Art

How a literature degree prepared me for a career in conservation

Claire Adler came to Synchronicity Earth with a lifelong interest in conservation, a lot of anxiety about climate change—and a degree in medieval English literature. In the following blog, she writes about how studying our past, from peat bogs to the origins of colonialism, taught her the skills and perspectives she needed to start [...]

By |2023-06-07T13:08:18+00:00June 7th, 2023|Art, Capacity, Conservation Careers, Jobs, Our Team|Comments Off on How a literature degree prepared me for a career in conservation

How can environmental films make an impact?

With public interest in environmental issues higher than it has been for years, it is important to maintain the momentum and build on people’s understanding and motivation to protect our natural world. Nina Seale explores how environmental films have been used to engage people to make a difference for the environment. [...]

By |2023-01-16T14:19:10+00:00February 6th, 2020|Art, Creating Awareness, Culture, Films|Comments Off on How can environmental films make an impact?

What the hell is water?

On the week of Synchronicity Earth’s tenth anniversary, Founder Jessica Sweidan reflects on the cultural shifts toward conservation we have seen in the past decade. Our work on the ground with people, in places where biodiversity is rich and often, the most threatened, is the primary focus of the day [...]

By |2019-11-11T16:40:08+00:00November 11th, 2019|Art, Biophilia, Culture, Deeper Thinking, Synchronicity|Comments Off on What the hell is water?

Fashioning our Future

The Fabric of Life Series was designed to highlight people and projects working to save species and ecosystems threatened by the fashion industry. It aimed to provide  a better understanding of the threats that the current fashion supply chain presents to people and nature, introduce innovative solutions and organisations that are addressing these threats [...]

By |2019-04-24T10:03:29+00:00April 24th, 2019|Art, Biodiversity, Creating Awareness, Fashion|Comments Off on Fashioning our Future

Art at the zoo: working together for species on the EDGE

In July 2018, Synchronicity Earth teamed up with the ZSL EDGE of Existence team at London Zoo to bring in artist Louis Masai to paint a series of 6 giant murals. Louis brought his distinct 'patchwork' style to the project, highlighting some of the weird and wonderful species, which are Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered, [...]

By |2019-01-10T14:28:32+00:00January 10th, 2019|Art, Biodiversity, Collaboration, Conservation, Creating Awareness, Species|Comments Off on Art at the zoo: working together for species on the EDGE

The Many Faces of Conservation

In the media, narratives around nature are - more often than not - shot through with doom and gloom. Disappearing species, deforestation, plastics in the ocean, rivers running dry: reading about the natural world can make us feel helpless and overwhelmed by the scale of the damage we are doing to our planet. But what [...]

By |2019-01-10T14:39:08+00:00December 1st, 2018|Art, Biodiversity, Conservation, Creating Awareness, Fashion, People and Wildlife|Comments Off on The Many Faces of Conservation

A Conversation with street artist ATM

ATM dedicates much of his time to painting gorgeous images of threatened bird species on walls. His work has become a familiar and well-loved feature of many urban streets in cities far and wide. Synchronicity Earth is working with ATM to explore aspects of the relationship between finance and environmental degradation and the disappearance [...]

By |2018-09-25T09:48:17+00:00September 20th, 2018|Art, Biodiversity, Community, Creating Awareness, Education, Finance, Interviews|Comments Off on A Conversation with street artist ATM

The Fabric of Life Series

Synchronicity Earth is proud to be launching its Fabric of Life series in partnership with The Environmental Funders Network, Canopy Planet and The Sustainable Angle. Fabric of Life is a series of collaborative and participatory events to engage and empower participants to support change by providing: • An understanding of the threats that the current fashion [...]

By |2018-09-07T11:14:40+00:00September 7th, 2018|Art, Biodiversity, Biophilia, Ecosystems, Fashion, Species|Comments Off on The Fabric of Life Series

A Work of Art for Conservation

Louis Masai at London Zoo For the past two weeks, our good friend Louis Masai has been painting a series of huge murals in a shadowy, forgotten corner of London Zoo (actually the Nuffield building, home to the Institute of Zoology). Visitors emerging from the underpass will see the grey, brutalist walls transformed, brought [...]

By |2018-07-23T16:12:32+00:00July 20th, 2018|Art, Biodiversity, Collaboration, Conservation Optimism, Creating Awareness, Species|Comments Off on A Work of Art for Conservation

An interview with Clare Shenstone

Clare Shenstone is an English painter who holds a master's degree from the Royal College of Art. Shenstone's portraits exist in some of today's most prominent public and private collections including The National Portrait Gallery and The Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury collection. Shenstone has been awarded the Brian Sinfield Fine Arts Award (2000) [...]

By |2018-08-31T15:26:34+00:00March 20th, 2017|Art, Interviews, Species|0 Comments
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