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Our Home... Earth

Earth is a planet that contains many intertwined cycles that have been sustained for 3.8 billion years. Sustainability is “the capacity of the earth’s natural systems that support life and human social systems to survive or adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely” (Miller 2018, 4). The three scientific principles of sustainability are solar energy, biodiversity, and chemical cycling. The sun provides solar energy to plants which generates nutrients for the survival of other organisms. Biodiversity is the intricate interaction of different genes, species, ecosystem and ecosystem processes. Chemical cycling is the cycling of chemicals through different species and back to the environment (Miller 2018, 5). These three principles are cycles that depend on one another.

When looking at how the Earth provides for us, we are able to see that there are four types of services which include provisioning services, regulating services, habitat services and cultural services. Provisioning services focus on the material outputs from the ecosystems such as food, raw materials, fresh water, and medicine. Regulating services are the services that the ecosystems provide to us by acting as regulators; this includes air quality, carbon storage, pollination, soil fertility, etcetera. Habitat services are the living spaces provided by the ecosystems for various species. Cultural services are the non-material benefits that people receive which includes aesthetic and psychological benefits (List of Ecosystem Services).

Earth provides us so much but unfortunately its atmosphere, water resources, oceans, soil, forests, and living species are currently suffering (Kendall 1992, para. 3). The atmosphere has an ozone depletion resulting in increased UV absorption. Also, from 1750 to 2003, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide increased from 280 to 375 parts per million (Ecosystems and Human Well-Being 2005, 4). When looking at water resources, there are 80 countries containing 40 percent of the human population that lack freshwater (Kendall 1992, para. 3). Oceans contain toxic chemicals due to overuse of these chemicals for agriculture. Not only that, but “approximately 20% of the world’s coral reefs were lost and an additional 20% degraded in the last several decades of the twentieth century, and approximately 35% of mangrove area was lost during this time” (Ecosystems and Human Well-Being 2005, 2). In regard to soil, 11% of Earth’s soil (land bigger than India and China combined) has been degraded due to agriculture (Kendall 1992, para. 3). There was “more land was converted to cropland in the 30 years after 1950 than in the 150 years between 1700 and 1850” (Ecosystems and Human Well-Being 2005, 2). Tropical rain forests, tropical dry forests, and temperate dry forests are being destroyed for multiple reasons such as deforestation (Kendall 1992, para. 3). There is also a huge decrease of biodiversity and by this rate, only one-third of today’s species will survive in 2100 (Kendall 1992, para. 3). All of these unfortunate activities are due to human activity.

The six major causes of today’s environments are population growth, wasteful and unsustainable resource use, poverty, avoidance of full-cost pricing, increasing isolation from nature, and different environmental worldviews (Miller 2018, 15). In 1930, the human population was roughly 2 billion and in 2015, the population increased at an exponential rate to 7.3 billion people (Miller 2018, 15). The more increase in human population, the more wasteful and unsustainable resources are used. Poverty also causes harm to the environment. People who are poor focus on getting food, water, and heating fuel just to survive. These people are, unfortunately, too desperate to worry about the environment. Then there are companies in which harm the environment when creating products. Most companies are not required to pay when, for example, they have to clear cut in order to obtain the sources. The fifth cause of environmental change is the isolation of people from nature which is phenomenon known as nature-deficit disorder. There are “three out of four people in more-developed countries [that] live in urban areas [do to] increasing use of cell phones, computers, and other electronic” (Miller 2018, 19). The last reason of environmental change is the different environmental worldviews. There are three different views—human-centered environmental worldview, life-centered environmental worldview, and earth-centered environmental worldview. The human-centered concept believes that Earth is a system created solely for human-life. The life-centered concept believes that all species are important. The earth-centered concept believes that humans “are part of, and dependent on, nature, and the earth’s natural capital exists for all species, not just for humans” (Miller 2018, 20). People will act on one of these three views creating conflict.

Although Earth is changing, it is not too late for us to look at alternatives in order to mitigate the change. The Alliance of World Scientists (AWS) is one of many organizations that can help us unite to reduce the drastic change which consists of 15,000 scientists from 175 countries. The purpose of the AWS is “to be a collective international voice of many scientists regarding global climate and environmental trends and how to turn accumulated knowledge into action” (“Alliance of World Scientists” 2017, para. 2). There are six areas that we can interfere in which include energy, short-lived pollutants, nature, food, economy and population (“Alliance of World Scientists” 2017, para. 2). We could start by using alternatives for energy, so we don’t have to produce green-house gases. Then we could recycle more plastics, so they don’t end up accumulating in the ocean. And finally, in order to stabilize population, women need to have control over their own reproductive decisions which include birth control methods (Kendall 1992, para. 15). These are a few methods that would help stabilize the drastic change of Earth’s condition.

There are people that believe, it is not our job to save the world. Many argue that Earth has existed for 3.8 billion years, and during these years, Earth has experienced catastrophic events without human input. These events include “gigantic meteorite impacts, ice ages lasting millions of years, long warming periods that melted land-based ice and raised sea levels by hundreds of feet, and five mass extinctions—each wiping out 60–95% of the world’s species” (Miller 2018, 4). Thus, the planet Earth will survive no matter how much we pollute it, but some people are missing the big picture. The Earth can survive without people, but people cannot survive without the Earth! We must keep in mind that “our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know” (Kendall 1992, para. 2). I, myself, did not notice how much of a parasite we can be until I did the Ecological Footprint Quiz. If everyone lived like I do, we would need 3.6 Earths to survive in a way that would not alter Earth’s conditions. When looking at the Ecological footprint per country, I was able to see that the problem originates from developed countries. Ecological deficit is when the ecological footprint per person is larger than the biocapacity per person. If it’s the other way around, this is considered ecological reserve. United States is considered to be an ecological deficit country. When taking the sum of all the countries, the world is ecologically deficit (Miller 2018, 27). These countries know that humanity is in danger, so why is there no drastic effort to change?

