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Cover Artist : Raymond Pettibon
October 22nd, 2011 by admin
Raymond Pettibon, our “artist in residence” for the Water Issue, holds a degree in economics from UCLA. In 1977 he pursued a career in art starting out designing album covers for punk rock bands including The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, and Black Flag – a band started by his brother Greg Ginn for which Pettibon played [...]
The Water Fund : An interview with Financial Advisor John Dickerson
October 20th, 2011 by admin
RED FLAG MAGAZINE: How did you get interested in water? JOHN DICKERSON: At Summit, we have been water investors since 1980, when I first volunteered as treasurer of a municipal water district. Becoming intrigued with the space due to the cash flows generated by my non-profit utility, I asked Wall Street for their research on water [...]
Water Wars : Las Vegas
October 20th, 2011 by admin
Las Vegas shouldn’t exist. This was my opinion before I migrated from wet, sinkhole-ridden Florida to the inhospitably arid Las Vegas Valley. It’s also an opinion shared by many of the ranchers that live hundreds of miles north on both sides of the border between Nevada and Utah, who fear their way of life threatened [...]
Sweden, the Model (Green) Citizen, is Giving Away Prizes
October 20th, 2011 by admin
When it comes to the environmentally conscious, if thinking on a global scale, there are a few countries that sit on a high ledge in order to serve as models to the rest of the world. Sweden, according to a 2008 Yale study, is number three on that list. (FYI: The U.S. made slot 38). [...]
Pool Report
October 18th, 2011 by admin
The swimming pool is a symbol of the American Dream, or at least it feeds into the mythology of an All-American good time. There is something about the dive or the plunge into a chlorinated hole of electric blue that presents the illusion of refreshment – of a fun, healthy summer. But, there is a [...]
Reena K. Shah
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Reena K. Shah graduated cum laude from the University of San Francisco in 2007 with a B.S. in Politics. At USF, she served two terms as V.P. of Service of the USF Politics Society and spearheaded a campaign for the university to promote social and environmental sustainability by joining the Graduation Pledge Alliance. Reena spent [...]
Lisa Olsson
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Lisa Olsson was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, and that is also where she has done most of her journalistic work. Besides working for Scandinavias biggest newspaper Aftonbladet and the magazine and web site of organization Amnesty she has been freelancing for various media focusing on human rights. She is also writing about film [...]
Lotta Zachrisson
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Lotta Zachrisson has been working as a journalist since 2002, the first few years being employed by various media (newspapers, tv, radio) in her home country Sweden. In 2006 she moved to the Jerusalem to start reporting about the conflict for Swedish, French, Spanish and US media. She has since traveled around the world – [...]
Hayfa Matar
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Hayfa Matar is an Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain. She also held the position of Counselor to the President of the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Previously, she worked at the Embassy of Bahrain in London as researcher to the Ambassador, and has also worked as [...]
Becky Straw
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Becky Straw received her MSW at Columbia University, with a focus on International Social Welfare and Social Enterprise Administration. She is currently the program director at Charity: Water where she manages 890 water and sanitation projects in 13 countries. She has always loved water issues but gets really excited talking about toilets, diarrhea, and the [...]
Nicky Yates
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Nicky Yates received her Master’s degree in Psychology from NYU in 2007. She left the New York County District Attorney’s Office as a Child Victim Specialist in 2007 to join the charity: water staff. Her passion for international aid was sparked after spending time in Namibia and Kazakhstan. The amazing atmosphere at charity: water and [...]
Esther Havens
October 18th, 2011 by admin
Esther Havens is a humanitarian documentary photographer who focuses on social-awareness campaigns with non-profits around the globe, capturing stories that transcend a person’s circumstance that reveal the strength of an individual regardless of the situation in which they find themselves. Esther has traveled extensively to over 40 countries and seeks to open hearts and minds [...]
Philippe Cousteau
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Philippe Cousteau is the son of Jan and Philippe Cousteau Sr. and the grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau. As a member of the legendary family, Philippe is continuing the work of his father through EarthEcho International, the non-profit organization he founded with his sister and mother and of which he serves as CEO. In addition [...]
