Projects tagged
Natural Resources & Energy
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Power Call
Read more: Power CallPower Call is a nomadic, interactive energy commons in San Francisco to the Bay Area. Using low-tech systems, Power Call harnesses, stores and dispenses energy for recharging a variety of cell phones. Anyone can contribute to the energy commons by…
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The Comfort Illusion
Read more: The Comfort IllusionThe Comfort Illusion is a solo aural performance that highlights the effects our everyday actions can have on the environment. Through mixed media storytelling using sound and lighting, Adams narrates the life of “The Overkiller” a fictional villian who negatively…
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Rattlin’ Bog Flash Mob
Read more: Rattlin’ Bog Flash MobA This flash mob was designed to deliver a message to raise awareness and deepen understanding about the immediacy of the climate change problem. By subverting the lyrics of the Rattlin’ Bog, we appealed through music to the hearts of…
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How do you get to Flushing Creek?
Read more: How do you get to Flushing Creek?Flushing Creek is so hidden by industrial sites and highways, it’s almost invisible to those passing through the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. “I lived in Flushing my whole life and didn’t know that I lived near waterways until I was…
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Water Bar
Read more: Water BarNortheast Minneapolis is going to have the first full-fledged water bar of its kind, an establishment where you can sit and drink a variety of local tap waters to your heart’s content. Their delightful motto: “Water is all we have.”…
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Support for birds in Skopje
Read more: Support for birds in SkopjeAnonymous urban artists set up art installations, large nest eggs, at several locations in Skopje, wanting to alarm the growing number of trees in the city. In the nest read a message “You cut all the trees, where do we…
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The Oil Enforcement Agency
Read more: The Oil Enforcement Agency“In 2006 members from a coalition of environmental groups posed as a government agency—the Oil Enforcement Agency—that should have existed, but didn’t. Complete with SWAT-team-like caps and badges, agents ticketed SUVs, impounded fuel-inefficient vehicles at auto shows, and generally modeled…
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Ottawa Eel Walk
Read more: Ottawa Eel Walk“Around 30 people gathered on Victoria Island Monday morning to advocate for the return of the endangered American Eel to the Ottawa River. The event mixed art with activism, with attendees carrying windsocks decorated to look like as eels as…
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The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine Ridge
Read more: The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine RidgePine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the Oglala Lakota, designated as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. This land and its people have endured many tragedies at the hands of the United States government. Over 500 treaties negotiated in…
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Black Superheroes Matter
Read more: Black Superheroes MatterWatch Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, and you’ll see a charismatic character who fills a void in the conflicted do-gooder group. This T’Challa is accessible, awe-inspiring and perhaps most importantly, human. “I think the question that…