Arts Sustainability Resources

The Art of the Eco-Mindshift (TED Talk)

The Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

A Wide-Angle View of Fragile Earth (TED Talk)

Gardening as Art Form 

Grow Your Own Clothes (online video)

Haunting Photos of Polar Ice (TED Talk)

Lyrical Nature (TED Talk)

Kagan. 2011. Art and Sustainability: Connecting Patterns for a Culture of Complexity. Transcript Verlag. — This book gives an overview of ecological art over the past forty years and a discussion of art and social change, this volume assesses the potential role of art in a much needed transformation process.

Smith & Margolin. 2006. Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art. Smart Museum of Art. — Beyond Green introduces a new generation of international artists who work at the intersection of sustainable design and contemporary art.

Fletcher, Grose, & Hawkin. 2012. Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change. Laurence King. — This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it.