Blog of American Cultural Ambassadors David and Renate Jakupca of the International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) located at the Historic ARK in Berea.
International Center for Environmental Arts introduces Ethical Fashion for People & Activists:
"Standard Iceality Apparel"
Standard Iceality Humanitarian Apparel (Red Shirt)
The
International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) was founded by David
and Renate Jakupca in 1987 to meet the compelling needs of ordinary
citizens for access to current, balanced, understandable information
about complex global issues. It was formed to be as an umbrella organization having
three independent divisions, Environmental, Humanities and Arts and
Culture, each working together towards a common goal of building sustainable global Culture of Peace for all Living Things.
FASHION WEEK CLEVELAND / COLUMBUS
Fashion Week Cleveland is an annual fashion industry event held in Cleveland, Ohio which began in 2002. It is one of fourteen internationally-recognized fashion week events in North America. Fashion Week Cleveland is held during the first week of May. The event is the third-largest fashion show of its kind in the United States behind only New York Fashion Week and Los Angeles Fashion Week. As such, this event is recognized as the showcase for emerging American fashion designers.
"Ethical Fashion is a term to describe ethical fashion design,
production, retail, and purchasing. It covers a range of issues such as
working conditions, exploitation, fair trade, sustainable production,
the environment, and animal welfare", states Ambassador Renate.
The STANDARD ICEALITY APPAREL
guidelines by model/designerAmbassador Renate are a basic unisex Ethical Fashion
outfit for all Activists and People. It allows
people to join with others for the greater good, while sharing their
individual colors, organizations and causes in one complete fashion
statement - Red for Humanity, Black for Arts and Culture, Green for
Environment, White for Official Duties and introducing the NEW COLOR OF PEACE; PSYCHEDELIC!
Ambassador Renate is all for ethical fashion as it becomes accessible to everyone, and
by everyone, I mean the Public. But until then, it is a major task to
get everyone to think about what’s in their wardrobe. Ethical Fashion aims to address the problems it sees with the way the
fashion industry currently operates, such as exploitative labor,
environmental damage, the use of hazardous chemicals, waste, and animal
cruelty.
As a pioneer on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs ICEA tries to keep its members up on documents
companies typically post, but CSR brochures tend to be misleading — not with what is
written, but what is left out. Last year, June 17th 2012, just before all the presidents, prime ministers and
other world leaders meet in Rio de Janeiro to agree on a way forward for
sustainable development, the United Nations Global Compact hosted
the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum. Within more than 60 sessions
focused on key sustainability issues, there is one that, perhaps, you
would not normally expect: “Good Business Models for a Sustainable
Future” organized by the International Trade Centre’s Ethical Fashion
Initiative. The purpose of all this goes beyond letting some people with good
accessories vent for an afternoon. The stated aim of the session is to
produce a “roadmap” — free to use — to help big global fashion business
become more fair, more green, more inclusive yet never less chic. The
panel was led by Simone Cipriani, who chairs the Ethical Fashion
Initiative of the International Trade Centre (ITC), a United Nations Organization.
Some of the issues around Ethical Fashion
According to ICEA, Ethical Fashion aims to address the problems it sees with the way
the fashion industry currently operates, such as exploitative labor,
environmental damage, the use of hazardous chemicals, waste, and animal
cruelty.
Serious concerns are often raised about exploitative working
conditions in the factories that make cheap clothes for the high street.
Child workers, alongside exploited adults, can be subjected to
violence and abuse such as forced overtime, as well as cramped and
unhygienic surroundings, bad food, and very poor pay. The low cost of
clothes on the high street means that less and less money goes to the
people who actually make them.
Cotton provides much of the world's fabric, but growing it
uses 22.5% of the world's insecticides and 10% of the world's
pesticides, chemicals which can be dangerous for the environment and
harmful to the farmers who grow it. (Ethical Fashion Forum)
Current textile growing practices are considered unsustainable
because of the damage they do to the immediate environment. For
example, the Aral Sea in Central Asia has shrunk to just 15% of its
former volume, largely due to the vast quantity of water required for
cotton production and dying. (Ethical Fashion Forum)
Most textiles are treated with chemicals to soften and dye
them, however these chemicals can be toxic to the environment and can be
transferred to the skin of the people wearing them. Hazardous chemicals
used commonly in the textile industry are: lead, nickel, chromium IV,
aryl amines, phthalates and formaldehyde. (Greenpeace)
The low costs and disposable nature of high street fashion
means that much of it is destined for incinerators or landfill sites.