Figure 1. Human Footprint Index: Doesn’t this image look like a body covered in disease? Well, actually, this image depicts the human ecological footprint which has an impact of about 83% of Earth’s land (Miller 2018, 12)

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Works Cited

“Alliance of World Scientists.” Home Page | World Scientists' Warning to Humanity. Accessed January 27, 2020. https://scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/.

“Annex 2: What Are Ecosystem Services.” UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Synthesis: a Report of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Washington, D.C: Island, 2005.

Kendall, Henry W. “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” A Distant Light, 2000, 198–201. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8507-1_19.

Miller, G. Tyler, and Scott Spoolman. Living in the Environment. Boston, MA: National Geographic Learning/Cengage Learning, 2018.

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How to lower your travel carbon footprint to avoid

Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg recently completed a two-week sailing trip from her home in Sweden to New York, instead of flying, for the United Nations Climate Action Summit.

The Climate Action Summit is coming up on September 23, with the Youth Climate Summit on the 21st. 16-year-old Thunberg arrived at a marina in Lower Manhattan on August 28, after sailing across the Atlantic Ocean on an emission-free racing yacht. She held a news conference a few minutes later, where she said she hopes to spread awareness among Americans about what she calls "the climate crisis."

Photo courtesy of @GretaThunberg Thunberg is the current face of “flygskam,” or “flight shame,” a growing movement in Europe and North America to reduce air travel in order to lessen impact on the environment. Burning jet fuel releases greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere and oceans, which causes global temperatures to rise. The U.S. ranks the highest in the world in the amount of emissions it emits through air travel, with a total of 151.1 million tons of carbon dioxide, a 10-percent increase over 2017. Globally it is positioned above China and the UK.*

The UN sent out one boat for each of the 17 sustainable development goals to greet Greta Thunberg and her crew as they sailed into Manhattan.

The issue of the negative impact of air travel on the environment is one of the top concerns for many frequent travelers.

Worldwide, flights produced 895 million tons of CO2 in 2018, while humans produced over 42 billion tons, said the Air Transport Action Group. Overall, the aviation industry is responsible for around 2 percent of human-made carbon dioxide emissions, according to the International Air Transport Association. Those emissions can have a devastating impact on our environment. So, what is a traveler to do? It's not too late to improve the situation. LuggageHero, a global network of luggage storage sites in 30 major cities across Europe and North America, provided some tips to lower your carbon footprint while still getting the most out of your travels. Remember: Every bit helps!

Avoid short hops

For instance, if you are traveling from Paris to London and choose road transportation over flying, you’ll cut your carbon dioxide emissions by more than half. Your portion of CO2 emissions on a flight between the two cities would total 122.1 kilograms, while driving would be 48.4 kilograms and train travel 14.4.** Energy-wise, trips below 965 kilometers (600 miles) are said to be more efficient with a train, bus or driving.

Say yes to nonstop

Flying nonstop saves a lot of energy because takeoffs and ascent require significantly more energy than cruising at altitude. In fact, around 25 percent of the fuel used is consumed during takeoff. Once at cruising altitude, the plane becomes much more fuel-efficient. Think of it this way: changing planes is double the trouble.

But also avoid long flights

For fuel efficiency, the best flight length is about 3,000 miles (4,828 kilometers). Longer flights need more fuel, which makes the aircraft heavier and less efficient, thereby increasing its carbon footprint per mile.

Or just slow it down

Take fewer flights and stay longer on the ones you do take. Side benefit: You get to know a place better. Isn’t that what travel is all about?

The Zurich Airport

Use green airports when possible

What makes an airport green? Things like their recycling programs, sustainable building design, reduction of noise pollution and emissions control for airport vehicles. Airports recognized for their environmental efforts include Boston Logan International Airport, Zurich Airport, and East Midlands Airport in England.

Choose the economy section

The more people on a plane, the more efficient the energy use becomes. You can pack more passengers into coach, while business and first class give fliers more space, so thereby hold fewer bodies. Upgraded sections also have heavier seats, allow more luggage and use more service items.

Pack lighter

The more your baggage weighs, the more the plane has to carry and the less energy efficient it is. So keep your stuff to a minimum, which is more convenient anyway.

Refuse or reuse plastic

Don’t use plastic when you’re in the airport or on the flight. That includes straws, stirrers and cups. If you do take a plastic cup on the flight, reuse it. You could even bring your own meal, foregoing all the plastic parts to an airline meal.

Plastic is a substance the earth cannot digest

Patronize travel companies that offset carbon

Some tour providers routinely offset carbon. Look for companies that mitigate both the impact from their travelers and their own business operations.

Nonprofit carbon offset programs allow you to purchase a carbon offset equivalent to how much carbon your flight costs. In this way, you pay money into a project that attempts to save energy and emissions elsewhere. Examples are planting trees and subsidizing fuel-efficient cook stoves in Africa. Some airlines also partner with carbon offset programs. When choosing a plan, you’ll want to research the sponsor and where your money is being spent.

Forego flying for a year

Maja Rosén from Sweden is encouraging people to make a pledge to give up flying for one year – 2020. Last year she founded the group We Stay on the Ground to recruit fellow activists. Anyone can join, but a national pledge won’t become official until 100,000 in a country have signed up. Active campaigns are ongoing in Sweden, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany and Canada.

The folks behind the "We stay on the ground" movement

Stay grounded

You can jump totally in by not flying at all, like Greta and others have. Instead, take alternative transportation, such as trains, buses, boats, bicycles and automobiles (even better if you carpool).