Katharine Werner
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Katharine Werner grew up on Miami Beach. In 2004, she graduated from New York University. She has since worked in the New York offices of Miramax/The Weinstein Co, and most recently on the film “Morning Glory” for Paramount Pictures.
Adam Schroeder
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Adam R.W. Schroeder is a fiction writer born and raised New Yorker. He graduated with honors from Bard College in May 2009. He divides his time between Long Island and Manhattan.
A Braver Newer World?
October 17th, 2011 by admin
“How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sebastien?” When Raj and his wife Whitney decided to have a baby, only the best would do. There was little question of the viability of their love making organically, but Raj and Whitney wanted to be sure of a few things. Raj wanted to be sure of a [...]
A Walk in the Woods
October 17th, 2011 by admin
A FEW YEARS AGO, I visited Southwood Elementary, the grade school I attended when I was a boy growing up in Raytown, Missouri. I asked a classroom of children about their relationship with nature. Many of them offered the now-typical response: they preferred playing video games; they favored indoor activities—and when they were outside, they [...]
Julie Hooper
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Julie Hooper is a Certified Integrative Health Counselor by The Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Teacher’s College Columbia University. She specializes in nutrition and lifestyle counseling for people in the spotlight who need to look and feel their best. She is currently involved a series of workshops, empowering women to make wiser and more intuitive [...]
Vaccine Report
October 17th, 2011 by admin
In the developed world, parents are currently deciding whether or not to vaccinate their children against the 2009 influenza A H1N1 virus (typically referred to by the more marketable moniker “swine flu”). Over the past year, the spread of the virus has reached virtually all corners of the earth, but limited supplies and contractual agreements [...]
Gabriel Thompson
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Gabriel Thompson has contributed to New York, The Nation, New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, In These Times and others. He is the recipient of the Richard J. Margolis Award, the Studs Terkel Media Award, and a collective Sidney Hillman Award. His writings are collected at www.wherethesilenceis.org. The author of There’s No José Here and Calling [...]
Frances Moore Lappé
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Frances Moore Lappé is the author of sixteen books, most recently “Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad,” winner of the Gold “Best of Small Press” Nautilus Award 2008. Her website is www.smallplanet.org.
Fanny Singer
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Fanny Singer lives in England where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in the History of Art at the University of Cambridge. In 2005 she graduated from Yale University where she studied Fine Art and helped to instigate the Yale Sustainable Food Project. She has previously contributed to Print Quarterly and served as a San Francisco [...]
Cristian Feher
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Cristian Feher is a professional Chef and writer. He is originally from Venezuela, but grew up in Toronto, Canada until his recent migration to Tampa, USA where he lives with his wife and step-daughter. Cristian has done a lot of traveling and continues to eat his way around the globe! His passion for food is rivaled [...]
Ben Lenzner
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Ben Lenzner is a photographer, filmmaker, educator, storyteller and makes a really tasty chai. He has taught photography in the community programs of the International Center of Photography and has worked as an artist in residence in New York City public schools. He is agraduate of the Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Media program [...]
In the Dawn of Life
October 17th, 2011 by admin
At the age of 12, my world was turned upside down. On February 14, 1997, I was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia. Thirteen years later, there is a lot of history to reflect upon and appreciate as I continue to move forward. After my diagnosis, I was still a typical “tween”—a huge fan of the [...]
Scott Rosenstein
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Scott Rosenstein is a global health analyst in Eurasia Group’s comparative analytics practice. He specializes in the politics and management of global health issues, and their impact on economic and state stability. Coverage areas include emerging infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, TB, avian flu, and SARS), food and product safety, intellectual property, and international development. His previous [...]
Returning Home
October 17th, 2011 by admin
I have been a photographer of both fashion and fine art for over 20 years. Photographing foreign people and foreign lands has been my main passion, and has taken me on a journey through over 90 countries on five continents. My childhood was spent growing up between a few very different places
Libby Spears
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Libby Spears is a director of both narrative and documentary work. She conceived of the idea for Playground in 2001 while photographing a documentary in the Philippines and Central America about women’s sexual self-image. Libby founded the Nest Foundation in 2004 to create a platform for local & global awareness. Libby’s background in social issue filmmaking [...]
