Message in a Bottle

By Mera McGrew

Mission Blue is offering an exclusive online preview of New York artist, Asher Jay’s, newest art installation — Sea Speak Sphere: Message in a Bottle. The art installation is part of a larger conceptual, collaborative campaign that aims to highlight various ocean initiatives and advocates marine conservation.

Jay told Mission Blue, “ I just wanted to come up with a way in which I could speak up for the oceans but that would also encompass all the voices that are doing something similar.”

The art installation is made up of 100 painted bottles that bring to life personal statements or “blue memos” about the world’s ocean from some of the biggest names in marine biology, conservation, photography, exploration, journalism and more. Using recycled plastic bottles, scrap paper, and paint Jay has found a way to offer a visual voice to help communicate complex ocean issues, solution strategies and urgent blue memos.

“Sea Speak Sphere is about collaboration, community and a strong commitment to the cause,” explained Jay. “This is a very quick way to communicate, in a glimpse, something that people don’t take time to fully understand or didn’t previously have a particular interest in.”

The meticulously curated content of the installation serves as a call to action for people from all walks of life. Jay explained, “I feel like images have the power to mobilize the masses, and that is why I am doing this…”

The premier of Sea Speak Sphere: Message in a Bottle by Asher Jay will premiere this Friday June 8th, 6:30-8:30pm at Green Spaces in New York. Preview the installation here. Click through the gallery to get an exclusive look at 28 of the bottles paired with excerpts from the personal statements that were offered and which helped inspire the beautiful works of art.

For more information about Sea Speak Sphere visit the campaign website. To find out more about the premiere of the installation and tickets click here.

All photographs of original artwork taken by Dar Riser, Good Light Works. 

Green Spaces: Entrepreneurial Space in NY & Colorado

If you live in New York or Denver or are planning to set up an office in any of these locations, then consider checking out Green Spaces for your needs. This is because one of the aims of Green Spaces is to provide coworking office space for social technopreneurs. The good thing about Green Spaces is its environment itself. You will be surrounded with a community of people who are willing to do networking and work together with you.

Click here for the full story. Thanks for the mention, Techzed!

GreenBuzz - Taking Care of Business

By Joel Makower, Chairman & Executive Editor of GreenBiz

As you read this, the GreenBiz team is in New York, putting the final touches on the GreenBiz Forum, the second of our three-part event. Last week's Forum in Minneapolis was a hit, we were told, and the local business community -- from big companies like 3M, General Mills and Siemens to some terrific smaller firms -- appreciated the opportunity to come together for some top-notch speakers and world-class networking. We've posted the first of the videos to come out of the Minneapolis event, my conversation with Best Buy's Neil McPhail covering, among other things, the future of home energy management and how the retailer plans to address customers' interest in clean technologies.

We're excited about bringing the event to New York for the first time. And apparently New York is excited, too: the event is sold out. Look for coverage this week on GreenBiz.com.

By the way, if you're around New York Monday night (tonight), come meet me at a GreenSpaces networking event, where I'll give an overview of the State of Green Business report and you can mingle with the local green business community. It would be great to see you there.

We look forward to having you tonight, Joel! Click here for the full story.