Join the movement

Regardless of whether you boycott flying all together, change a few personal habits or make no changes at all, you can still help by advocating for the environment. That could include supporting research and development of greener aviation, pushing for more energy-efficient public transportation and voting for local and national leaders who prioritize climate change. Every bit helps! DATA SOURCES * Amadeus IT Group in combination with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) emission factors, compiled by Griffith University Institute for Tourism and interpreted by LuggageHero.** EcoPassenger, a calculation tool provided by International Railways Union. Calculations for car travel uses 1.5 passengers, for train travel an average load factor, and for airplanes a European average utilization, including arrival and departure and taxing on the airfield. ** EcoPassenger, a calculation tool provided by International Railways Union. Calculations for car travel uses 1.5 passengers, for train travel an average load factor, and for airplanes a European average utilization, including arrival and departure and taxing on the airfield. Read the full article

#airtravel #carbonfootprint #carbonoffsets #climatechange #environment #flightshame #flights #flygskam #flying #GretaThunberg #sustainability #UnitedNationsClimateActionSummit

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Clean House to Survive?

Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements

With storage spaces filled with works that may never be shown, some museums are rethinking the way they collect art, and at least one is ranking what it owns.

By ROBIN POGREBIN - MARCH 10, 2019

Paintings line the basement storage space at The Indianapolis Museum of Art, which has graded its entire collection to help determine what art it may want to sell or transfer to another institution. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields; Lyndon French for The New York Times

Fueled by philanthropic zeal, lucrative tax deductions and the prestige of seeing their works in esteemed settings, wealthy art owners have for decades given museums everything from their Rembrandts to their bedroom slippers.

It all had to go somewhere. So now, many American museums are bulging with stuff — so much stuff that some house thousands of objects that have never been displayed but are preserved, at considerable cost, in climate-controlled storage spaces.

At the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: ashtrays, cocktail napkins, wine glasses. At the Indianapolis

Art Museum: doilies, neckties and women’s underwear.

In storage at the Brooklyn Museum: a roomful of home décor textiles, a full-size Rockefeller Center elevator and a trove of fake old master paintings the museum is barred from unloading.

Some collections have grown tenfold in the past 50 years. Most museums display only a fraction of the works they own, in large part because so many are prints and drawings that can only sparingly be shown because of light sensitivity.

“There is this inevitable march where you have to build more storage, more storage, more storage,” said Charles L. Venable, the director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. “I don’t think it’s sustainable.”

His museum was so jammed with undisplayed artwork that it was about to spend about $14 million to double its storage space until he abruptly canceled the plan.

Instead, it embarked on an ambitious effort to rank each of the 54,000 items in its collection with letter grades. Twenty percent of the items received a D, making them ripe to be sold or given to another institution.

Not long ago, such ratings would have struck many in the museum world as crass. But Mr. Venable is now at the vanguard of a growing number of museum directors who are taking a hard look at how much they have and how they collect art because they fear a history of voracious stockpiling and the pressure to acquire still more is creating a crisis for American museums.

“It doesn’t benefit anyone when there are thousands, if not millions, of works of art that are languishing in storage,” said Glenn D. Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art. “There is a huge capital cost that has a drag on operations. But more importantly, we would be far better off allowing others to have those works of art who might enjoy them.”

MoMA regularly culls its collection and in 2017 sold off a major Léger to the Houston art museum. Yet, it too is in the midst of yet another costly renovation (price tag $400 million) to be able to exhibit more of its ever growing collection.

Part of the problem is that acquiring new things is far easier, and more glamorous, than getting rid of old ones. Deaccessioning, the formal term for disposing of an art object, is a careful, cumbersome process, requiring several levels of curatorial, administrative and board approval. Museum directors who try to clean out their basements often confront restrictive donor agreements and industry guidelines that treat collections as public trusts.

Collections have ballooned in the past 50 years.

Some major American museums have seen the size of their collections soar. Even the oldest institutions often saw their holdings double or triple in number

Percent change in collection size, 1970 to present

Brooklyn Museum...3%

MFA Boston...................75%

Philadelphia Museum of Art......114%

Denver Art Museum........................251%

Indianapolis Museum of Art..................265%

Metropolitan Museum of Art................... 329%

Whitney Museum................................................692%

Dallas Museum of Art...............................................818%

SF MoMA......................................................................1014%

MFA Houstob..............................................................................1438%

100% 300 500 700 900 1,100 1,300

Major museums are only able to display a small portion of their collection.

Number of objects on display at a given time:

300,000 objects

.........................Dallas Museum of Art

..................................Whitney Museum

600,000................................... SF MoMA

......................................................Indianapolis Museum of Art

..............................................................MFA Houston

900,000...........................................................Denver Art Museum

...................................................................................Brooklyn Museum

..........................................................................Philadelphia Museum of Art

1,200,000.................................................................................MFA Boston

1,500,000..........................................................Metropolitan Museum of Art

The percentage on display is affected by space constraints, but also by how much of a collection is devoted to works on paper, which cannot be shown for long due to light sensitivity. The Met collection is particularly weighted toward works on paper, but its percentage on display, about 4 percent, is in rough parity with other museums on the list.

And many still hold the view that a wholesale parting with objects can be risky. Overlooked art comes back in style. Forgotten treasures turn up. Many pieces, they argue, should be retained for scholars, regardless of how often they go on public view. And much art still needs to be acquired as museums respond to the soaring popularity of contemporary art and aim to integrate more work by women and artists of color.

“People can’t understand why museums have more than they can show at any given time,” said the critic and curator Robert Storr. “But preserving the best of the past — no matter how unpopular it may temporarily become — is the purpose of museums. They should protect their holdings; they shouldn’t jettison them for short-term gains or savings.”