False Start
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Birth is the beginning. The first breath a newborn takes is the start of their life, but in Korea you are born with one year already assigned to your age. And here is the vital difference between two perspectives – two paths being followed by expectant mothers across the world today. This is no longer [...]
Sorting Through the Mess of Child Labor
October 17th, 2011 by admin
A case study from the shores of Manila Bay According to the International Labor Organisation (ILO), one in six children worldwide is engaged in some form of child labor. That’s 250 million children somewhere in the world between the ages of 5 and 14, stripped of their basic rights as a human being – those [...]
Isaiah Thompson
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Isaiah Thompson is a professional writer and journalist living in Philadelphia. Currently, he is the full-time in-house staff writer for the Philadelphia City Paper, where he covers everything from municipal finance to feral chickens. Before moving to Philadelphia, Isaiah was a staff writer at the Miami New Times, where he won the 2007 Investigative Reporters [...]
Exile vs. Miami-Dade County
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Two signs hover above the desk of South Florida lobbyist Ronald Book. One says “It can be done.” The other: “Nothing is impossible.” They are mottos: Ronald Book is a man who knows how to make things happen. He’s made a very lucrative career out of it, lobbying the state legislature on behalf of some of [...]
Vanessa Boshoff
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Vanessa Boshoff is a TV host, wildlife naturalist, and travel guide, creating and hosting environmental/ social educational programming for Latin America, working alongside UNICEF, the Red Cross, TNC and WFP. Vanessa has also had two TV series on the Animal Planet. She is now in the process of launching her new online travel company “OmTrek [...]
Sumir Keenan
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Sumir Keenan currently studies biology and primatology in the Master’s Program at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland. Leading up to her Master’s program she studied primate behavior and cognition at Zoo Atlanta for two years where she learned of the issue she reports on in “I Saved a Gorilla Today”.
Bonnie Blodgett
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Bonnie Blodgett is a writer, gardener, and do-it-yourselfer who lives in the land of short summers and long winters, Minnesota, and likes to keep busy. Remembering Smell, released June 2010 took four years to research and write. Bonnie is currently dividing her time between book promoting, garden writing, and hosting Blundering Gardener TV.
Ashi Rawat
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Ashi Rawat is a singer/song writer living in Santa Cruz, California. She received her BFA from California Institute of the Arts. After spending time in South Africa and India, Ashi became more interested in spiritual pursuits, human rights issues and environmental conservation. In the article “I Saved a Gorilla Today” she raises awareness about a [...]
Chaos to Calm: Using Mindfulness with Middle School Students
October 17th, 2011 by admin
A chime sounds. The laughter of children slows to a quiet calm as the rustling of bodies in chairs stills and the only sound heard is the pulsing breath of children as they begin the school day with a moment of peace. This is beautifully serene, but this is not middle school, at least not [...]
Angela Ruggeri
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Angela Ruggeri was raised in Long Island, New York. She commits her time to Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and leads a community effort each year to raise funds for CFF through the Great Strides Walk. She is currently in the process of founding, “Breathe Believe”, a non-profit to benefit Cystic Fibrosis. [...]
A Legacy for All
October 17th, 2011 by admin
The name Jacques Cousteau is synonymous with exploration, adventure, and care for our planet. To many he was a hero, an icon and a man who peeled away the veil that had shrouded the oceans in mystery for our entire history…but to us, he was papa grand. While people often associate him with the ocean, [...]
To Heal a Warrior’s Heart
October 17th, 2011 by admin
In northern Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted to serve as soldiers in a brutal civil war that has raged for the past two decades. The war has made orphans and refugees of many, with 1.6 million Ugandans forced into overcrowded camps. Doctors Without Borders named the conflict in northern Uganda one [...]
American Health is S.A.D.
October 17th, 2011 by admin
I’ve been on my own health journey for a while now, and along the way I have encountered some fairly strange yet significant scenarios – voluntarily slaughtering a chicken not necessarily being the most bizarre among them. Today I am a health counselor, and it all started with the question “What to eat?” It is [...]
