Helicon Collaborative / ArtPlace America, 2018
RESOURCE OVERVIEW
This report explores the potential for arts and cultural activity to contribute to community sustainability and resilience, in climate adaptability, energy, water, land, waste, and toxic pollution. The report finds that arts-based activities can help spark public demand by making environmental issues feel personal and real, build community capacity and agency, connected large-scale, abstract issues to personal experience, enrich and activate the built environment, and nurture sustainable economies.
KEY SECTIONS
Aligning Assets
Chapter 3 answers the question: What does culture have to do with sustainability?
Chapter 4 highlights five key ways that arts and culture strategies are already advancing sustainability goals.
Chapter 5 highlights six environmental goals and case studies of arts and culture projects that work towards these goals.
Chapter 8 provides nine case studies of creative placemaking projects working on environmental goals.