But holding on to it all has consequences, most notably the pressure to build new exhibition wings. Some wealthy collectors take matters into their own hands, creating private museums to retain control of what goes on view.

Eli Broad, the philanthropist, said one reason he created his own Los Angeles museum, the Broad, was to ensure a proper display of his impressive collection of modern and contemporary art.

“I don’t see how giving art to museums that are not prepared to show a fair amount of it makes any sense,” Mr. Broad said. “Of the 2,000 works in our collection, I got the sense they would show 1 or 2 percent of the work and the rest would go in storage.”

Generous to a Fault?

The current museum storage predicament has its roots in gifts like Adelaide Milton de Groot’s to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Upon her death at 91 in 1967, she did not give just a few paintings from her collection. She gave all of them — more than 200.

Thomas Hoving, then director of the Met, recalled in his 1993 book, “Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” that he was “shocked” to learn from his No. 2, Theodore Rousseau, that “only half a dozen paintings” were first-rate.

“Many of the other pictures were not even worth showing,” he wrote. Upset, Mr. Hoving said he demanded an answer from Rousseau, “What were we going to do with them?”

“Put them in storage or sell them was his answer,” he added.

Adelaide Milton de Groot, who died in 1967, arranged in her will to leave more than 200 paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sidney J Waintrob; Budd Studio

Museums have always had to be diplomatic with important collectors. With acquisition budgets so limited, they have long depended on donors’ largess.

“Museums were accepting with less criticality when collections were smaller,” said James Rondeau, director of the Art Institute of Chicago. “We took 12 when we might not have even taken one.”

Some donors were able to dictate terms.

In 1985, when the philanthropist Wendy Reves donated more than 1,400 works from the collection of her late husband Emery Reves to the Dallas Museum of Art, she required that it re-create five rooms from their villa in the South of France — including furnishings from the décor of the home’s original owner Coco Chanel. Among the accouterments in the display: Mrs. Reves’ slippers beside the bed.

Four years ago, Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson gave the Art Institute 42 contemporary works worth an estimated $400 million. It was the largest gift of art in the museum’s history and came with a stipulation: All the works have to be on display for the next 50 years.

“I got the deal of a lifetime,” Mr. Edlis said in an interview.

In the case of Ms. de Groot’s large gift to the Met, the museum sold some 50 pieces, and ended up with much public criticism and an inquiry by the Attorney General’s office as to whether the Met had trampled on the intent of Ms. de Groot’s will.

Two years later, Mr. Hoving agreed to accept the collection of the investment banker Robert Lehman — at 2,600 works, then the largest art donation in the Met’s history. Though some art critics questioned its quality, the Met built a wing to display the collection, with rooms that re-created the Lehman family residence.

Under the Lehman Foundation’s agreement with the Met, the collection will remain in the museum forever.

Today the Met’s collection tops 1.5 million items, many of them stored in 105,000 square feet of on-site storage, the equivalent of almost two football fields, and four off-site locations in New York and New Jersey.

Max Hollein, director of the Met, said the collection’s size reflects that the museum’s mission extends beyond display. “We also preserve the cultural heritage of humankind,” he said, but added that going forward, “Our focus at the Met is not going to be on what we still need but on what we have and how we display it.”

As Mr. Hoving found out, deaccessioning can sometimes be a dirty word. A routine practice, it is nonetheless often fraught with controversy. Won’t donors be insulted when museums re-gift or sell their donated work? Aren’t such gifts, underwritten by taxpayers, part of the public trust?

The Berkshire Museum Museum drew protests when it announced a plan to sell art from its collection in 2017. Gillian Jones/The Berkshire Eagle, via Associated Press

Moreover, the Association of Museum Directors has strict guidelines dictating that proceeds from such sales can only be used to acquire more work, not to cover operating costs like staff salaries. Institutions that have violated these rules in the name of financial survival — including New York’s National Academy of Design, the Delaware Art Museum and the Berkshire Museum— have been labeled pariahs, in some cases penalized by the refusal of other institutions to lend works.

“If an institution is faced with an existential threat, isn’t it better for the institution to survive with some works of art than no works of art?” countered Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, defending the Shelburne Museum in Vermont’s decision to sell $25 million worth of art in 1996. Mr. Tinterow said his museum has gradually been getting rid of the excess in its two house collections of decorative arts — including those ashtrays and stemware.

Anne Pasternak, the director of the Brooklyn Museum, said there is increasing discussion these days about revisiting the strictures of deaccessioning policies. But she acknowledged “there is a lot of fear around this conversation.”

From Dusty Attic to Modern Museum

From the Brooklyn Museum’s first days, storage was an issue. When its Beaux-Arts building on Eastern Parkway was built in 1893, the museum was focused on amassing enough art to put on view, not where to keep it.

“They took just about anything that was offered and thought maybe someday it will be useful,” said Kevin Stayton, the museum’s chief curator emeritus.

In those early years, random spaces were recruited to house things. “You had storerooms and you threw work in it,” Ms. Pasternak said.

Some donors literally dropped their collections at the door. One art dealer, Ivan C. Karp, persuaded the museum, starting in the 1950s, to take some 400 fragments of ornate terra cotta and stone mythological creatures that he and friends had salvaged from demolition sites. They were stored in the museum’s backyard. Some were used for a sculpture garden. Others ended up in a parking lot.

Objects stored in remote areas came to be forgotten. Such was the case about 20 years ago, when curators found an old slab of marble leaning against a back storage wall. It was a delicately carved 1860s relief by an important self-taught sculptor, Margaret Foley.

Arnold Lehman, who led the museum from 1997 to 2015, recalled confronting the great morass, including more than 23,000 items of American and European clothing and accessories, an impressive but fragile collection that was costly to maintain.