A Mother’s Recipe for Love
October 17th, 2011 by admin
As the daughter of Alice Waters, I am regularly asked what it was like to grow up around such good food. But my childhood was never focused exclusively on what was for dinner (although discussions about meals did populate the intermissions between them); food was a thread embroidering an otherwise richly sensuous upbringing. All aspects [...]
Migrating Through Northern India in Search of Indigenous Rights
October 17th, 2011 by admin
From New Delhi to Dehradun, the capital of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, the train journey lasts six hours, climbs the lesser Himalayan Range once, crosses state lines twice and finally comes to a rest in the fertile Doon Valley at the foothills of the Himalayas. Dehradun is the last stop and the end of [...]
Noah’s Ark of the 21st Century
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Today I reached for a grape. I popped it in my mouth and cracked through its center in one bite. The skin separated from the flesh, the juice pooled under my tongue and my back molar came crashing down on a small coarse pellet. Instantly, I winced and spit the dismembered pieces of the grape [...]
The Art of Duplicating Nature
October 17th, 2011 by admin
I sat in a small office, on an ornate leather chair looking across at a plaque mounted on the wall. The plaque was simple enough, but had a letter and a picture in it. It was a personal letter signed by President Ronald Reagan sending his thanks with a picture of the ex-president smiling and [...]
Artist : Wayne Thiebaud
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920 Mesa, Arizona) is a painter whose works came into popularity during the rise of Pop Art. The new consumer culture born out of the Post World War II era found a safe haven in the dependability and accessibility of mass produced consumer products. Americans began to project their desires onto popular [...]
From the Hill to Your Table
October 17th, 2011 by admin
A Day in the Life of a Food Lobbyist: Salmonella in peanut butter. The price of a wedge of Parmesan cheese. Those weird growth hormones in milk. These sound like issues to be negotiated by the consumer, in consultation with her stomach and her wallet, but not the stuff of federal legislation. Yet every now [...]
At the End of the World
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Working in the Shadows
October 17th, 2011 by admin
I set out to write Working in the Shadows after reading an article in the New York Times in the fall of 2007, which recounted the problems a hog slaughterhouse was having in retaining American workers after an immigration raid caused more than one-thousand Latino immigrants to depart. Many people in the article were astounded [...]
Artist: Pinar Yolaçan
October 17th, 2011 by admin
The two series of photographs featured in the story “Working in the Shadows” by Gabriel Thompson were created by Turkish-born artist Pinar Yolaçan. The first, completed in 2004 is titled “Perishables” and presents 12 individual portraits of women dressed in elaborately fashioned raw meat and animal parts. The palette is contained within a restricted range [...]
Second Wind
October 17th, 2011 by admin
My name is Angela Ruggeri and I am pretty much your average 24-year-old girl. In my spare time, I enjoy traveling, going to the gym, dancing, the beach, and just having a great time no matter where I am. I try to live my life to its fullest and experience everything there is in life. [...]
Closing the Ozone Hole: How Good Science Made Good Policy
October 17th, 2011 by admin
In 1985, with eleven words, eight graphs of squiggly lines and dots, four mathematical formulas and two tables of measurements, three scientists set off a wave of concern that culminated in one of the international community’s few environmental success stories: the discovery of the hole in the ozone layer, and the subsequent global effort to [...]
In the Breathing Gap
October 17th, 2011 by admin
It was hot and sticky, weighted with humidity, the kind of air you only inhale deep in tropical jungles as I straddled my not-so “trusty looking steed”. We had already traveled as far as the road would take us by car, 3 hours from the sooty high-rises of Panama City by way of a stretch [...]
The Seed of Breath
October 17th, 2011 by admin
As a human being, I have always sensed my connection to the natural world. From an early age I knew that when my knees hurt it meant rain was coming, or that when the autumn sky stirred with flocks of feathered friends, it meant Miami’s so-called winter was setting in. I grew up in Miami, [...]
A Year in Water
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Close your eyes and think about water. This is something that each and every person on the planet can do. No matter where you live, or what your personal experience is with the element, you have ceaselessly come in contact with it throughout your life. If, however, I ask a selection of people to talk [...]
What’s in the Air, Really?
