Projects tagged
Environment
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Speaking out against air pollution through Smog Art
Read more: Speaking out against air pollution through Smog ArtThe action art performance themed “War on smog, we are taking action” was held by some environmental activists and volunteers on the commercial center and famous tourist spot Yangren Jie (Foreigners’ Street) in Nanan district, Chongqing municipality in Southwest China…
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How Bali punks Navicula took on the palm oil industry
Read more: How Bali punks Navicula took on the palm oil industryIn Indonesia, a loud and politically committed generation of punk bands are shaking big business – and getting results The briefing took place in a small commercial office in Jakarta, with no insulation from the heat, smog or noise of…
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“Reject and Protect” actions against Keystone XL pipeline in U.S.
Read more: “Reject and Protect” actions against Keystone XL pipeline in U.S.The Cowboy and Indian Alliance, a coalition of indigenous tribes, ranchers, farmers, stages a protest named “Reject and Protect” against the Keystone XL oil pipeline project along the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route, as a part of series of…
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10:10
Read more: 10:10Environmental activist Franny Armstrong’s brainwave came as she was walking to a debate with the then Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband. She had read a report saying that the developed world must cut its carbon…
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The Green Belt Movement
Read more: The Green Belt MovementThe Green Belt Movement (GBM) was founded by Professor Wangari Maathai in 1977 under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK) to respond to the needs of rural Kenyan women who reported that their streams were…
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Uncle Sam’s Cultural Dissonance
Read more: Uncle Sam’s Cultural DissonanceUncle Sam’s Cultural Dissonance looks at the issues facing The United States, including Canada and Mexico. In countries like the United States, where some states are dotted with countless lakes and many people live within easy reach of an ocean,…
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Insane PR Circus Rocks Holland—But It’s Not that Polar Bear Thing
Read more: Insane PR Circus Rocks Holland—But It’s Not that Polar Bear ThingWhat seemed to be a cruel and bizarre PR campaign took over Amsterdam yesterday as a barge with an apparently drugged polar bear, a Russian child superstar, and a colorful marching band wound through Amsterdam’s canals to the city zoo.…
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Film and Video Games: A Docugame
Read more: Film and Video Games: A DocugameFROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: ” While filming a documentary about divisive oil refinery ventures in the subzero cold of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the director David Dufresne said he wasn’t considering only pollution in that Canadian boomtown or the vast…
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MobileMuster
Read more: MobileMusterAustralian recycling initiative MobileMuster, a free mobile phone recycling program that accepts all brands and types of mobile phones, teamed up with artist Chris Jordan and college students from Melbourne, Australia to create a public installation. The installation, which is…
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Detox Catwalk
Read more: Detox CatwalkIs your favorite apparel brand a fashion trendsetter, greenwasher, or laggard? Find out by taking a spin on Greenpeace International’s “Detox Catwalk” . Unveiled Thursday, the interactive online platform examines which companies are “walking the talk” to a toxic-free future.…