The UK alone throws away 1 million tonnes of clothing every year. (Waste
Online)
Many animals are farmed to supply fur for the fashion
industry, and many people feel that their welfare is an important part
of the Ethical Fashion debate. The designer Stella McCartney does not
use either fur or leather in her designs. In an advert for the animal
rights organization PETA, she said: 'we address... ethical or
ecological... questions in every other part of our lives except fashion.
Mind-sets are changing, though, which is encouraging.'
At the ARK in Berea, ICEA has become over the years a force for socially
responsible activity. ICEA's mission is the "Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts", that
is to "Assist in understanding of the relationship between Humans and
their Environment through Arts and Culture, ultimately promoting a sustainable
global Culture of Peace for all Living Things".
The International Center for Environmental Arts
(ICEA) is a place where people are encouraged to develop their own
unique individual skills and talents for themselves, their community,
nation and the world. The ARK in Berea as a retreat, provides a healthy
holistic environment to aid people in their social, emotional, physical,
intellectual, spiritual as well as artistic growth. Sustainable
business leadership training programs are available to corporate and
community organizations. Consultants and Speakers are available for all
topics relating to the Humanities, Arts, and the Environment.
Standard Iceality Environmental Apparel (Green Shirt)
Standard Iceality Official Apparel (White Shirt)
David Jakupca
Spiritual Father of the Environmental Arts Movement
American Cultural Ambassador
Founder of the International center for Environmental Arts (ICEA)
"Spiritual Father of Environmental Art" David Jakupca
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The Science Behind Environmental Arts:
THEORY OF ICEALITY ON ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS
The "Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts" is a practical
study on the aesthetics of the relationship between Humans and their
Environment through Arts and Culture, ultimately promoting an effective
sustainable global Culture of Peace between all Living Things ~ Human, Plant and Wildlife Kingdoms!* *The incorporation of the rights of flora and
fauna in a "Universal Peace Equation" is the first major change in
achieving a sustainable Peace on Earth in over 2000 Years.
At the ARK
in Berea, global home of the environmental arts movement, David Jakupca, states that, "The special Theory of Iceality belongs to a class of "principle-theories". As
such it employs an analytic method. This means that the three elements which
comprise this theory, Humanitarian, Environmental, Arts and Culture, are not
based on hypothesis but on empirical discovery. The empirical discovery leads
to understanding the general characteristics of natural processes".
The general natural processes are all connected. As stated above, the special 'Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts' explains the application to all inertial physical phenomena and its relation to all other forces of nature.
Practical models can then be developed which
separate the natural processes into theoretical-mathematical descriptions.
Therefore, by analytical means the necessary conditions that have to be
satisfied are deduced. Separate events must satisfy these conditions.
Experience should then match the conclusions. Although it is widely acknowledged that American
Cultural Ambassadors David and Renate Jakupca created the principles of the Theory of
Iceality in its modern understanding in 1977, They are also responsible for
enlightening the global art community to the new genre of Art when they founded the International Center
for Environmental Arts (ICEA) in 1987 at the now historic ARK
in Berea , Ohio. ICEA was organized into the three
divisions: Environmental, Humanities, Arts and Culture, and as
the first professional art organization to be solely dedicated to this
endeavor, this has made ICEA to be the leading force in the Environmental arts
and a force for socially responsible activity.
According to Jakupca, beginning with ICEA, the
Environmental Arts Genre has grown professionally exponentially and has over the past decades spawned a wide variety of
very similar phrases and art terms such as; eco art, urban art and design, land art, ecoventions,
natural art, green art, outdoor art, earth art, recycled art, sustainable art,
ecodedsign, etc. These can be all be considered sub-categories under the
umbrella of the main Environmental Art Genre.
Jakupca asserts that, "Respect for human and environmental rights
and greater understanding between people from different racial and religious
backgrounds must be the first goal of society in today's fast-changing, globalized
world." The goal is accomplished according to Jakupca, "Is by
focusing on the creative process and affirming that the "Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts"is a
catalyst for social change by empowering participants, transforming
environments and contributing to collective healing and economic development."