October 17th, 2011 by admin
When we think of air we think of Oxygen, but that’s an all too human point of view. There is much more in the air than oxygen and mainly because we put it there. C. Malik examines the “air up there”. Mexico’s drug wars have made it a very deadly place, just last month over [...]
Artist: Ernesto Caivano
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Ernesto Caivano’s meticulously detailed ink drawings depict an ambitious narrative based on lovers’ courtship, separation, retribution and eventual evolution. Varying in format and scale from scroll-like panoramas to small detailed studies, Caivano drawing’s portray a timeless tale of Polygon and Versus who were torn apart upon the consummation of their union and transported into the [...]
A Falconer’s Tale
October 17th, 2011 by admin
“Her name was Vicki” short for Victoria Xaviera. “She was named after a girl I had a crush on and the ‘Happy Hooker’ Xavier Hollander.” The woman in question is a Red-tailed hawk and it was the first bird professional falconer Jeff Diaz caught and kept long enough to give a name. He was 12 [...]
I Helped Save a Gorilla Today
October 17th, 2011 by admin
I am sitting in my office at Zoo Atlanta entering the data I collected earlier into a massive spreadsheet. At 1:37 pm Taz was sleeping, Kuchi was nursing her five-week-old baby, Kudzu was eating a zucchini, Sukari was playing with Macy and Kazi, and Gunther and Kali were intently examining something in the grass. At [...]
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October 17th, 2011 by admin
Anna Louie Sussman
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Anna Louie Sussman is a New York-based investigative reporter covering local and international human rights and social justice issues, politics and policy, gender, culture, and the odd crime story. A graduate of Brown University (BA Comparative Literature ’04) and the London School of Economics (MSc. Human Rights ’08), her work has appeared in the Wall Street [...]
Return to Paradise
October 17th, 2011 by admin
If you live in Bahrain, as I do, you know what it’s like to live on a small island – to be surrounded by water – and to experience the surreal humor of being faced with the problem of water shortage. You would also know that Bahrain is the mythical location of the Garden of [...]
David Rosenthal
October 17th, 2011 by admin
David Rosenthal is an award-winning writer-director and a graduate of the American Film Institute. He recently finished directing his third feature, ”Janie Jones”, starring Academy Award nominees, Abigail Breslin, Elisabeth Shue and Alessandro Nivola and produced by David Lynch’s production company, Absurda, which premiered at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. He currently lives and works in Los [...]
Jessica Schweifel-Mahaney
October 17th, 2011 by admin
Jessica Schweifel-Mahaney is the Founder and Director of Root For Trees, a NYC-based nonprofit organization committed to conserving the urban forest, raising environmental consciousness through art, and connecting people to nature. Jessica is also an Integrative Life Coach with a private practice in Brooklyn. Both facets of her work are steeped in the mission of elevating consciousness [...]
Richard Louv
October 16th, 2011 by admin
Richard Louv is a journalist and author of eight books about the connections between family, nature and community. His newest book is The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder (Algonquin), which offers a new vision of the future, in which our lives are as immersed in nature as they are in [...]
Pinar Yolaçan
October 13th, 2011 by admin
Pinar Yolaçan was born in Ankara, Turkey. She attended London’s Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and Chelsea School of Art and Design, and received her BFA at Cooper Union in New York City. She has participated in several international exhibitions. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Istanbul, Turkey.
Michael Nye
October 13th, 2011 by admin
Michael Nye lives in San Antonio a few blocks from the Alamo. He practiced law for 10 years before pursuing photography full time. He has had over 70 one-person exhibits in museums and universities around the country. In this issue we feature images and excerpts from his project “About Hunger and Resilience”. He is married [...]
Lessons in Water Conservation from The Tortoise Garden
October 12th, 2011 by admin
*The names in this article have been changed to ensure their safety BEIT SAHOUR, OCCUPIED WEST BANK: I arrived at Bustan Qaraaqa (“the Tortoise Garden”) sweaty and dusty, after a drive from Ramallah through a landscape the color of dry. A four-acre farm in the Occupied West Bank, it is run by three friendly hippies [...]
