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The Environment as a Moral Issue

Duncan Brine — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:41:08 +0000

Exploring Humanity’s Place In the Journey of the Universe by : Yale Environment 360
- …There’s starting to be a sense now that there’s a moral issue about degradation of the environment, that there is something here that’s larger than us, something that’s given birth to all life forms and sustains us. And if we degrade that, it’s to the degradation of future generations. So there’s an inter-generational ethic here. And there’s a new emerging ethic of responsibility to people in other parts of the world who are suffering from our actions with things like climate change, which is affecting people along coastal waters.So where is the moral force going to come from for inter-generational ethics or ethical responsibility for people in other parts of the world? It’s going to come from longer-range thinking, and that’s what the religions can contribute.
- YALE e360

Project Noah — photo document wildlife and share

Duncan Brine — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:18:03 +0000

http://www.projectnoah.org

Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

Become a top spotter!

Grab a photograph of an interesting organism and share it with the community.

Discover thousands of organisms from around the world.
Document nature with your mobile phone.
Posted about this awhile back. Phones are so much more prevalent now. Join Project Noah– make discoveries on the fly.

Photography in the Style of Traditional Chinese Painting

Duncan Brine — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Photography in the Style of Traditional Chinese Painting by Don Hong-Oai | Retronaut

Here, photography jumps into, and, dreamily, clarifies traditional Chinese painting. The effect is startling and unique; the images create a median between a far-off reality and a composed ideal.

This series of images was brought to my attention by a college friend now living in the northwest.
Brine Garden dreaming of Chinese painting

Visit the Brine Garden with ArtEast Open Studio Tour

Julia Brine — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:19:34 +0000

The Brine Garden is celebrating its 21^st anniversary with an exhibit of photographs and watercolors. ArtEast Open Studio Tour visitors are welcome to enjoy the exhibit and stroll through the 6-acre garden.

With his original digital Canon Rebel, landscape designer Duncan Brine makes images that share the design principles of his garden, “how it works.”

Duncan’s wife, Julia Brine, his partner in their landscape design firm, Horticultural Design, Inc., depicts botanical and natural subjects in watercolor and pencil.

Learn more at gardenlarge.com.

FrOGS Annual Great Swamp Celebration and Art Show Returns to Pawling, NY

Julia Brine — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:17:11 +0000

A wonderful community experience:

October 22, 11am-5pm and October 23, 1pm-4pm, at the Frances Ryan Thomas Memorial Center of Christ Church on Quaker Hill in Pawling, NY.

Join the Brines and other FrOGS to celebrate the diverse beauty of our local, majestic wetland. Enjoy work by local artists and artisans, educational displays, food, and activities.

FrOGS (Friends of the Great Swamp) is an active voice for the protection of the Great Swamp, one of the largest freshwater wetlands in New York State.

On Naturalistic Design in “The American Gardener” by Duncan Brine

Julia Brine — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:10:34 +0000

Inviting Nature into Your Garden

If you’re starting a new garden or contemplating a redesign, consider a naturalistic approach, which has renewed relevance in today’s environment.

© 2011 Rob Cardillo

TWENTY YEARS AGO, I left New York City with my future wife to make a garden and a new life in the country, north of the city. There I found inspiration in moving away from the status quo of traditional gardens and toward a career creating naturalistic gardens….

Read the full article

For more information please check out our Brine Garden page

“Gardens of the Hudson Valley” at Rocky Hills Lecture Series

Julia Brine — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:03:51 +0000

The Brine Garden is a chapter of this beautiful new book.

“The line between art and nature has never seemed so blurred as it is in the Brine Garden.”
— Gardens of the Hudson Valley
Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry

Gardens of the Hudson Valley, by co-writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner, is the topic of this spring 2011 Rocky Hills Lecture. Photography of some of the valley’s iconic and historic gardens, both public and private, by Sue Daley and Steve Gross, will be featured.

Rocky Hills, the garden of Henriette and William Suhr, is a Garden Conservancy Preservation Project in Mount Kisco, New York. The Rocky Hills Lecture Series is presented by the Friends of Rocky Hills.

Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Chappaqua Public Library
195 South Greeley Avenue
Chappaqua, New York
Free admission

Charles A. Birnbaum: On Olana and the Upcoming Symposium

Duncan Brine — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:35:08 +0000

Charles A. Birnbaum: The Value of View
- April 16, 2011 symposium at Olana, Framing the Viewshed: The Transformative Power of Art and Landscape in the Hudson Valley.

Frederic Edwin Church: Twilight in the Wilderness (1860) Cleveland Museum of Art