldera
Nonprofit arts-education organization with a mission to foster creativity among underserved youth and adults, "believing that the arts and the out-of-doors are powerful vehicles for fostering creativity and a strong sense of self-worth." Programs take place in schools and community centers throughout Portland and Central Oregon, and at Caldera’s Blue Lake facility in the Oregon Cascades. Programs: arts partnerships, artist school residencies, summer arts retreats, apprenticeships, retreats for professional artists and writers.

California Wash
Environmental artwork by Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison encompassing a city block at an environmentally degraded state beach in Santa Monica, Calif.

Centre for Landscape & Environmental Arts Research
CLEAR explores and promotes how the arts can contribute to our understanding of landscape and the environment. Cross-sector approach through arts, humanities, sciences. Seminars, publications (Unipress imprint), arts research projects. Based in Cumbria, England.

Children's Landscape
Archive of Norwegian architect Frode Svane's findings about participating with children and youth in city planning, landscape and school architecture, school grounds, green schools and "nature" schools. Rich in theory, workshop methods and photos

Choral Earth
Organization that partners choral music and civic engagement for social change and healing. Consultations on "greening your chorus." Choral Earth circle membership program with benefits. Sing Your Part online initiative. Founded in 2000 at Singing Farm in Central Virginia by Rachel Bagby.

Christo & Jean-Claude
Temporary large-scale environmental works in urban and rural environments with elements of painting, sculpture, architecture and urban planning.

Coming Home
Canadian artist Devora Neumark's projects about interrelationships between creative energy and activism, human rights, environmental wellbeing and conflict resolution.

Community Built Association
National association promoting community-building through involving volunteers in the design, organization and creation of community projects reshaping public space, like murals, playgrounds, parks and public gardens. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Community Garden Performance Project
Project of N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts Office of Community Connections. Students collaborating with N.Y. community gardeners to create address dearth of green open space in N.Y. C. neighborhoods. Directed by Jan Cohen-Cruz.

Cultural Re-Use Research Collaborative
Organization doing practical interdisciplinary work on study and practice of "cultural re-use and re-generation." Based at Columbia College Chicago. Focused on ways objects, traditions, histories, neighborhoods and actions are creatively utilized in novel ways (recycled, reinterpreted, reincorporated, re-purposed, reinvented, repaired). Workshops, colloquia, curriculum development. Projects: Re-Cyclone (Columbia students with FreeStreet Programs) on recycling theater materials; CASCADE 2004/5 (English students with London East Research Institute and Lee Valley Authority) on environmental impact of a London 2012 Olympics.

Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center
Environmental Center at Cuyahoga Vallery National Park with model artist residency program to promote environmental literacy.

DanceArts Vancouver
Performing arts organization with projects for social change called Earth, Fire and Ice. Special focus on teens, environment. Directed by Judith Marcuse.

Earth Celebrations
Preserving the gardens of New York through art and community action.

Ecotopia
Annual gathering of activists from all over Europe involved or interested in environmental and social-justice issues. Every summer since 1989, each year in a different country. Organized by EYFA (European Youth For Action) and by a local grassroots environmental organisation as host organisation. Meetings are "horizontally and self-organized." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies
Online text of book by Sue Spaid, published in conjunction with 2002 exhibit she and Amy Lipton curated at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Explores artist's role in ecological issues and environmental justice.

Edible Estates
Artist Fritz Haeg's "attack on the American front lawn and everything it has come to represent." Three-year project to replace front lawns with vegetabel gardens in nine location across the U.S., starting in Salina, Kansas, in 2005.

El Puente
Community human-rights institution in north Brooklyn. N.Y., that promotes "leadership for peace and justice through the engagement of members (youth and adult) in the arts, education, scientific research, wellness and environmental action." ,Programs: Center for Arts and Culture, Community Health and Environment Institute, three neighborhood Leadership Centers, El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice (high school).

Erica Felder
Eco-artist working on ecosystem knowledge and interface on a personal and community scale.

