Projects tagged
Environment
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Fake Drone Crash on UCSD Campus
Read more: Fake Drone Crash on UCSD CampusStudents at the University of California-San Diego were surprised when an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, commonly referred to as a drone, crashed in the middle of campus — or at least they thought that’s what happened. A photo of a drone…
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Balls Across America
Read more: Balls Across AmericaThe Survivaball made its first appearance in 2006, when “Halliburton representatives” attended a conference on catastrophic climate change and demonstrated the functionality of the large inflatable suits (“a gated community for one”), which keep corporate managers safe from global warming.…
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Cheat Neutral
Read more: Cheat NeutralCheat Neutral satirizes the carbon offset model by offering people the opportunity to pay someone else not to cheat on their partner in order to neutralize their own infidelity. Cheatneutral allows you to pay £2.50 to carry on cheating while…
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GM Announces Climate Commitment
Read more: GM Announces Climate CommitmentConcerned Citizens impersonated LA Autoshow hosts, interrupting a keynote speech from the General Motors’ CEO. They present a pledge on behalf of GM, committing in writing to becoming an leader in fuel efficiency, and to follow through on all the…
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Singing Disrupts Oil Auction
Read more: Singing Disrupts Oil AuctionUtah environmentalists infiltrated a federal oil-and-gas lease auction and refused to stop singing until they were escorted out. Environmental writer Terry Tempest Williams purchased development rights on a small stretch of land at the same auction, to bring attention to…
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Ace Bank
Read more: Ace BankACE Bank was a hoax bank developed as part of a bigger campaign by Netwerk Vlaanderen, a Belgian organization concerned with banks’ responsibilities for what they invest in. ACE bank was an elaborate deception, with a headquarters in central Brussels,…
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Range Studio
Read more: Range StudioThe project consists of a small mobile workspace and a micro artist residency program composed by two tiny art studios founded in Oakland. Studio 1 is a solar powered art studio which was built on the back of a flatbed…
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BeeCare Amsterdam
Read more: BeeCare AmsterdamThe survival of bees in the world is threatened and the extinction of bees is a serious threat to the human race too. Over the past few years, it seems that bees have a greater chance of survival in cities…
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Green Corners
Read more: Green CornersThe project focuses on creating green spaces as effective elements which ameliorate air quality absorbing chemicals from the atmosphere. In order to develop an alternative pedagogical approach into Tehran’s public schools, the initiator, in close collaboration with the botanist Shahrouz…
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Western Flag (Spingletop,Texas) 2017
Read more: Western Flag (Spingletop,Texas) 2017Western Flag depicts the site of the ‘Lucas Gusher’ – the world’s first major oil find – in Spindletop, Texas in 1901, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation the center of which is marked…