moonscapes

During the past ten years, in fact, mountaintops all across Appalachia have been blowing up one after another, creating rock-strewn "moonscapes" which now include more square miles than those contained in the entire State of Delaware.

Don Soeken: As U.S. Energy Companies Blow-Up Appalachian Mountaintops, the Nation's Lawmakers Yawn With Indifference Don Soeken 2011

His latest curatorial venture is a show of four artists – Emma Coleman, Tom Pounder, Edward Todd, and Aleksandra Wojcik – who've all been featured in his art mag The Rebel, each showing four pieces of work, ranging from Coleman's paintings of women recalling Otto Dix flappers to Wojcik's photos, which cast Greenwich building sites as sci-fi moonscapes.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

During the past ten years, in fact, mountaintops all across Appalachia have been blowing up one after another, creating rock-strewn "moonscapes" which now include more square miles than those contained in the entire State of Delaware.

Don Soeken: As U.S. Energy Companies Blow-Up Appalachian Mountaintops, the Nation's Lawmakers Yawn With Indifference Don Soeken 2011

During the past ten years, in fact, mountaintops all across Appalachia have been blowing up one after another, creating rock-strewn "moonscapes" which now include more square miles than those contained in the entire State of Delaware.

Don Soeken: As U.S. Energy Companies Blow-Up Appalachian Mountaintops, the Nation's Lawmakers Yawn With Indifference Don Soeken 2011

Yet in 'Crazy From the Heat' University of Texas, 192 pages, $55, James H. Evans shows off how beautiful the Big Bend's arid moonscapes can be, in their own gruff way.

Photo-Op: Big Bender 2011

But their extraction and processing, like all mining, have environmental costs -- such as the creation of moonscapes, tailing ponds and toxic-waste streams, to name a few.

Bill Chameides: A Cloud in Every Silver Lining: The New Obstacle to a Green-Tech Revolution 2010

But their extraction and processing, like all mining, have environmental costs -- such as the creation of moonscapes, tailing ponds and toxic-waste streams, to name a few.

A Cloud in Every Silver Lining: The New Obstacle to a Green-Tech Revolution 2010

The practice turns rolling mountains and valleys into flat, desolate moonscapes.

Mark Engler: Climate Disobedience: Is a New "Seattle" in the Making? 2009

Jungles die, arklighted moonscapes of red cratered earth hold the sweating, sex-ridged grenadier as his hard, young flesh pounds her cool brown body.

Fuck with death....again. 2009

To date, some 500 Appalachian peaks have been flattened by this extreme strip mining, leaving behind scarred moonscapes, polluted water and shell-shocked communities.

Rob Perks: Music Stars on Mountaintop Removal: Keep the 'Country' in Country Music 2009