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By James FitzGerald
image captionThe London Sinfonietta warming up for its pedal-powered show, Houses Slide
As the arts and culture sector attempts to recover from the devastating impact of the pandemic, some creatives are making eye-catching attempts to prevent another crisis - this one environmental.
The likes of artists and musicians certainly have the power to influence others behaviour. And some of them are finding that climate action is actually making their work more marketable too.
But other organisations face an uncertain future due to Covid - with some struggling to return to business at all.
In June 2020, hundreds of creatives signed an open letter calling for a green recovery from Covid. It was organised by Julie s Bicycle (JB), a non-profit organisation working on sustainability in the creative industries. Founder Alison Tickell believes momentum has been building over the last year.
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Arena for a Tree, 2021. Photography: Gerhard Maurer
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Back in 1982, Joseph Beuys proposed a radical plan to plant 7000 oak trees in the German city of Kassel. Nearly forty years later, British artist Ackroyd & Harvey (Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey) talk to Aida Amoako about planting new trees outside the Tate Modern with acorns gathered from Beuys original project
Ralph Waldo Emerson was talking about history and the individual when he mentioned “the creation of a thousand forests in an acorn” but the phrase springs to mind when considering Ackroyd & Harvey’s project
Beuys’ Acorns. 100 young potted oak trees are lined up in uniform rows on the Tate Modern’s South Terrace just outside the Blavatnik building. Their leaves are yellow green, their trunks can barely be described as such, yet they are the very image of potential.