Projects tagged
Environment
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Chipko Movement
Read more: Chipko MovementThe forests of India are a critical resource for the subsistence of rural peoples throughout the country, but especially in hill and mountain areas, both because of their direct provision of food, fuel and fodder and because of their role…
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Concrete Creek
Read more: Concrete CreekUtilizing excess construction cement that was being dumped into a creek near Beit Shemesh, Israel, Shai Zakai harnessed the unclaimed cement to create an art installation that brought awareness to the ongoing pollution. The project was entitled, ‘Concrete Creek’ aimed…
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Welcome to the Cantareira Desert
Read more: Welcome to the Cantareira DesertA grey minivan rattled through São Paulo’s hilly suburbs, loaded with spray cans, paint rollers, buckets and a ladder as five street artists drove to the Atibainha river, rap lyrics blaring from their speakers. On the sweltering afternoon of 26…
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Eco-Music Big Band
Read more: Eco-Music Big Band“Writing Political Music in Today’s World” I began studying composition with Fred Ho without knowing quite what I was getting myself into. I was 25 with a fresh graduate degree in composition under my belt, lost in that special way…
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Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artist
Read more: Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artistBy a pond inside one of the entrances to Beijing’s Chaoyang Park lies a cluster of one and two storey red pyramid-shaped buildings. Sculptures of Gandhi and Lincoln and other famous figures sit in the quiet woods nearby. This is…
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The Crossroads Project
Read more: The Crossroads ProjectThis month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…
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Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of China
Read more: Chinese Air Quality Images Exhibition: The Breath of ChinaThe Breath of China is a thematic photo exhibition of thousands of air-quality images taken by 44 photographers in 34 Chinese capital cities. The exhibition was displayed on the 14th Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIPF) in Shanxi Province, from September…
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Dystopian Noah’s ark reflects China’s environmental woes
Read more: Dystopian Noah’s ark reflects China’s environmental woesA dilapidated wooden fishing boat laden down with animals who are just skin and bone, a sort of dystopian Noah’s ark trying to escape the end of the earth and an empty city devoid of human life that has been…
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Projeto Prancha Ecologica: surfboards made with plastic bottles
Read more: Projeto Prancha Ecologica: surfboards made with plastic bottlesAll those who practice surfing know firsthand the serious problem our beaches face: pollution. While some only complain, others do something about it. Two Brazilian surfers decided they could help raise public awareness of the need to protect nature of…
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The Bread Tank
Read more: The Bread TankAt Rio+20 we present a bread tank with a garden inside to underline the realistic possibility of eradicating hunger and extreme poverty by redirecting military spending. In 2011 global military spending amounted to $1.74 trillion – despite the fact that…