Fairmount Park Art Association
"First private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning" in U.S.; based in Philadelphia. Pa.

Friends of the Los Angeles River
Organization working to restore L.A.'s urban river to natural state, cofounded by poet Lewis MacAdams.

Ghost Nets and Cities and Oceans of If
Artist Aviva Rahmani's project about the interdependence of coastal cities, oceans and wildlands.

Global Site Performance
Site-specific community choreographer Marylee Hardenbergh's organization, based in Minneapolis, Minn. Large performances with community members, including cancer patients and their caregivers, seniors, homeless men, mothers & daughters. Sites include Mississippi River, rivers, lakes, bridges, boats, large machines. Includes One River Mississippi, performed by hundreds along the river in 2006.

Glocal Forum
International nongovernmental organization devoted to "city-to-city diplomacy." Network of over 100 cities from five continents and public- and private-sector partners that gather annually to promote "glocalization." Art programs in youth-development centers(Ethiopia, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Sierra Leone). Art photo projects to raise awareness of urgent situations. Research on art in peacebuilding activities.

Green Museum
Online museum of environmental art.

Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape
Documentation of a 2005 exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art protraying "the surge of creativity in the contemporary created landscape," presenting new plazas, parks and urban sectors around the world. Three broad themes: Designing the Urban Landscape, Simulations of Nature and New Topographies, The Bad and the Beautiful (reclamation). The show included a symposium (not shown).

Imagine/RENDER
Global/local projects based in Burnsville, N.C. Mission "based on the understanding that creativity involves both the imagination and the ability to make the imagined come to life." Projects: Empty Bowls (far-reaching hunger/pottery project); Garden Projects; seminars/workshops like "extended season gardening" and "social justice through the arts." Founded by Lisa Blackburn and John Hartom.

International Center for Environmental Arts
"Experiment in citizen education" based at The Ark in Berea, Ohio. Three working divisions: Arts, Environment and Humanitarian. Library, traveling exhibits, conferences. Founded by David and Renate Jakupca.

Islands Institute
Online "community of interdisciplinary thinkers concerned with art and survival." Diploma in Interdisciplinary Studies, user-editable wiki, online exhibits/gallery, online conferences, book publishing.

Jeroen van Westen
Dutch eco-artist working on aesthetic problems of urban landscape.

Keepers of the Waters
Eco-artist Betsy Damon's international communications network for people actively engaged in projects that transform human relationship to water.

Kultivator
Experimental cooperative of organic farming (Dyestad Organic Farm) and visual art practice (Art Initiative 16:2) situated in rural village of Dyestad, Öland Island, southeast coast of Sweden. Agri-Culture Shop; Guest Atelier/Project Room; In/Site and Out/Site spaces for meetings, seminars, screenings, installations; Whie cube Made Out of Cow Dung for exhibitions, gatherings. Maria Lindmark, Henric Stigeborn, Malin Lindmark Vrijman, Mathieu Vrijman.

Land
Education and arts project of the East Lancashire Regional Park regeneration initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England. Involves local people in making a positive difference to their own surroundings through creative activity led by professional artists. Woodland walks, landscape features, exhibitions, documentation, recordings, teacher training, parades, storytelling.

Landscape & Art Network
U.K.-based international network of visual and performing artists, craftspeople, academics, landscape architects, architects, journalists, ecologists and environmentalists, with holistic approach to environment and arts.

Lisa's Links: Artists and the Environment
Links to artists who address environmental issues in their work. By Web designer in Georgia.

Littleglobe Inc.
Artist-run nonprofit based in Santa Fe, N.M., dedicated to "collaborative creative projects in new contexts." Integrates expermental creative approaches with projects that foster civic dialogue and individual empowerment toward social and environmental health and healing. Projects with women at Creative Center for women with Cancer; with residents of a sheltered housing project in Ireland for European Union Festival of Culture; with intergenerational group bridign cultural, geographic, generational and eocnomic boundaries with Santa Fe Opera. Founded by Chris Jonas and Molly Sturges, artist in residence for Santa Fe Opera Outreach projects.

