J. Domènech 
Lovers of botanical art will be delighted by the “Illustrated Manual of Medical Plants” from Iwasaki Kan’en (1786−1842), is considered the first full-scale botanical art book in Japan. It was published in the late Edo period and comprises 92 volumes with more than 1,900 varieties of plants. It is one of the resources available in …
“Sometimes you have to jump headfirst and people help you along the way”, the sentence come from the movie “El Olivo”, (“The Olive”, available only in spanish) a fictional story by Iciar Bollaín that approaches the environmental issue in which he portrays the real estate bubble , the rush and corruption of the Spanish Mediterranean …
The list of vascular flora in Catalonia comprises approximately 3,600 autochthonous species and subspecies. According to the sources consulted between 7% and 11% of the plants are threatened. The extinction of 17 plants is confirmed and it is estimated that 37 species of the 109 classified in danger of extinction, could disappear in a short …
Rightly involved in a project to put Art at the service of a cause, “Artivism, the power of artistic languages for political communication and activism”, by Antoni Gutiérrez Rubí, falls into our hands, which perhaps does not seem to have much to see, but that also speaks of similarity: transmitting the need for specific policies, …