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Fish Story Afterlife! 

When the Gulf to Gulf team completed Fish Story Memphis last Spring, I knew we had to do more. The team had calculated that 36% re-greening the earth could mitigate global warming. How to do that? We decided to create a website that could link restoration work, education, the Gulf to Gulf work on line, ecological art and invite our friends to be part of that 36%! Please join us and consider giving feedback on this beta version of the site before it goes public:

dev.gulftogulf.org

Screen shot from the new website

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I am pleased to share a pre-Valentine's Day gift with you, a three minute excerpt from the time lapse film Earth Time, 118 days: March 15, 2011 to July 11, 2011 from the restored Ghost Nets (1990-2000) wetlands in the Gulf of Maine (https://vimeo.com/84840104). The full Earth Time film is seventeen minutes long, beginning seven days after the April 20, 2010 British Petroleum Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and ending December 3rd, 2013, representing three years, seven months and seven days of regeneration from the bioengineering portion of the Ghost Nets wetlands restoration project that was effected April 15, 1997.

I am also pleased to announce the following link to a recent ARTnews article (http://www.artnews.com/2014/02/06/art-and-feminism-wikipedia-editathon-creates-pages-for-women-artists/) that included a reference to my new Wikipedia page: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviva_Rahmani).

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I am pleased to announce the release of 4 new "Gulf to Gulf" webcast events. These are not intended as polished films but rather raw conversations about how we can deal with climate change.

"The Search for Anthropocene Solutions" (https://vimeo.com/84840975)

"Assessing Predictions from 2007" (https://vimeo.com/84718229)

"Leverage 36% Green from Memphis?" (https://vimeo.com/85037535)

"Women and Global Warming" (https://vimeo.com/85042661)

Gulf to Gulf "The Search for Anthropocene Solutions"

A "Gulf to Gulf" performance "The Search for Anthropocene Solutions" January 20th, 2014. Ecological artist Aviva Rahmani: ghostnets.com, with Dr. Eugene Turner,…

"I periodically find myself over-whelmed by how difficult the struggle is, how grief-stricken I am by collateral damage, as climate change takes human life around the globe. At those times, like today in a Noreaster, listening to deaths interspersed with accounts of dissolving starfish and slaughtered elephants in a world inured to loss, I take heart in knowing I am one of many in an army of determined Hope for the earth's future. I am therefore more than pleased when we can contribute sober considerations to that future.- Aviva Rahmani 2-13-14

The following is more information on each of these webcasts:

These conversations are deliberately raw, except for recording corrections. They are opportunities to reflect with the participants, on the implications of each research session. We are proud that since they were initiated in 2009, they have been accessed from over 75 countries. We consider them to be an on-going public think tank to come to terms with the impacts of climate change from Gulf to Gulf, across the planet. Additional information on each webcast and participants:  "The Search for Anthropocene Solutions" January 20th, 2014 with investigative reporter  Dahr, Jamail, artists Erika Blumenthal and Aviva Rahmani, Fisherman Addison Ames, and Dr. Eugene Turner, Distinguished Research Master and Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA:(http://www.oceanography.lsu.edu/index.php/people/faculty/eugene-turner/), Addison Ames a fisherman in the Gulf of Maine and joining from Qatar, ecological artist Erika Blumenfeld (erikablumenfeld.com), and her husband, investigative journalist Dahr Jamail, author of "The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Will-Resist-Soldiers-Afghanistan/dp/1931859884/ref=pd_sim_b_1) and "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq" (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1931859612/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20) (dahrjamail.net/). Participants talk about problems in the Gulf of Mexico due to the Macondo oil spill. "Assessing Predictions from 2007" January 8th, 2014 with Dr. Jim White, Professor of Geological Sciences, Fellow and Director of the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO: (instaar.colorado.edu/people/james-w-c-white/) and Addison Ames a fisherman in the Gulf of Maine. Aviva and Jim discuss their work together since 2007 and predictions they have made about the impacts of climate change. "Leverage 36% Green from Memphis?" November 12th, 2013 with Dr. James White, Professor of Geological Sciences and a Fellow and the Director of the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO: (instaar.colorado.edu/people/james-w-c-white/), Dr. Eugene Turner, Distinguished Research Master and Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA: (http://www.oceanography.lsu.edu/index.php/people/faculty/eugene-turner/) and Virginia McLean President of Friends for our Riverfront in Memphis TN: (friendsforourriverfront.org/). Participants discuss the places and ways in which re-greening the earth may be possible. "Women and Global Warming" October 2nd, 2013 with Dr. Jim White, Professor of Geological Sciences, Fellow and Director of the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO: (instaar.colorado.edu/people/james-w-c-white/) and Chris Cuomo, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Georgia and Curator at eco*art*lab (ecoartlab.wordpress.com/). Participants discuss ways to talk about climate change and how, if possible, to reach the people who can actually make an impact regarding climate change.