Littoral
U.K. nonprofit arts trust with projects in Art & Agriculture, Rural Arts & Culture, Craft & Environment, Ireland/Arts & Trade unions, Deep Practice/Art & Sustainability.

Lynne Hull
Environmental artist "creating Trans-species art and Sculpture for wildlife." Based in Colorado.

Manosegawa River Art Project
"Water Ekiden," created by four communities along the Manosegawa River in Kyshu, Japan, directed by artist Ichi Ikeda. Four water stations constructed to represent the different water situations of each district: to transfer rain water to desert communities; to capture and store spring water; to irrigate rice field with river water; and a canal to carry purified water along a former river bed.

Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts (MECCA)
Center based in Eugene, Ore., that diverts usable materials from landfills into hands of artists and community members. Recycled art supply store; workshops and children's art activities; Open Studio time; classes in charter schools.

Medicine Wheel
Michael Dowling's Boston-based community service project involving hundreds of participants and collaborations with artists, neighborhood groups and community and arts organizations. Includes Medicine Wheel Youth Group, an arts employment program for teens; annual Medicine Wheel installation and vigil; No Man's Land, a reclamation, through gardens, sculpture and pathways, of an abandoned weed lot behind South Boston High School.

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Artist in residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation since 1977 and Percent-for-Art artist for the Fresh Kills lifescape on Staten Island.

NIEHS Public Forum & Toxics Assistance and Translational Theatre Outreach & Education at UMTB Galveston
Community environmental forum theater addressing 21st Century environmental challenges to families and their communities. Program of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Center in Environmental Toxicology at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; focuses on the needs of Gulf Coast Texas communities.

Natural World Museum
“Museum without walls” international organization presenting art through innovative programs to inspire and engage the public in environmental awareness and action. Partnering with the United Nations Environment Programme through the Art for the Environment initiative. Traveling exhibition series, site-specific programs, symposia, interactive multimedia experiences, workshops, cultural performances, programs for children and youth and special community events.

Nature Consortium
Grassroots organization teaching environmental lessons through the creative arts and hands-on conservation projects. Youth Art Program, Urban Forest Restoration Project, Arts-in-Nature Festival. Based in Seattle, Wash.

New England Biolabs Foundation
Private foundation started in 1982 by the founder of New England Biolabs,Inc. to support grassroots organizations working with the environment, social change, the arts, elementary education and science. International grant programs to NGOS to support creative ways to spread their work to more listeners and to make a lasting impact by incorporating the arts and local culture. Special project: Artcorps.

Nine Mile Run Greenway Project
Community dialogue on public space, art and ecology with artists, scientists, historians and planners in context of controversial Nine Mile Run development in slag-filled hills of Pittsburgh's East End.

Nuestras Raíces
Grassroots organization that promotes economic, human and community development in Holyoke, Mass., through projects relating to food, agriculture and the environment. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Nonprofit organizing and education center and organic farm in Northern California’s Sonoma County. Founded in 1994 by artists, biologists, horticulturists, educators and activists. Research, demonstration, education and organizing to develop collaborative, community-based strategies for positive social change and effective environmental stewardship. Programs: Permaculture, Intentional Communities, Arts, Mother Garden Biodiversity, Wildlands Biodiversity, Ecological Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems, WATER Institute and School Gardens.

Panopticons
Arts and regeneration project of East Lancashire Regional Park initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England to erect 21st century landmarks (Panopticons) across East Lancashire 2003-2007, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.

Peninsula Europe
Ecological project by artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrision. Study of the effects of restoring biodiversity of highlands of Europe so rivers can become primary European source of pure water.

Place Matters
Project of City Lore and Municipal Art society to foster the conservation of New York City's historically and culturally significant places. Research, cultural resource surveys, public programs, archive, exhibits, publications. Provides testimony, consultation, and referrals in connection to endangered sites.