Jakupca's Theory on Environmental Arts (ICEALITY*) was enthusiastically
embraced by the United Nations by 1990 and was featured in many of their World
Conferences;
1- 1992 Earth Summit on the Environment, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
2- 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, Austria
3- 1994 World Conference on Population and Development,
Cairo, Egypt
4- 1995 World Conference on Women, Beijing, China
5- 1996 Habitat II- UN Conference on Human Settlements,
Istanbul, Turkey
6- 2000 World's Fair, Expo2000, Hannover, Germany
7- 2001 World Conference on Racism, Durban, South Africa
8- 2002 World Summit on Sustainability, Johannesburg, South
Africa
9- 2003 World Conference on Peace, Verbania, Italy
10- 2005 World Conference on Peace, Verbania, Italy 11- 2007 World Peace Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The result of this major global public promotion at the United Nations level,
is that the Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts is now considered as the
cornerstone of the modern sustainable global Environmental Art Movement and
this concept is now replicated by artists, architects,
urban planners and sustainable organizations throughout the World, reflecting a still growing global audience. However, it must be noted that not all of Jakupca's
contemporaries did accepted the new theory at once.
RESEARCH FINDINGS
Results for Comparable Artworks and Artist History of David Jakupca
David Jakupca is an American Philosopher,
Ambassador, Artist, Activist and Author. He serves both as an American
Cultural Ambassador and Universal Peace Ambassador in International
capacities. He is extremely influential through his works, especially as
a philosophical advocate and practitioner of the environmental arts
methods developing the Sustainable Age revolution.
Jakupca with his wife, Renate, are the co-creators of the 'Theory of
Iceality on Environmental Arts', aligning the vision with real-world
social conditions and logistics. This work established and popularized
inductive formulas for scientific inquiry, sometimes called the Iceality
Method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things
natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework
for the science of aesthetics, much of which surrounds conceptions of
proper Environmental Art Methodology today.
Jakupca has been recognized as the 'Spiritual Father of the
Environmental Arts Movement' and in that capacity, several disciples of
his work went on to spread the word on Iceality. His ideas were
influential in the 1990's among scholars like Jane Alexander, Chairwoman
of the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), who in the ‘AMERICAN
CANVAS’ Project frequently adheres to the Method of Iceality approach in
its idealistic visions and entrepreneurial inquiries. Major
organizations, in particular, the United Nations, featured his Theory on
Iceality in many of their World Conferences. The result of this major
global public promotion at the United Nations level is that the Theory
of Iceality on Environmental Arts is now considered as the cornerstone
of the modern sustainable global Environmental Art Movement, and this
concept is now replicated by artists, architects, urban planners and
sustainable organizations throughout the World, reflecting a still
growing global audience. However, it must be noted that not all of
Jakupca's contemporaries did accept the new theory at once.
David Jakupca is also considered to be the philosophical influence
behind the dawning of the millenniums Sustainable Age. In his works,
David Jakupca called for a development of avant-garde trilateral
symmetry of social systems to align his vision with real-world social
conditions and logistics that contend with the problems facing earth’s
future. He always proposed that these environment/humanitarian/cultural
systems should be done in conjunction with charitable purposes as a
matter of healing this planet. Recalling Einstein’s admonition,
paraphrased here, that a problem cannot be solved by the same thinking
that created the problem in the first place, Jakupca, being ever mindful
of the ecospheric integrity, advocated that the Environmental Arts
should be practical and have as a holistic purpose the improvement of
all living things.
This changed the course of art in history, from a merely contemplative
state, as it was found in ancient times, to a practical, inventive
modern state that will, it time, continue to lead to the new Methods of
Iceality that will prevent Ecocide and make possible a Sustainable Age,
a Culture of Peace for all Living Things in the following centuries.
Although much of these Methods of Iceality proposals will not be
established in his lifetime, his legacy was already considered by TIME
Magazine, in their 2000 Millennium Edition, as one of their Heroes of
the Planet.
Similar to a Cultural District with the historic ARK in Berea as its
focal point, the North East Ohio Area where David worked, has been
'branded' as the Home of the Environmental Art(s) Movement by the
International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) and as 'Cultural
Industry' will continue to foster civic identity, cultivate tourism, and
brand Ohio Environmental Arts and Culture in the Bioregion.
For as one of his profilers, India Keyes commented, Jakupca's influence
in the future world is so important that every person, plant or animal
well being may be traced back to him. It is possible that someone using
the Methodology of Iceality may find the cause of cancer, solve the
worlds hunger problem or eliminate global warming.
David Jakupca’s philosophy in Art is displayed in his vast and varied
art works and writings, which might be divided into the three great
branches of the 'Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts':
~ Environmental works – in which his ideas for a universal reform of
knowledge, scientific method and the improvement of a sustainable state
of Peace for all living things is presented.
~ Humanitarian works – in which his reforms in moral philosophy and social practices for Mankind are proposed.
