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G-Cubes-art ecology & education together |
What's been happening..
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New G-Cubes base in Cartagena, Colombia Congratulations to Andres Linares, co-founder of G-Cubes association and new director of the Art Center La Presentacion. Together with GAM he will produce 300 cubes for the end show proceeding our educational approach. |
Reportage
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Current position
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As part of the World ARC, G-Cube will sail once around the world on the yacht 'O’Deline'
(2005 Beneteau Oceanis 473 Commodore Performance). |
The Route
'30,000 nautical miles around the world'
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Harald Reichenbach
President G-Cubes Association
Nowadays we talk a lot about waste in the sea; ‘Plastic waste, plastic islands, micro-plastic, food chain, recycling’ and many more are key words of our time. The twenty-one year old,Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Zlat, wants to clean the oceans. An enormous task if you consider that each year between 4.8 and 12.7 million tons of plastic waste land in the oceans, as a study by Jambeck JR (and others, 2010) estimates.
Like Boyan Zlat and other environmental organisations, the association G-Cubes is committed to the cleaning of the oceans. With the project we want to make a contribution, which promotes a solution to the global waste problem. The possibilities to mobilise the world population to such measures are far from exhausted. To get the problem under control, more than just awareness is needed. It takes money to deal with such an economic and environmental challenge. G-Cubes bridges art and ecology. We want to raise money through art, then use those funds to promote projects which conduct a sustainable long- term waste management.
G-Cubes is also a great adventure. The last year we sailed from Marseille to Australia (18'000 nautical miles). It will need another year to go back to Marseille via Asia. The realisation of this circumnavigation of the globe is a challenge and to use the ship as transportation, habitat, workshop and storeroom, requires great logistical effort. We are willing to accept these challenges and see the success of G-Cubes in a broad based network.
Help us to realise a sustainable, visionary project.
Harald Reichenbach
Like Boyan Zlat and other environmental organisations, the association G-Cubes is committed to the cleaning of the oceans. With the project we want to make a contribution, which promotes a solution to the global waste problem. The possibilities to mobilise the world population to such measures are far from exhausted. To get the problem under control, more than just awareness is needed. It takes money to deal with such an economic and environmental challenge. G-Cubes bridges art and ecology. We want to raise money through art, then use those funds to promote projects which conduct a sustainable long- term waste management.
G-Cubes is also a great adventure. The last year we sailed from Marseille to Australia (18'000 nautical miles). It will need another year to go back to Marseille via Asia. The realisation of this circumnavigation of the globe is a challenge and to use the ship as transportation, habitat, workshop and storeroom, requires great logistical effort. We are willing to accept these challenges and see the success of G-Cubes in a broad based network.
Help us to realise a sustainable, visionary project.
Harald Reichenbach