“Bottlemania” Explained
October 12th, 2011 by admin
Why should we stop drinking bottled water? Here’s a catalogue of reasons that would put Homer to shame: 88% of empty plastic water bottles in the United States are not recycled – that translates into 30-40 billion plastic water bottles a year – that’s right, billion; It takes an estimated 450-1,000 years for plastic to [...]
In the Name of Water
October 12th, 2011 by admin
Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil, will be celebrating his company’s 25 years of success when he becomes “the first clown in space” as he blasts off from Earth on Sept. 30th aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft heading to the International Space Station. It is estimated that he is paying 35 million dollars for [...]
Robert Curran
October 11th, 2011 by admin
Robert Curran is a fashion and fine art photographer who has taken photographs in over 90 countries on 5 continents. Curran grew up between the Northeastern United States and Cusco Peru, and holds a B.A from the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been published in Vogue, People, Town & Country, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and [...]
Lessons from the Ancients
October 10th, 2011 by admin
Senegalese Farmers Help Break Ground in Agricultural Development. Amanda Fortier reports from Dakar. On every continent there is a history of man that begins with the land. Through time and trial the lessons reaped from the soil were passed down to sustain the rise and succesion of each passing generation. In North America the native [...]
In the Garden of Good and Legal
October 10th, 2011 by admin
From the corner of Freeman Street in the South Bronx, just under the subway station, the view encompasses three dilapidated churches, two delis, a Salvation Army thrift shop and a Puerto Rican restaurant. On a recent morning, one could also see a man in a straw hat supervising another man and woman busily planting beach [...]
A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food
October 10th, 2011 by admin
“There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” - Mahatma Gandhi Forty years ago, squirreled away in the basement “Ag” library at U.C. Berkeley, I wanted answers to one question: Why were 960 million people going hungry? At the time, newspaper headlines and experts [...]
Wheatfield A Confrontation (an installation)
October 10th, 2011 by admin
After months of preparations, in May l982, a 2-acre wheat field was planted on a landfill in lower Manhattan, two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center, facing the Statue of Liberty. Two hundred truckloads of dirt were brought in and 285 furrows were dug by hand cleared of rocks and garbage. The [...]
Jenny Holzer
October 7th, 2011 by admin
We The Hoarders
October 6th, 2011 by admin
The United States Federal Government is the single largest buyer of information technology in the world, spending around 80 billion dollars a year. Data has to be catalogued, stored and protected all at an immense cost. The Federal Government currently employs data centers for this purpose – physical locations that contain primarily electronic equipment used [...]
The Winter of Our Discontent
October 5th, 2011 by admin
The following 7 questions were proposed to a diverse range of people at “Occupy Wall Street”. They were between the ages of 16 and 80. Their race, gender and class were mixed. Their occupations ranged from students, to teachers, to mechanics to squatters. I asked each of them what economic bracket they were raised in [...]
Artist: Michael Nye
October 5th, 2011 by admin
Michael Nye lives in downtown San Antonio. He practiced law for 10 years before pursuing photography full time. Recipient of a Mid-America National Endowment for the Arts grant in photography, and a Kronkosky Foundation grant, he participated in two Arts America tours in the Middle East and Asia, and has exhibited and lectured widely in [...]
The Story of Stuff
October 4th, 2011 by admin
Step Away from The Stuff! – Advice from Annie Leonard: Red Flag Magazine: You describe the pernicious cycle of working really hard, spending time watching TV and getting told to buy things by advertisers. Even for people who generally avoid TV, advertising messages are everywhere: they’re part of the environment, they’re online, they’re in our [...]
Letter from the Editor
October 3rd, 2011 by admin
I came up with a way of looking at material objects a few years back when I was making a move cross-country and needed to streamline my belongings to fit into a tiny closet in a tiny house I was about to move into and share with a partner. “Totems and Tools” - I said [...]
Reel Look: Dirt! The Movie
October 2nd, 2011 by admin
“Dirt! The Movie” is all about, well, dirt. Inspired by the book Dirt: The Esctatic Skin of the Earth written by William Bryant Logan, the film crosses the globe to address issues surrounding our planet’s soil – the source of our food, our oxygen, essentially all life. The film explores the spectrum of stories connected [...]