One advancement in storage has been to make it visible to the public as done here in the Brooklyn Museum's Luce Center for American Art. Andrea Mohin/The New York Times

“I kept saying that we weren’t equipped to deal with this properly,” Mr. Lehman said.

He set out to consolidate and now the museum is that rare art institution that holds fewer items today than it did 10 years ago.

Not that it was easy.

Some complained when Mr. Lehman transferred some 1,500 terra-cotta pieces to a foundation in St. Louis. There was grumbling when he sent the museum’s huge trove of costumes to the Met in 2008 under a deal that gave Brooklyn continuing access, and its name on the collection.

Mr. Lehman was never able to unload some of the 926 items that were bequested by Col. Michael Friedsam, once president of the department store B. Altman, who died in 1932.

A quarter of the gifts, including old master paintings, turned out to be fake, misattributed or of poor quality. The museum still stores and cares for them because the courts have ruled that, under the colonel’s will, deaccessioning requires permission from his executors. The last of them died in 1962.

The Brooklyn Museum storage facilities are updated today. Paintings hang on special racks; objects returning from loan are temporarily isolated, lest they be carrying pests; and an open storage area allows visitors to see items that would otherwise be out of view.

But Ms. Pasternak, who took over as director in 2016, is continuing to look at “next steps” regarding storage. One focus: a room that holds thousands of textiles, European tapestries and lace, and some furniture.

She would like to turn it into a gallery for African art. The cost-benefit analysis, she said, seems straightforward: “A permanent home for an African art gallery versus storing something that we’ve never shown.”

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has deaccessioned more than 4,600 works since beginning a major study of its collection in 2011. Lyndon French for The New York Times

On the Front Lines: Indianapolis

If you want to start an argument, there are few better ways than assigning something a grade.

So Mr. Venable created quite a stir by deciding to rank the entire collection of his Indianapolis museum.

Founded in 1883, the museum shows 8 to 10 percent of its collection at any one time. The ranking began in 2011 when a Mellon Foundation grant paid for outside experts to spend six years reviewing the collection.

His own staff then built on that work. By the end every item had a grade: “A being a masterpiece,” Mr. Venable said, “and D being maybe onetime in the distant past this was a valuable object for us but we probably shouldn’t hang on to that.”

The assessment measured a work’s aesthetic qualities, its physical condition and whether the museum perhaps had better examples of the genre. Mr. Venable decided not to keep art purely for study, asking. “How many scholars actually look at those things on an annual basis?”

Now comes the tough part — getting rid of the works through sale or transfer to another institution. What may be a D painting to a large, encyclopedic museum, which has several by that artist, may be an A to a smaller institution, which has none.

Charles L. Venable, director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. Lyndon French for The New York Times

The storage spaces at Indianapolis. The conservation of art requires an understanding of aesthetics, logistics, the science of materials and how they react over time and to other substances. Lyndon French for The New York Times

Since 2011, the Indianapolis museum has deaccessioned 4,615 objects, with the vast majority of those having been sold. Some 124 works have been transferred to other institutions, including art glass from the Marilyn and Eugene Glick Collection.

The museum decided that only some of the collection’s 250 pieces were worth keeping, so Mr. Venable approached the Glicks' grandson-in-law, David Barrett — a museum trustee — about transferring some to another institution.

The Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., soon received 60 pieces from Indianapolis.

That kind of flexibility is essential to museum survival going forward, Mr. Venable said.

”What is the balance between almost obsessively art collecting and spending vast amounts of resources on it?” he said. “Are we really just addicts collecting objects that our curators bring in generation after generation?”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/10/arts/museum-art-quiz.html

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Collections have ballooned in the past 50 years.

Some major American museums have seen the size of their collections soar. Even the oldest institutions often saw their holdings double or triple in number

Percent change in collection size, 1970 to present

Brooklyn Museum...3%

MFA Boston...................75%

Philadelphia Museum of Art......114%

Denver Art Museum........................251%

Indianapolis Museum of Art..................265%

Metropolitan Museum of Art................... 329%

Whitney Museum................................................692%

Dallas Museum of Art...............................................818%

SF MoMA......................................................................1014%

MFA Houstob..............................................................................1438%

100% 300 500 700 900 1,100 1,300

Major museums are only able to display a small portion of their collection.

Number of objects on display at a given time

300,000 objects

.........................Dallas Museum of Art

..................................Whitney Museum

600,000................................... SF MoMA

......................................................Indianapolis Museum of Art

..............................................................MFA Houston

900,000...........................................................Denver Art Museum

...................................................................................Brooklyn Museum

...............................................................Philadelphia Museum of Art

1,200,000..................................................................MFA Boston

1,500,000..........................................................Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has ranked its collection with letter grades to determine which works may be a drain on resources. Which one do you think got an A?

Grade: C Cour d'une Ferme Maurice de Vlaminck c. 1926

Grade: A Jimson Weed Georgia O’Keeffe 1936

Grade: B The Flight into Egypt Marc Chagall 1943-44

Grade: D Seascape A follower of Willem van de Velde II 17th century

Right!

The Chagall won praise for its “whimsy and pathos,” but curators celebrated “Jimson Weed,” calling it O’Keefe’s “largest and most ambitious floral work.” They noted, “The use of three blooms separates it in quality and importance among its peers of similar composition and subject.” “Seascape” earned its low grade in part because of a large hole in the canvas but also because it’s not by Velde, but a “follower of” Velde. In sum, a curator wrote: “Extremely poor condition. Poor quality painting.”

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/10/arts/museum-art-quiz.html

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Cheap Storage Boston | Best Place to Store Your Luggage

In addition to the standard tasks of packing all your belongings, getting ready to leave your children and pets, and moving everything - and all - to your new home, there can be many unexpected challenges during a move. One of the most common obstacles is that you will not be able to move to your new destination as soon as you guess.

