Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009

Dexter Dalwood, The Calm, 2007

Peter Doig, Green Tree, 1998

SUE THOMAS:

Technobiophilia is

“the innate attraction to life and lifelike processes as they appear in technology“

"My research showed that, even in today’s media-rich environment, we are still pulled towards the natural world. This could mean exploring a forest trail, swimming in the ocean, or just tending your garden. But it could also be a visit to a park in Second Life, gazing an animated waterfall cascading down a screensaver, or ‘liking’ photo of a sunset shared on Facebook. Our urge for contact with nature can restore energy, alleviate mental fatigue, and enhance attention, and it is surprisingly transferable to digital environments."

George Monbiot articles on climate change - http://www.monbiot.com/category/climate-change/

MS GOLF

"To address climate change we need to care more. Only felt care gives us the strength to act for the good and sustains our will to act in caring ways in tough dark times.[i]

Care starts with a determination to face the real picture, and the real picture is that the present dominant culture in the global north – I call it the culture of uncare[ii] – actively undermines our capacity to care. It relentlessly promotes the false belief we can solve problems not in real ways but by rearranging our way of seeing the problems so they no longer have the power to disturb us[iii]. This is omnipotent, magical, thinking, akin to a fairy godmother waving her wand and instantly transforming a difficult situation into a carefree one. It may bring immediate emotional relief, but because it does nothing to address the problem in reality, it causes the problem, and our underlying disturbing feelings about it, to escalate."

Sally Weintrobe

http://www.sallyweintrobe.com/the-new-imagination-a-tale-of-two-carrots/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saola

"Year-round summer comes at the expense of lavish power consumption--one of the world's largest indoor water parks, Miyazaki City, Japan." [Hiroji Kubata/Magnum Photos] 

[Sorry I've forgotten which book I scanned this from, will keep looking]

‘Because attention determines what will or will not appear in consciousness, and because it is also required to make any other mental events—such as remembering, thinking, feeling, and making decisions—happen there, it is useful to think of it as psychic energy. Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work it is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we invest this energy. Memories, thoughts, and feelings are all shaped by how we use it. And it is an energy under our control, to do with as we please; hence, attention is our most important tool in improving the quality of experience.’

Flow, pg. 33 - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

https://aeon.co/essays/learning-to-be-kind-to-yourself-has-remarkable-benefits