Visual Art Projects (Click on Project Titles to Leap to a Short Description)
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Icelandic Climate Action Summit President Grimsson, one of the foremost country leaders on the clean technolgy energy front, hosted the Climate Action Task Force for the World Economic Forum with the Khemka Foundation
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Blade of the Wheel, Teachings of the Dalai Lama in New York
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Nature's
Reflection: A Mountain Story A Mountain Story visually voices the reflections of the natural world and the views of indigenous people living symbiotically with it on global change issues in mountain regions.
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Human Tracks in Snow's Climate
Dan Fagre, Lee Welling, Greg Pederson, Blaze Rierdon, and Catherine are creating a visual story of a snowflake's journey down the mountain and it's vital role for plants, animals, and people along the way. As the snow regime is changing we expect that the mountain ecosystem and mountain people will be affected in the future.
www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/research/global
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Investigating the Mind Conference The Dalai Lama in Washington D. C.
Co-hosted by the Georgetown University Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the 2005 Conference took place in the DAR Constitution Hall next door to the White House. Tenzin Gyatso, Richard Davidson, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thomas Keating, Matthieu Ricard, and Jack Kornfield (among known others) gathered to discuss the benefit of mindfulness and meditation as a healing art to cultivate compassion and mitigate suffering.
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The Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people and tireless peace worker, visited Switzerland in August 2005. He taught for one week to a crowd of 1,000's on "The Path to Overcome Afflictive Emotions" and the journey toward true inner happiness.
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Man in the Shadow of the Mountain Living
Rightly with the Natural World This exhibit highlights works in the Swiss-French Alps, Italian Dolomite, and Northern Norway that depict (1) Mountain landscapes painted with light and humanity represented as a small, innocuous silhouette. (2) Mountain scenes where signs of human development in the foreground act a barrier between us and the mountain.
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Conservation Photography Symposium World Wilderness Congress 2005 The World Wilderness Congress is the longest standing, public environmental forum. Here at the 8th WWC the International League of Conservation Photographers was born. Catherine served on the planning committee and presented the vision behind Nature's Reflection as part of the symposium.
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