Although you can move your family to a hotel or stay with loved ones while you wait for the date of your new move, what are you going to do with all the stuff you've painstakingly packed.

With Boston Space Storage, your goods will be safe and secure in our state-of-the-art storage facilities. When the time comes to finish your move, you can easily take out your belongings, and help move them to your new home.

Finding the Best Storage in Boston, MA

If you are not sure what size storage space you need, Boston Space Storage has a useful link- "Storage Supply" - so you can guess what a particular storage unit can hold. For example, a 5x5 unit can hold a dresser, a small mattress set, and a few boxes. Units can be as large as 10x30, which allows you to carry more (or larger) objects, which is especially helpful if you're in the middle of a move.

Climate-Controlled Units:

As many people on the east coast know, winters are cold, and summers are humid and hot. During the long-term use of Boston space storage, you are putting your items at risk of damage due to changes in temperature and humidity. Fortunately, many storage facilities in Boston are listed on Storage.com that offer climate-controlled units. Climate-controlled units allow you to rest easy and know that your items are safe no matter what happens outside your storage unit.

Why Boston Space Storage is the Ideal Option for You?

Easy, Fast, Budget-friendly

When using Boston Space Storage in Boston, MA, you pay a reduced amount with a one-time handling fee. No worries, we always keep your budget in mind - you never pay more (handling fees included)

Handling charges include security seals and insurance with coverage for each bag. There are no other hidden fees.

You will only pay for the time when you actually store your goods. If you don't show up for your booking, then you don't pay for anything.

Book online and get an estimated bid – no extra charge.

How to Contact?

When you need to store your valuables in a facility, there is no better place to do this in the greater Boston area than Boston Space Storage. Please request a free quote online today or call our representatives at (617) 470-9950. We look forward to hearing from you and can help you in any way during your move.

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Tips To Store Leftover Paint Products At Home

In most instances, people end up overestimating the amount of paint needed for a specific job. You may end up with one or more cans of paint as leftovers. What can you do with it? It isn’t something you can return to the dealer, and you shouldn’t throw it away, either. You have to store it because you may need it sooner or later for touch-ups. Here are a couple of ideas from the specialists of Interior Painting Boston MA suggests a few paint storage guidelines.

Climate-controlled zone

Usually, folks keep excess paint in their garden shed or garage. These areas are good enough for storing a lot of things, but they aren’t suitable for storing paint products. They become unstable when the temperature rises or falls too much. That’s why you should store paint inside a climate-controlled area within your house, such as a cabinet or a closet. If the location is dark, dry, and cool, it should do the trick.

Use jars or cans

Gallon buckets are reliable for transporting paint from the store to your house. However, if you leave the product inside the bucket, it’ll reduce its overall lifespan. Besides, why would you want to deal with half-empty buckets of paint? These buckets aren’t exactly small. Instead of leaving leftover paint inside it, simply transfer the paint into a small container, such as a jar. Don’t forget to clean it first.

Shelf life

Paint products have exclusive shelf lives. House Painters Near Me say that chalk-based paint will survive one to five years. Latex paint, on the other hand, should remain usable for two to ten years. Milk paint, however, doesn’t last longer than a week. Only oil-based acrylic products will be usable for fifteen years.

Disposal

If you have to throw excess paint away because of expiry, you shouldn’t make the mistake of dumping the container in the trash can. Instead, put some sand inside the can. It’ll soak up the paint. Then, take the lump direct to your town’s waste collection center.

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What can be done to make cannabis packaging more environmentally friendly?

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Cannabis packaging materials should be cutting-edge. Here's how this market can make packaging choices that are more environmentally friendly.

Plastics can be reused for cannabis packaging.

Plastic containers are frequently used for packaging cannabis. Many cannabis businesses would prefer to remedy this issue.

Calyx, a Boston-based business that manufactures environmentally friendly packaging, is revising its mind on plastic. "We take the concept of reducing, reuse, recycle' very seriously," says Calyx marketing manager Anneliese Brosch of the company's procedure.

They are emphasizing how businesses may repurpose plastic in product packaging. The idea is to keep it moving so that it does not end up in landfills.

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stairhoppermovers · 3 years

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Most affordable movers for local and long distance moves

Moving, whether it is local, long distance or interstate, is always a hectic, cumbersome and challenging procedure especially when you attempt to do all the packing and shifting your entire household or office assets yourself.

In such conditions, it is necessary to engage an efficient mover for your move. The process of your moving begins with search for one of the best and cheap movers to provide you the desired moving assistance.

Once you engage one of the most efficient yet cheap local movers, you are relieved of all the stress of packing and moving.

Services offered by cheap local or interstate movers

Almost every moving companies offer moving services for local, long distance Movers Boston or interstate moves for:

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All professional movers have an experienced, professionally trained and efficient team for systematic:

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Warehousing – for receiving and distribution

Designer and architectural services

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In addition to above the moving service providers also keep adequate arrangement for safe moving of:

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Antiques

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Interstate moving requirements

When it comes to interstate moving, it is not simply moving one state to another.

Interstate moving involves bringing items across the border even if the goods are crossing back into their home state i.e. state of origin as explained and governed by the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) rules and regulations.

Interstate moving of goods differs from local moving and is far more complicated due to the federal and state regulations and hence requires additional permitting from authorities.

Also, an interstate moving necessitates different packing procedures so as to protect your delicate valuables from getting damaged due to jerks during transit.

Cost of interstate moving

Although interstate moves generally cost more due to special packing materials and additional permitting needed yet there are many good, reliable cheap interstate movers that can provide you trustworthy and cheap interstate moving.

