A number of globes are lined up along the Tremont Street side of the
Boston Common as part of the “Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler
Planet” exhibit.
By Cate McQuaid
Globe Correspondent
August 15, 2013
Huge, colorful orbs (click here) line up in a row down the Tremont Street side of Boston Common. It looks like a giant might be marshalling his marbles. Get up close, and you’ll see that the spheres, each 5 feet in diameter, are globes, fancifully decorated and proffering solutions to climate change.
“Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet” has landed in Boston. The public art project, for which artists designed globes with green strategies to contend with environmental issues, originated in Chicago in 2007 and has traveled the world. The globes, 48 in all, can be found at sites such as the Esplanade, Copley Square, and Logan Airport. The Common is globe central, with 26.
“It’s hard to use the words ‘global warming’ and ‘fun’ in the same sentence,” said environmental activist and “Cool Globes” founder Wendy Abrams. “We manage to do that.”
Huge, colorful orbs (click here) line up in a row down the Tremont Street side of Boston Common. It looks like a giant might be marshalling his marbles. Get up close, and you’ll see that the spheres, each 5 feet in diameter, are globes, fancifully decorated and proffering solutions to climate change.
“Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet” has landed in Boston. The public art project, for which artists designed globes with green strategies to contend with environmental issues, originated in Chicago in 2007 and has traveled the world. The globes, 48 in all, can be found at sites such as the Esplanade, Copley Square, and Logan Airport. The Common is globe central, with 26.
“It’s hard to use the words ‘global warming’ and ‘fun’ in the same sentence,” said environmental activist and “Cool Globes” founder Wendy Abrams. “We manage to do that.”
Abrams cites two inspirations for the
project: the wrecked cars that Mothers Against Drunk Driving pointedly
deploy in their Crash Car Program, and the painted cow sculptures that
showed up in the streets of Chicago in 1999 — a public art project that
prompted Boston to follow suit with painted cod....
