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pollution
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This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic Pollution
Read more: This Artist Captured the Non-Stop Flow of Plastic PollutionBenjamin Von Wong’s latest art-as-activism installation looks like something Photoshopped onto reality. A large brass-looking faucet, suspended in the air, pours a river of plastic out of its spout. The symbolism of the #TurnOffThePlasticTap installation is somehow both over-the-top and…
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Turtle Island
Read more: Turtle IslandThe inspiration for the creation was the Common Snapping Turtle. A big shout-out to local member, Kristin Rubin and local college students, Sarah Lockhart and Alanis Gonzalez, for their assistance in the construction of the artwork. The display of Turtle…
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Ella Daish’s Giant Tampon
Read more: Ella Daish’s Giant TamponEnvironmental activist Ella Daish has created a giant tampon applicator as part of a protest against single-use plastic. The piece is made out of period plastic found polluting beaches, waterways, and local ecosystems in the UK. Daish sourced 1,200 applicators…
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Kodaikanal Won’t video: All you need to know about the Unilever mercury dumping case
Read more: Kodaikanal Won’t video: All you need to know about the Unilever mercury dumping caseThe Kodaikanal Won’t video by Chennai artist Sofia Ashraf, asking Unilver to ‘clean up their mess’ in connection with the Kodaikanal mercury dumping, has gone viral with over 783,533 views at the time of writing this, in just over two…
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Lyrical Thirst
Read more: Lyrical ThirstWithout water, life would not exist. And yet, those of us in developed countries take it for granted; our shelves are stocked with hundreds of branded bottles, and it is freely given at restaurants, at schools, and even in parks.…
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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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Ossario: Reverse Graffiti
Read more: Ossario: Reverse GraffitiVisual artist Alexandre Orion removes soot in an artful manner to produce skulls in the tunnels of the polluted city of Sao Paulo. Orion does so in an attempt to create intervention, raise awarenes, and decrease pollution. “From the ocular…