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Eco-stitchers: Sustainable Textile Art on Climate Change

Hills and Rivers' is a joint work by the 5 members of the Ecostitchers textile art group. This piece takes its inspiration from the landscape of our city. Each panel is designed separately by one of the members, drawing on their particular skills and their feelings about the landscape.

There is currently a super exhibition at Sheffield Central Library of the work of Eco-stitchers, a Sheffield group of textile artists who work in an environmentally conscious and sustainable way. My favourite piece was a textile version of the Climate Stripes, which shows how the planet is heating over time. This week, during the heatwave,ContinueContinue reading “Eco-stitchers: Sustainable Textile Art on Climate Change”

Catastrophic climate change could become unstoppable.

I don’t like to say “I told you so” but this week’s frightening news that the world is likely to breach the 1.5C climate threshold by 2027 should come as no surprise if you have been reading my columns. Countries pledged, under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, to hold global temperatures to no higher thanContinueContinue reading “Catastrophic climate change could become unstoppable.”