Cover Artist: Kyle Macdonald
October 2nd, 2011 by admin
The value of a single paperclip is almost too minuscule to even calculate. But when Kyle MacDonald looked at the red paperclip that resided on his desk, he saw an opportunity. On July 12, 2005 he posted a picture of a red paperclip on Craigslist and asked if anyone wanted to make a trade for [...]
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October 1st, 2011 by admin
The Cover
October 1st, 2011 by admin
Olive Lykins
October 1st, 2011 by admin
Olive Lykins is a writer and artist currently living in Indiana. He graduated from Eugene Lang College at the New School for Social Research in New York City with a degree in creative writing. Most recently he worked at The Lambda Literary Foundation, where he served as associate producer for the 21st Lamda Literary Awards. [...]
Neil Farber
September 30th, 2011 by admin
Neil Farber is a contemporary artist that uses a simple expressive line-drawing style reminiscent of children’s book illustrations. Farber has created a world populated by an odd cast of characters, and combines innocence with a complicated and often foreboding sense of the absurd. His works blur the boundary between childhood fear and adult fantasy. Above [...]
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September 5th, 2011 by admin
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Jessica Pilot
September 5th, 2011 by admin
Jessica Pilot was born and raised in NYC where she still resides and works full-time as a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in: The Boston Globe, Glamour, BlackBook, Bust, Psychology Today, Moviemaker, among others. She has interviewed celebrities from Iggy Pop to David Cross and has investigated topics ranging from the mail-order bride industry [...]
Flag #1: Southern Philippines
September 2nd, 2011 by admin
Location: Mindanao Island, Southern Philippines – The situation for rural, novice, amateur miners here is dangerous and grave. Mining is a way of life in the rainforest highlands of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines. Much like fishing or farming is passed down from generation to generation, mining is a familial trade here. However, fathers [...]
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September 1st, 2011 by admin
Rachel Levy
September 1st, 2011 by admin
Rachel Levy, LMHC is an accomplished relationship therapist and community builder in Miami’s South Beach. She is the director of The Sacred Space Miami and co-founder of Prayerdanse, a conscious movement practice integrating music, dance, spirituality, and emotional release in the presence of a community built on support and love. [...]
Nicole Davis
September 1st, 2011 by admin
Nicole Davis has been based in New York City for the past decade, where she received her master’s in Art History from New York University.
Davis made her break into journalism by reporting on contemporary artists. In 2006 Davis journeyed to rural China to produce a documentary on a nonprofit group bringing much needed medical care to Chinese citizens living below the poverty line. This was Davis’s second feature length documentary, but it was this journey, which culminated two months later in Japan, that broadened the scope of her work to encompass the problems facing local and global communities.
Since then she has produced and co-produced over 25 investigative short documentaries in 14 countries, mainly for Current TV. In tandem with her journalistic documentary work, Davis launched a web-based documentary series in 2007 called Artnet TV, to serve as a medium for the continuation of her work with contemporary artists.
The idea for Red Flag Magazine came to Davis after years of hearing her colleagues and contemporaries echo her own desire to change the world – in so many different ways – for the better. Yet, however acute their collective desire may have been, none of them took significant action. She realized that what they were all lacking were the tools and the support of a community to really take action. Davis imagined that making changes for the better could become a way of life if supported by a dynamic and well informed social network – seeing herself as a work in progress also in need of the positive influence of a community committed to change.
Davis has supported the following nonprofit groups with her time: UNICEF, The Boys and Girls Club, The East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, The Happy Hearts Fund, New York Cares, Operation Walk, The Surfrider Foundation and UNICEF. She is also the cofounder of the environmental nonprofit organization Root for Trees and a a member of the Yoga Gangsters.
Reel Look : The Playground Project
August 8th, 2011 by admin
Nicole Davis
August 6th, 2011 by admin
Nicole Davis is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and the founder and editor of Red Flag Magazine. She has a Master’s in Art History from New York University. She currently cannot call one given spot her home, and as her homestead borders get wider and wider her love and accountability to the planet at large grows [...]
The End
August 2nd, 2011 by admin