Projects tagged
Environment
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A Homeless Polar Bear In London
Read more: A Homeless Polar Bear In LondonWith Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place” as the soundscape, Jude Law narrates in this powerfully sad little video clip created in collaboration with Greenpeace. Please visit savethearctic.org and sign the petition. External sources: http://savethearctic.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpF04nximI
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The Grim Reapers
Read more: The Grim ReapersThe Grim Reapers stood outside the capital building of the State of Washington as the new Governor Jay Inslee was being inaugurated. We were part of a climate change rally that lasted several hours and included many other groups protesting…
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ANZ is Out of Order Campaign – Grassroots action against ANZ Bank in Australia
Read more: ANZ is Out of Order Campaign – Grassroots action against ANZ Bank in AustraliaOn the 6th February 2013, 40 activists across 6 states plastered 110 ANZ ATMs with ‘Out of Order’ notices, sharing them on social media the following day. The objective was to use a hoax style action to exploit mainstream media…
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Reverse Graffiti
Read more: Reverse GraffitiReverse graffiti is form of street art that involves carving into the dirt and dust that surrounds us. Artists subtract from a surface in order to create a negative image within the positive, often quite dark layer of grime. They…
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Lixo Extraordinário
Read more: Lixo ExtraordinárioOver the course of 3 years, from 2006 until 2009, the production team behind the film Wasteland (2010), also known as “Lixo Extraordinário” followed Brazilian, Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist, Vik Muniz, as he traveled back to Brazil to create self portraits…
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“Human Cost” Oily Protest at the Tate
Read more: “Human Cost” Oily Protest at the TateOn the one-year anniversary of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, artist-activists at Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla performance in the Tate Britain galleries to highlight the museum’s ties to BP. The peformance: “A naked member…
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Water Is Life
Read more: Water Is LifeThe Overpass Light Brigade (Milwaukee, WI), has been working with Idle No More (WI) in order to give visibility to the cultural and environmental costs of opening up Northern Wisconsin to iron mining. The proposal will soon be voted on…
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Julia Butterfly Hill and Her Tree sit in Luna
Read more: Julia Butterfly Hill and Her Tree sit in LunaForest activist and environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill spent two years (Dec. 10, 1997-Dec. 18, 1999) living 180 feet high, on two six-by-six-foot platforms, in the canopy of a thousand-year-old redwood tree named Luna to help make the world aware of…
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Tree Felling in Bialowieza Forest
Read more: Tree Felling in Bialowieza ForestGreenpeace advocates displayed a banner outside of the Ministry of the Environment in Warsaw. The banner reads “I love primeval forests” to protest against tree felling in Bialowieza Forest. Protesters dressed as construction workers wearing hard hats and scaling the…
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Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling Protesters
Read more: Davos Shell Station Shut Down By Arctic Oil Drilling ProtestersDAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Activists with a big fake polar bear have occupied a Shell service station in the Swiss resort of Davos to protest Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s oil drilling in the Arctic. About 25 activists from around Europe…