Planners Network
Association of professionals, activists, academics and students involved in physical, social, economic and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in political and economic systems. Established in 1975.

Platform
British artist/activists Dan Gretton, James Marriot and Jane Trowell working to help achieve an ecological and democratic society, with a primary focus on London, the Tidal Thames Valley and the oil industry.

Procession of the Species
Annual artistic wildlife pageant in Olympia, Wash.; model for dozens of other Processions worldwide.

Reclamation Art: Restoring and Commemorating Blighted Landscapes
Research project by Hilary Frost-Kumpf discussing a number of environmental art works.

Research in Art, Nature & Environment (RANE)
Research cluster University College Falmouth, Cornwall, England, examining the relationship between the visual arts and ecological thinking. Creative research projects, public lecture series, conferences.

River Network
Supports grassroots river and watershed conservation groups. Programs: Partnerships, National Watershed Health Project, River Watch, Clean Water Act Online Course, Health and Environmental Justice. Includes "River Voices" newsletter issue: "Rivers and the Arts" online. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison
Photography-based artwork about restoring and listening to the earth.

Ruth Wallen
California Eco-artist exploring techniques used to frame environmental issues and myths in society. Work includes a children's forest nature walk.

Sanfte Strukturen
Atelier of Swiss architect Marcel Kalberer. Creates structures of living willow-bundles, adapted from the sumerian reed-constructions in Mesopotamia. Fifty living willow structures, including houses, community gathering places and cathedrals, created by hundreds of community volunteers in Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Austria and Switzerland.

Shanti ko Samjhana - Remembering Peace
Public art installation dedicated to peace and the environment, 2002, in Kathmandu and Pharping, Nepal by Jyoti Duwadi.

Sharon Siskin
Web site of artist Sharon Siskin, showcasing her visual art and tracking her experience in community-based public art projects in the San Francisco Bay Area AIDS support-service community; in the City of Berkeley homeless women and children services community; with San Francisco Recycling & Disposal, Inc; and as founder of Postive Art. She is currently an assistant professor of visual art at University of San Francisco and co-director, with Richard Kamler of Arts Outreach: The Artist as Citizen, which seeks to embed student art practioners into communities to collaboratively engage in community-based art.

Shifting Ground: Art in Rural Contexts
Partnership project combining academic and practice-based research. Includes papers, conference presentations and a full account of the Ground Up program of temporary public art in rural county Clare in Ireland. Partners: Arts Office of Clare County Council and School of Humanities, Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology.

Stone & Water
A South Korean "supplement space ... extending from the realm of art to the scope of life" in An Yang. "Moves towards the new art movement based on social, regional networks, pushing ahead various artistic activities based on local and public interests." Projects: Education, public art, international artists' residencies. + Anyang-River Project, Seoksu-Market Project, Art Education Project. Directed by Chan Eung Park.

Studio Tara
Online "laboratory" of environmental artist Ann Tevy Rosenthal. Attempt "to forge a hybrid practice of art and environmental consciousness." Include curriculum for class on eco-art.

Susan Leibovitz Steinman
Artist who salvages materials from community waste streams to construct public art installations that connect common daily experiences to broader social issues.

Sustainable South Bronx
Organization in South Bronx, N.Y., dedicated to "environmental Justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by the needs of the community." Founded 2001 by artist and Hunts Point resident Majora Carter. Addresses land-use, energy, transportation, water and waste policy and education "in order to advance the environmental and economic rebirth of the South Bronx to inspire solutions in areas like it across the nation and the globe." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Terra Nova
Web site of eco-artist Hermann Prigann (Spain) working to restore lands in Eastern Europe that have been damaged by resource extraction.

The Bottom Line: Promoting safety awareness in fishing communities through community arts
Report presenting details of use of a range of arts-based activities including drama, music, writing and graphics designed to promote safety awareness in three fishing communities in Newfoundland. Written by Michael Murray and Neil Tilley, published by Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2005.

