Regan Rosburg is an artist and naturalist. Recently, her work has been an investigation into society's collective grief, melancholia and mania which manifests as consumption and distraction. She has conducted biology-based research trips to the Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Thailand, The Pacific Northwest Coast, and the Smokey Mountains of Northeast Tennessee.

Rosburg works in a variety of materials. Her resin work contains precious artifacts: plant and animal relics, bones, insects, lace and painted imagery. These objects are suspended in incredibly laborious, three dimensional resin "paintings." The use of resin poignantly addresses her growing concern over plastic pollution in the environment, while presenting the beauty of plant and animal species.

Regan curated Axis Mundi - an exhibition of 21 artists from all over the USA and Canada that responded to the topics of Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia. 

• Ecopsychology 
• The three terms expressed on Axis Mundi: Artists on Ecopsychology
• • Freud's “Mourning, Melancholia, and Mania” PDF
  • Renee Lurtzman on Environmental Melancholia 
  • E. O. Wilson and Biophilia / Forest Bathing in Japan  
• The 2017 Biennial of Americas in Denver, CO
• Chris Jordan's film "Albatross"
• The 21 artists and their work can be found at AXIS MUNDI Artists on EcoPsychology: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania, and Biophilia
• Regan's "The Relentless Memorial"
• Axis Mundi Brings The Work of Twenty-one Artists from the USA and Canada
• Jennifer Jenal showing of Albatros
• Summer 2018 showings at the William Havu Gallery in Denver

• ReganRosburg.com 
• Regan Rosburg on InstaGram #reganrosburg
• Regan Rosburg on Tumblr
• Regan Rosburg on Vimeo

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ZACKERY RAGO is the Youth Outreach Manager for Exposure Labs' Chasing Coral Impact Campaign and is thrilled to engage youth around the globe through science, art, and passion.

Zack’s passion for coral reefs began in the Hawaiian Islands where he spent his childhood summers under the waves of the Pacific. His infatuation with coral led to a position in the marine aquarium industry for 4 years before bringing his passion to Teens4Oceans and View Into The Blue. He received a degree in Evolutionary Biology & Ecology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a talented reef aquarist and long-time scuba diver, he is dedicated to communicating the story of coral through science and art.

• https://www.chasingcoral.com/
• http://www.exposurelabs.com/
• https://teens4oceans.org/
• https://www.viewintotheblue.com/

• Zack Rago
• Zack on Twitter @coral_buff
• Zack on Instagram @coral_buff
• Zack and Resources on www.ChasingCoral.com

• Ashley Mazanec at EcoArtsFoundation.org
• Britta Nancarrow on Instagram
• Britta Nancarrow at the Climate Reality Project
• EcoArtsFoundation.org
• Let’s Talk About The Weather podcast page
• Email the show

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Beginning in April 2016, environmental visual arts activist Noam Bedein began documenting the treasures of the Dead Sea, gathering evidence of new dramatic geological phenomena and measuring the constant and rapid receding water level.

Scientists are warning that if something is not done immediately, all that will remain of the Dead Sea will be a small pool of salt water.

His mission is to share the incredible beauty of this World Heritage Site using many forms of visual arts; such as a photo exhibition display and virtual reality  demonstration, all for sounding the alarm of its imminent disappearance. Since founding Dead Sea Revival Project he has been recognized by National Geographic and CNN/VR.

• Dead Sea rapid receding water level
• Dead Sea Revival Project
• Noam Bedein on Instagram
• National Geographic and CNN/VR.

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• Dead Sea Revival Project
• Noam Bedein on Instagram
• noam@deadsearevival.org

Mario Benassi is a producer, director and cinematographer dedicated to the preservation of biodiversity. National Geographic, PBS and Discovery Channel are just a few of the many organizations Benassi has worked with.

Acclaimed for filming in rugged and remote jungles, Benassi has put himself in extreme situations to capture intimate moments with truly amazing wildlife. He now resides in Haines, Alaska where he continues to document the wonders of nature exposing how pollution and other environmental issues affect the ecosystems.

As founder of Wildside Productions, an organization that uses media, presentations and live animal encounters to create environmental awareness, Benassi’s goal is to inspire the preservation of the Earth’s beauty.

• Marty Stouffer's Wild America.
• Ginger Kathrens and The Cloud Foundation protecting and preserving America's wild horses and burros.
• Mario Benassi film Toxic Treasure (listed down the page) at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival.

Mario Benassi
Producer / Director / Cinematographer
HC 60 Box 2844
Haines, AK 99827
Wildside Productions LTD
Mario Benassi films on Vimeo
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Daniel Hudon, originally from Canada, is an adjunct lecturer in math, astronomy and physics. He is the author of two books of nonfiction: a humorous intro to the universe, called The Bluffer’s Guide to the Cosmos and a lyrical prose compendium designed to raise awareness about the biodiversity crisis, called Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader. He likes to go hiking and kayaking and to dance Argentine tango.

He can be found online at DanielHudon.com, @daniel_hudon, and in Boston, MA.

Be still, my heart, these great trees are prayers, and as I watch them swell above me I see the symmetry of hands pressed together tapering skyward and try to remember when I last loved a tree so much I wanted to get lost in its forest, or even its shadow.

Once in a Toronto park I saw a maple sing out as if it was the last tree on Earth; never had I seen such red for in Alberta, where I grew up, fall was brief and yellow, without maples. I remember telling my parents about it on the phone. On my block in Boston, every autumn a maple turns red in a slow burn from the top down over several weeks, as if refusing to let its fire out too quickly. But last fall it turned early, dropped its leaves before the end of August and now bark is peeling away from the trunk. All winter I wondered if it would bud in the spring and now I know. I fear it will be removed and don’t know what I will do then.

Last year scientists said our planet had three trillion trees, enough to give each person four hundred and twenty two, a small forest and really, I’d like to know where mine are because I want to climb one of them, or perhaps build a treehouse, string a hammock between a pair, or walk among them as if they are elders of the Earth, praying for all of us.

Daniel Hudon, Ph.D.
Twitter: @daniel_hudon
Web: DanielHudon.com

See my new book: Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals: An Extinction Reader, available at http://penandanvil.com/brief-eulogies/

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