The cost of interstate moving is relatively more compared to local moving and depends upon:

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Marcus & Millichap Arranges the Sale of a Storage Development Opportunity

HUBBARDSTON, MA – Marcus & Millichap announced the sale of Hubbardston, Massachusetts Storage Opportunity, a proposed self-storage development that is slated for 47,800 net rentable square feet of storage in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, according to Grant Fitzgerald, Regional Manager of the firm’s Columbus office.

Nathan Coe, Brett R. Hatcher and Gabriel Coe, investment specialists in Marcus & Millichap’s Columbus office, had the exclusive listing to market the property on behalf of the seller and they also secured the buyer for the development. John Horowitz, Massachusetts Broker of Record, assisted in closing this transaction.

“I am pleased to announce the sale of the entitled self-storage development land in Hubbardston, Massachusetts,” said Nathan Coe, the lead broker involved in the transaction. “We had several competitive offers, many over list price, and closed well above list price. The list to close timeline was less than 80 days which is extremely fast for a development deal. I am very excited for the seller on the sale. The buyer acquired a tremendous future storage development site that I look forward to seeing as it comes to fruition.”

The Hubbardston, Massachusetts Storage Opportunity is located in Hubbardston, Massachusetts which is about 45 miles west of Boston. This property proposes 288 non-climate controlled units totaling 47,800 net rentable square feet.

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bostonspacestorage · 3 years

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Dezeen's top 10 carbon-neutral buildings of 2020

For our 2020 review, we take a look at 10 of the best examples of carbon-neutral design, including zero-carbon and carbon-negative buildings, such as a floating off-grid office and a house made of hempcrete.

Hotel Bauhofstrasse, Germany, by Von M

The snow-white, shingle-clad Hotel Bauhofstrasse in Ludwigsburg was built to be the first carbon-neutral building in the town.

Though its base is made of concrete, the building was constructed from wooden modules, which Von M claims off-set the use of the carbon-intense concrete.

"In total, 440 cubic metres of wood were used, thus permanently extracting a total of 880 tons of CO2 through storage and substitution effects," the studio said.

Find out more about Hotel Bauhofstrasse ›

The Floating Office Rotterdam, Holland, by Powerhouse Company

Dutch studio Powerhouse Company will moor its off-grid Floating Office, which will be carbon-neutral and self-sufficient, on the waters of the Maas River in Rotterdam.

The timber building will have solar panels and a water-based heat-exchange system and was designed to be an example of "climate-resilient office design".

Find out more about the Floating Office ›

Paradise, UK, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios' design for a six-storey cross-laminated timber (CLT) office, Paradise, is set to be carbon-neutral. The studio was one of the founding signatories of climate change action group Architects Declare and is focusing on creating more sustainable architecture.

The architects calculated that the sequestered carbon in the timber makes up for the carbon emissions generated during the construction process and the first 60 years of the building's operation.

Find out more about Paradise ›

Powerhouse Telemark, Norway, by Snøhetta

Snøhetta's carbon-negative Powerhouse Telemark office in Norway has a large photovoltaic canopy covering its roof and a south-facing facade that means it will produce more energy than it will consume during its lifespan.

It is the studio's fourth Powerhouse building, all of which were designed in response to the climate emergency and with the aim of offering a "sustainable model for the future of workspaces".

Find out more about Powerhouse Telemark ›

A-Block Building Expansion, Canada, by Dialog

Dialog's design for the A-Block Building Expansion, which will be added to an existing building at Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology, will be made from CLT and have solar panels to produce energy to offset annual carbon emissions.

According to the architecture studio, it will be Canada's "first-ever mass timber, net-zero carbon, higher-education facility".

Find out more about A-Block Building Expansion ›

Passivhaus council housing, UK, by Mikhail Riches

York in the UK is set to receive the country's largest Passivhaus and net-zero carbon housing scheme. Designed by architecture studio Mikhail Riches for the City of York Council's Housing Delivery Programme.

The studio's goal was to provide 600 affordable homes with low-energy bills that also encourage residents to live low-carbon lifestyles.

Find out more about Passivhaus council housing ›

Flat House, UK, by Practice Architecture

The Flat House in Cambridgeshire was constructed from prefabricated hempcrete, a material that's becoming popular due to its ability to sequester carbon.

The owners of Margent Farm, where the house is located and which cultivates hemp, challenged Practice Architecture to use the plant to create an on-site residence with "incredibly low embodied carbon".

Find out more about Paradise ›

Hotel GSH extension, Denmark, by 3XN

A carbon-negative extension will be added to the Hotel GSH on the Danish island of Bornholm by 3XN and its sustainability-focuses sister studio GXN.

3XN said the goal is for the extension to become carbon-negative over its lifetime, absorbing more carbon than it consumes. It will utilise passive design and be built from CLT.

Find out more about the Hotel GSH extension ›

No Footprint House, Costa Rica, by A-01

No Footprint House is a prototype for a series of zero-carbon homes, set in the small village of Ojochal in Costa Rica, which is designed to have its climate passively controlled.

This prototype, called NFH-108, is the first in a series and emits 40 per cent less carbon than a typical Costa Rican house of the same size. A second one will have a 60 per cent reduction, the next one another 20, and the final house will offset the remainder through the production of local energy.

Find out more about No Footprint House ›

CLT Passivhaus, US, by Generate

Studio Generate and developer Placetailor are set to build a carbon-neutral CLT block of flats in Boston that will be made using a modular "kit of parts" system and aim to operate at a net-zero-carbon level.

The studio said the building would act as a "carbon sink" by storing the carbon in the timber of the CLT cellular structure and envelope over the lifetime of the building.

Find out more about the CLT Passivhaus ›

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Neighbors cautious of new designs for apartments on Old Colony website

The development crew hoping to completely transform the former Phillips Old Colony House on Morrissey Boulevard into a 219-unit apartment elaborate unveiled their latest proposal to a mostly unreceptive group of neighbors by using Zoom last Thursday evening.

