The U.S. Chamber of Commerce may still be debating whether the planet has a carbon problem, but The Energy Project, a parternship between ECHO Science Center and Burlington City Arts, is plunging ahead by imagining a low-carbon tomorrow. It's not some post-apocalyptic nightmare, though -- they're doing it with an art exhibit at the Firehouse Gallery on Church Street in Burlington, seeking to, as they say, "explore the future of the Vermont landscape as it grapples with the aesthetic challenges of a carbon-constrained world."

It's called the Human=Landscape exhibit. Check it out, and see some artistic answers to questions like 'What makes a landscape “beautiful” or “ugly”? What might a sustainable-energy rural landscape of 2020 look like?' It's certainly a refreshing break from tackling these questions with spreadsheets and GIS maps. And it could help us think big about actively creating a future landscape we want to live in.

 The exhibit runs August 14–October 24, 2009

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