~ Artistic works – in which he presents his original applied aesthetics on art and cultural objet d’arts.
Ambassador David Jakupca has been
recognized as the 'Spiritual Father of the Environmental Arts Movement'
and in that capacity, several disciples of his work went on to spread
the word on Iceality. His ideas were influential in the 1990's among
scholars like Jane Alexander, Chairwoman of the National Endowment of
the Arts (NEA), who in the ‘AMERICAN CANVAS’ Project frequently adheres
to the Method of Iceality approach in its idealistic visions and
entrepreneurial inquiries.
Some Examples of Major Organizations utilizing the Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts Principles
EXPO 2000 From June 1st to October 31st, 2000, Hannover (Germany) hosts the World
Exposition EXPO 2000. The exposition stands under the theme "Humankind
- Nature - Technology: A new world arising".
About 180 countries and organizations participate in this event. David and Renate Jakupca were appointed American Cultural Ambassadors representing the United States, more
than 50 countries have build their own pavilion, the remainder are presenting
in exhibition halls. The exposition is accompanied by a cultural and events
program. Have a look at www.expo2000.de
for more details about the EXPO 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2000 http://www.expo2000.org/index1.php TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set
of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation,
formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading." From 1990 onward, a growing community of "TEDsters" has been gathering annually at the invitation-only event in Monterey, California, until 2009, when it was relocated to Long Beach, California due to a substantial increase in attendees.http://www.ted.com BIONEERS The whole-systems movement for social, cultural and environmental resilience
HUMANE EDUCATION ADVOCATES REACHING TEACHERS (HEART’s) services are specially designed to provide a combined focus on human rights, animal protection and environmental ethics. Our direct services to educators and students, as well as our city and state level advocacy efforts, enable us to significantly impact the way young people think about their responsibility to one another, animals and the natural world. http://teachhumane.org/heart/ The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a unique global
network founded in 2010 of policy research centers in Russia, China, Europe, the Middle
East, and the United States. http://CarnegieEndowment.org National Peace Academy
A Holistic Approach: Five Interrelated Spheres of Peace http://nationalpeaceacademy.us/ UN Proposes New Architecture for Sustainable Development.
At the United Nations Rio+20 Earth Summit in 2012, 192 countries agreed to create a set of universal Sustainable Development Goals. A United Nations working group negotiates a set of “sustainable development goals,” proposed a fundamentally different way to frame this concept.Over the last several decades, sustainable human development has been conceived largely as the outcome of balanced work on three “pillars” .
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/scientists-propose-a-new-architecture-for-sustainable-development. Rio+20 Earth Summit - United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
http://www.uncsd2012.org/
*Iceality
is the measure of the connection between arts, civic engagement and
the environment, which can be defined as promoting a sustainable
positive and peaceful quality of life for all living things.
In
a historic re-unification if the Greater Cleveland Community, as part
of the Iceality Silver Revelation, North East Ohio Area has been
'branded' as the Home of the Environmental Art(s) Movement by the
International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) as a 'Cultural
Industry', to foster civic identity, cultivate tourism, and brand Ohio
Environmental Arts and Culture District in the Bioregion.
BACKGROUND CHECK by Christa Herbert:
-- The Environmental Arts
Movement was professionally organized by the The International Center for Environmental Arts
(ICEA) founded by David and Renate Jakupca in 1987.
-- Environmental Art is the true indigenous art form of the greater Cleveland, Ohio area.
-- The ARK in Berea is the global home to the Environmental Art Movement.
-- The 'Theory of Iceality on Environmental Arts' is now considered as the cornerstone of the
modern sustainable global Environmental Art Movement and the concept is
now replicated by urban designers, architects and artists throughout
the World.
-- In 1993 in Vienna, Austria at the World Conference on Human Rights,
ICEA, with the approval of U.S. Delegates, Jimmy Carter and Geraldine
Ferraro, began recycling and promoting United Nations' World
Conferences until 2007..
-- Through this partnership with the United Nations, ICEA has influenced a global audience of literally billions of people.
-- Environmental Art was used by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of their 1997 American Canvas Project that is currently used in all 50 States.
-- In 2000, David and Renate
Jakupca were appointed American Cultural Ambassadors representing the US
at EXPO2000, The Worlds Fair held in Hanover, Germany.
-- Environmental Art the number one Art Movement in Cleveland, Ohio
-- Environmental Art is the number one Art Movement in America.
-- Environmental Art is the number one Art Movement Worldwide.
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