The acre-and-a-fifty percent web page at 780 Morrissey Blvd., the moment home to the well known eating and functionality hall that shut in 2017, is now staying applied by a neighboring car or truck dealership as a storage region for its cars.

The parcel is owned by Phillips Family Properties, which also controls Boston Bowl, Phillips Sweet House, Ramada Inn, and Comfort and ease Inn amongst its Dorchester holdings. Phillips Family Properties partnered with the countrywide developers the Michaels Business and Cube 3 Studio Architects to fee the project.

Jay Russo, vice president of development at Michaels, explained the workforce amended its most the latest proposal — last aired for the duration of a virtual conference in August —to check out to address some of the fears lifted by critics. On the other hand, considerably of the criticism elevated in the previous conference came up once again on Thursday night time.

The existing plan phone calls for two buildings— 5 and six stories in height— with a roof deck, pet dog spa, and 136 parking areas. The proposal after again acquired vigorous thrust-back from several of the 27 folks on the phone who complained about a lack of affordability, flooding, accessibility to the sea, and website traffic.

In response, John Harding, a senior associate principal at Dice 3, said that by way of coordination with the Boston Civic Style and design Fee (BCDC), the workforce altered its options to reply the criticism.

“We’ve been equipped to make some quite significant modifications to the undertaking that we imagine are hitting on all of the aims of the project— making a better response to the site, and improved community open up place and advantages,” he claimed.

Builders enhanced the amount of models in the hottest proposal— up from the prior iteration’s determine of 206— but retained the quantity of parking areas the same. They elevated the sq.-footage of open room for both equally people and the community to consist of 18,800 and 14,200 sq. toes for those teams, respectively.

The new proposal also functions a style and design component that Harding explained breaks the much larger of the two structures proposed “into more manageable massing dimensions.”

“We’ve gotten a lot of beneficial responses from the [design commission board] and this is the direction that they’re encouraging us to carry on with,” Harding stated. “We still have two heights. The northern developing nonetheless has a extended footprint and will be 5 stories the 6-story constructing is continue to in a U-form, but the edges now splay open to maximize the views out to the ocean.”

The project’s proponents say that it would enhance a point out-led system to develop a multi-use route that would commence at Malibu Beach front and stop at Conley Street, providing a link by Victory Road and Tenean Street.

“The park that we were being looking at to be one of our most important rewards was seen as underwhelming, so we listened and tried using to re-think it. We centered that close to the potential bicycle path link,” claimed Harding. “We’ve found greater general public room and extra residential open room up on the jap going through courtyard that has views around the long term DCR multi-use path.”

He additional that the group is open to solutions for neighborhood retailers, in their pop-up park, which will be utilised for “active events on a truly significant profile piece of property.”

He also mentioned that the group will make a $100,000 greenback contribution to the city’s Local climate Ready Boston Fund, which will be allocated to the design efforts for Tenean Beach front and Conley Street, exclusively to a deployable gate outlined in latest metropolis designs.

The bulk of the two hour-extensive conference was dominated by inhabitants who spoke in opposition. Maria Lyons, a Port Norfolk resident and a member of an Impression Advisory Group for the task, led the cost.

“The mass and heights of this creating are going to be making a wall amongst Dorchester, Neponset, and the waterfront— worse than the expressway that’s there by now,” she claimed.

“The layout and the space keeps remaining referred to as ‘urban’ and in Dorchester we think about this as a coastal location,” she additional. “I don’t recognize why the BPDA and BCDC is thinking about it that way when DCR and Local climate Completely ready Boston are marketing improvements in the spot to turn out to be a much more all-natural, coastal area.”

Mark McGonagle, director of group affairs at the BPDA, explained that the project’s proposed peak and density are essentially precisely what the BPDA is searching for in an place equivalent to that of 780 Morrissey.

“We normally appear for the first row of development that goes up from tricky infrastructure like, in this scenario, a freeway to be at the very least medium in terms of height and density for the reason that we consider to block items like sound, and many others., from that freeway,” he stated.

Vivian Ortiz, a Mattapan resident and member of the Neponset River Greenway Council, reported that the part of the path together Freeport Street talked about by the developers was “going to be created a long time right before this task,” and that it would be not only a leisure path, but a single applied by pedestrians and bikers.

Mentioned Stephen Harvey, BPDA undertaking manager, “This bicycle path will be essential in the Neponset Greenway Path and let for the growth and growth of that and that space will be a lot much more activated with alterations that DCR has imagined of creating.”

Robert Genduso, a Pope’s Hill resident, provided that the newest strategy was an advancement over original models, but said he is anxious about how the pandemic could have an affect on the project’s viability.

“The improve in occupancy is unlucky, though,” he reported. “I’m not likely to belabor any of the points about top or density— most of us have appear to grips that this is what the potential is. But the city’s rental industry has improved as a outcome of Covid. There is a trend ongoing suitable now and that is that individuals are functioning from home. The town is already looking at 9 % vacancies, and I fret about this system in 3-5 yrs if this development continues on.”

A several attendees were disappointed with the amount of money of parking, which is proposed at underneath a 1:1 ratio. Harvey replied that section of the city’s goals to support transit oriented and sustainable developments wouldn’t really encourage a 1:1 parking ratio.

A couple of conference users, Gady Eason and Raheem Shepard, spoke from their perspective as representatives of the nearby carpenter’s union, inquiring the builders to dedicate to contracting with the union if the challenge were to go forward.

Charles Cofield, a Dorchester resident, explained the task “should be taken off the table. There are no true group benefits for this project, and it is pretty much like it will be on its individual little island and will truly feel absolutely distinct from the rest of the space.”

The task is at present beneath review by the BPDA, and much more neighborhood input classes will most likely be scheduled.

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