{"id":1058,"date":"2014-10-28T03:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T03:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2014-10-28T03:41:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T03:41:25","slug":"mixing-art-with-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop20\/2014\/10\/28\/mixing-art-with-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixing Art with Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Chasing-Ice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Just a bit ago, James Balog came to Dickinson to receive his Rose-Walters Prize<\/a> for Global Environmental Activism. He came to check out all sectors of environmentalism at our college. I was able to spend lots of quality time with Balog– he\u00a0ate breakfast at my home, the Center for Sustainable Living<\/a>, came to my work at the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring<\/a>, and he stopped by our mosaic class.<\/p>\n

During our interactions, I was struck by how eloquent Balog was when talking about nature.\u00a0When asked about how he felt connected with nature, he talked about how the night connected him with the universe. The sky is deceiving, he said, when the light stops hitting the particles in the atmosphere, you see where we really are. You see that we are actually on a rock, speeding though outer space. You see that we have a small home in a vast universe and we have to protect it. We can’t allow our little space ship to be uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

\"chasing-ice-photo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He said several times that there is no one thing that each person should do to combat climate change, we each have our own talents and should use those talents for the cause. Balog is using his artistic skills\u00a0to raise awareness about increased glacial melting due to climate change. Sometimes, visual evidence can persuade people of the danger in ways charts and figures cannot.<\/p>\n

You don’t need to be an economist or environmental expert to make a difference- if everyone used their own talents in slowing\u00a0climate change, the force would be unstoppable.<\/p>\n

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Just a bit ago, James Balog came to Dickinson to receive his Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism. He came to check out all sectors of environmentalism at our college. I was able to spend lots of quality time with Balog– he\u00a0ate breakfast at my home, the Center for Sustainable Living, came to my work … <\/p>\n

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