The Power of Culture
Site reviewing art and cultural expressions in conjunction with human rights, education, the environment, emancipation and democratization around the world. By the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. E-mail newsletter, calendar, festivals, links.

The Schumacher Circle
A collective "family" of organizations in the U.K. inspired by E.F. Schumacher ("Small Is Beautiful") and his vision of the connections among things. Their mutual support represents the "joined up thinking" (hybridity) that promotes sustainable development in the ecology movement. Includes the Schumacher Society, Resurgence Magazine, Green Books, Intermediate Technology Development Group, New Ecnomics Foundation, the Soil Association, Centre for Alternative Technology and E.F. Schumacher Society (USA). A Cross-Sector Resource.

The Steel Yard
In Providence, R.I., offering arts and technical training programs, career-oriented training and small-business incubation at the historic Providence Steel and Iron site; 5,612-square-foot industrial shop with foundry, ceramics studio, blacksmithing & welding shops, studio space, outdoor work and exhibition space. Caters to working artists, students and community members, tradespeople, arts educators and entrepreneurs. Partners: Urban Agriculture Unit with mobile greenhouse for local education projects; Industrial Evolution promoting creative re-use of industrial discards; PUENTE, redeveloping environmentally, economically and socially sustainable community assets for communities facing gentrification; NOD (New Object Design) Studio, innovative re-purposers of old factory materials.

Time & Space Limited
Hudson Valley, N.Y. arts organization with programs in all disciplines dedicated to community and activism. Youth projects and Time To Talk discussion series on local political, social and environmental topics that reflect regional and national concerns. Founded 1991 by N.Y. theater artists Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce.

Tostan
African grassroots organization using the arts in nonformal education in local languages (the Community Empowerment Program) to educate poor villagers in Senegal and neighboring countries about development and human rights. Uses modern and traditional African oral techniques, including theater, storytelling, dance, artwork, song, debate, and the sharing of personal experience. "Community-led successes" in six countries in West and East Africa: abandoning female genital cutting, ending child marriage, promoting grassroots democracy, improving maternal and child health, preventing and treating malaria and more. Microcredit program, prison project.

Tricinium Ltd
Community performance group in New Hampshire, directed by composer Lawrence Siegel. Special focus on the environment.

Watershed Art
Project by 14 artists to promote insight and understanding for the Wenatchee River watershed in Washington state, threatened by development.

We, The World
Global network of collaboration among those working for peace, sustainability and transformation. Programs: Public International Events, Interdependence Day, Art for Children's Sake, The International Truth and Reconciliation Hearings, World Communities Interchange, Ethical Impact Reports. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Women Environmental Artists Directory
Offers free listings for women arts professionals concerned with environmental issues. Circulated in hard copy publication nationally with 154 listings from USA, Mexico, Canada and Brazil.

Wormfarm Institute
Programs "reintegrating culture and agriculture" at New Erth WormFarm CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in rural Wisconsin, supporting the idea that "sustainability" includes a vibrant creative community. Artist residencies, Wormworks Youth Outreach Program and Renewal Gardens, Artward Bound, Meyer Oak Grove project, Wormcastings Foundry, community murals, exhibitions, concerts.

Youth Earn & Learn Leadership Program
Pennsylvania community project using public art to connect youth to cultural and natural landscapes where they live, incorporating trail development to reclaim post-industrial landscapes and economies. A collaboration among educators, city officials, civil servants, citizens, students and generous funders. Directed by artist Ann Rosenthal.

ZOO
French site documenting artworks in and about nature, commissioned by communities.

ecosartspace
Supports art that raises environmental awareness.

iLAND
iLAND = interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art, Nature and Dance. Dance research organization with "a fundamental commitment to environmental sustainability as it relates to art and the urban context." Cultivates cross-disciplinary research among artists, environmentalists, scientists, urban designers and other fields. Projects: iLAB (residency program) and iMAP (interdisciplinary Mobile Architecture and Performance). Jennifer Monson, artistic director.