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Climate Change
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Jane Fonda joined TikTok and announced the launch of virtual Fire Drill Friday climate rallies
Read more: Jane Fonda joined TikTok and announced the launch of virtual Fire Drill Friday climate ralliesThis is not a drill: Jane Fonda has officially joined TikTok. On Thursday night, the 82-year-old actress and activist posted her first video to the app TikTok and announced that she would be reviving her legendary home workouts to help…
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Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan
Read more: Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a PlanThe coronavirus outbreak has prompted climate activists to abandon public demonstrations, one of their most powerful tools for raising public awareness, and shift to online protests. This week, for example, organizers of the Fridays for Future protests are advising people…
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#TeamTrees
Read more: #TeamTreesWhen And Where Will #TeamTrees Plant 21.5 Million Crowdfunded Trees? Two months after reaching one of the most ambitious crowdfunding goals in YouTube history, #TeamTrees is getting closer to delivering on behalf of its 800,000+ unique donors. According to a…
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Arcadia Earth
Read more: Arcadia EarthAt ‘Arcadia Earth,’ Dazzle Illuminates Danger Using augmented reality, virtual reality and installations of light and art, the creators of this pop-up exhibition hope to inspire action on climate change. By Laurel Graeber Oct. 23, 2019 The creators of “Arcadia…
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Ice Sculpture Steals Show at U.K. Climate Debate
Read more: Ice Sculpture Steals Show at U.K. Climate DebateFive leaders of British political parties called for dramatic action to confront climate change in a televised debate on Thursday, just two weeks before the country’s general election. A melting ice sculpture stole the show. The sculpture stood in for…
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Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)
Read more: Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher, along with his church group, was protesting outside a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah’s red rock country. Tim decided to take his protest…
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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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Plastic Waste
Read more: Plastic WasteThe political artist I chose to investigate is Ruth Peche, a Spanish sculptor and photographer. Her themes tend to center around plastic waste and the impact it has on the environment, using this as a muse for describing the relationship…
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Seed Action Cork
Read more: Seed Action CorkAs part of the Creativity and Change postgrad course,(www.creativityandchange.ie) we created a street action. It was designed to raise awareness about climate change, and promote Climate Case Ireland, while also inspiring people to think of visions for the future and…
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Game of Floods
Read more: Game of FloodsMarin County’s “Game of Floods” teaches citizens how to make tough decisions for the future. Super-high king tides hammered homes and roads in Marin County, California this past winter, and residents can expect worse as rising seas threaten to super-soak…